First came the Mayweather vs. Marquez fight, now the Pacquiao vs. Cotto fight is out of the way. With both of these two fights gone, and two great performances by the winners, the pound for pound rankings need to be updated once again. Here are the top pound for pound boxers in the world, as brought to you by ProBoxing-Fans.com

Top 10 Pound for Pound Boxing Rankings Last Updated November 18, 2009

1. Manny Pacquiao – 50 (38) – 3 – 2 – Pacquiao has moved from one megafight to the next to the next, toppling Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto all in amazing fashion. With his dominacne of Cotto, Pacquiao has reasserted himself as the standalone kingpin of the sport, ahead of Mayweather who is a close number 2. Of course, now all we need is for the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight to come off and we will all be happy boxing fans.

2. Floyd Mayweather – 40 (25) – 0 – Floyd Mayweather dominated Juan Manuel Marquez, and despite his size advantage that is not an easy thing to do. ProBoxing-Fans.com had Mayweather winning every single round of the fight; however, he didn’t turn up the gas and get Marquez out of the fight. If he had, he may have been able to jump to the number 1 pound for pound spot. Now he’ll have to wait for a Pacquiao confrontation.

3. Juan Manuel Marquez – 50 (37) – 5 – 1 – The loss against Mayweather does nothing to tarnish Marquez’s standing in the sport. He had to jump up two weight classes for the fight, and he never gave up despite being clearly outmatched. Marquez can drop to either lightweight, where he is currently the champion, or junior welterweight, where he can hope to get a third fight against Manny Pacquiao in the future.

4. Bernard Hopkins – 49 (32) – 5 – 1 – Bernard Hopkins has to get in the ring sometime soon if he wants to continue to be considered an active, professional boxer. There are still rumors that he could face Tomasz Adamek, or the winner of the Glen Johnson vs. Chad Dawson rematch.

5. Paul Williams – 37 (27) – 1 – Williams continues to define the term pound for pound. Still considering himself a welterweight fighter, he holds a title at junior middleweight and is coming off a completely dominating and shockingly one sided contest against Winky Wright at middleweight. Next up is a fight against middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, in which he can further prove to the world just how capable he is against the hard hitting champion. In the last year and a half he’s 4-0 with 3 knockouts in 3 weight divisions.

6. Shane Mosley – 49 (39) – 5 – Shane Mosley shocked the boxing world when he knocked out and beat up Antonio “Manos de Plaster” Margarito in the beginning of this year. At the age of 37, he’s looking for a big fight and he’s been taking his time to peruse the available options. He made his interests well known when he jumped the stage and ambushed Mayweather during his post-fight interview. Whether that helped or hurt his chances to get Mayewather in the ring is yet to be determined.

7. Chad Dawson – 28 (17) – 0 – He finally has the rematch against Antonio Tarver out of the way and now can go about his business. He’s looking towards another rematch, this one far more intriguing, of his very tight decision victory over Glen Johnson. Credit has to be given for not only facing the always avoided Johnson the first time, but for being willing to get back in there and do it again as well.

8. Tomasz Adamek – 38 (26) – 1 – When Dawson beat Adamek, the boxing community knew he was a good fighter, but nobody could have predicted his domination of the cruiserweight division that has followed. A knockout win over O’Neil Bell, and a decision over Steve Cunningham, not to mention other impressive knockout wins along the way. A rematch with Cunningham may be – and hopefully is – around the corner. Alternatively, he may end up squaring off against Hopkins.

9. Ivan Calderon – 33 (6) – 0 – 1 – Chances are that you haven’t seen Ivan Calderon fight before, as he’s spent his career toiling away in weight classes that would make super models jealous. Undefeated for his career and a champion for six years running, Calderon recently moved up from 105 lbs – the straw weight division to 108 lbs, the junior flyweight division.

10. Chris John - 43 (22) – 0 – 2 – Chris John hasn’t gotten to showcase his game to American fight fans all too often, but the fact is that he is a longstanding, dominant featherweight champion. He got robbed in the first fight against Rocky Juarez, but took care of business in the rematch. Of course, he has that win over Juan Manuel Marquez years ago to his credit.

** Rafael Marquez/Israel Vazquez – Marquez finally stepped back into the ring for the first time following his trilogy with Vazquez. He cruised to an early TKO against an overmatched opponent. Vazquez has not yet fought again although he now has a planned comeback bout in the featherweight division. These two men may have taken too much out of each other to compete at the top levels again. Out of respect for their talent they deserve being mentioned here, but both need to start getting busy in the ring once again.

The next 15 on the Bubble (in alphabetical order): Arthur Abraham, Andre Berto, Timothy Bradley, Lucian Bute, Celestino Caballero, Miguel Cotto, Steve Cunningham, Vic Darchinyan, Juan Diaz, Robert Guerrero, David Haye, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, Juan Manuel Lopez, Winky Wright

That wraps up this edition of the boxing P4P list. There is a busy schedule of fall fights which could effect the pound for pound standings quite a bit. We get to see pound for pound number 1 Manny Pacquiao take on welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, and the Super Six Tournament gets underway. Stay tuned for more boxing p4p updates, brought to you by the pound for pound leader in boxing coverage, Pro Boxing Fans.

Written by: Jake Emen