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Without inactivity, Floyd Mayweather would be the P4P best

Phil D. Jay 
WBN Editor
‘Money’ still top dog in the boxing world

With my own pound for pound rankings showing Filipino’s Manny Pacquiao and Nonito Donaire at number one and number two respectively, it makes me wonder whether Floyd Mayweather really does deserve to be pushed down to number three as a result of his inactivity.

The 34 year-old has proven time and time again to be one of the most elusive fighters of all time, slick and hard to hit, with one of the fastest right hands in the fight game ever.

With seven fights in the last seven years though since the ‘Pretty Boy’ demolished Arturo Gatti in six painful rounds, should the fact that an obviously super-gifted fighter has outside the ring distractions hamper his rating even if he has never lost or officially retired.

For my ‘Money,’ Floyd is without question the best fighter in the world but as he has developed more and more outside factors dragging him away from boxing, Manny Pacquiao has continued to fight two or three times a year, racking up title after title, breaking record after record and even with three defeats on his record and Donaire with one, both have overtaken the five-weight world title holder.

Mayweather (41-0, 25 KO’s) now has the opportunity to show the whole world who the number one fighter is when he challenges Victor Ortiz for his WBC welterweight crown on September 17th and could return to the summit of the P4P rankings with a convincing victory in Las Vegas.

The debate will never fully end though without getting the two fighters to share a ring and hopefully in 2012 the biggest fight in a generation can happen and the score will be settled once and for all.

But for me, at this moment, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the top fighter in the world, even though the rankings don't say it.

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