Eddie Hearn has revealed his pound-for-pound best fighter in the world.
Hearn touched on his best two in the world and explained why his winner just edges it.
In most people’s top three pound-for-pound lists sits Terence Crawford, Oleksandr Usyk and Naoya Inoue.
All three of these fighters have continued their fine form this year with huge wins.
Inoue fought a few weeks back where he dominated Hearn’s fighter Murodjon Akhmadaliev over 12 rounds.
The 32-year-old has definitely been the most active of the three, fighting six times since the start of 2024 compared to Usyk fighting three times and Crawford just twice.
Usyk has continued his destruction of the heavyweight division with wins over a prior unbeaten Tyson Fury, two-time world champion Anthony Joshua and most recently stopping Daniel Dubois in just five rounds.
Crawford continues to stamp his name at the peak of the sport, now a five-weight world champion and the first three-weight undisputed world champion in history.
The 38-year-old picked up the biggest win of his career a couple of weeks back, dominating Canelo Alvarez at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, as he moved up two weight classes to take the super middleweight undisputed title.
Hearn gave his thoughts to IFLTV.
“Who has Crawford beat from the pound-for-pound list?
“The answer is Canelo Alvarez, and maybe Errol Spence at the time who was somewhere near the back end of the top 10 at the time, but when he fought Shawn Porter, when he fought Kell Brook, when he fought Amir Khan, when he fought Gamboa, it’s important that you get what I’m saying.
“I think he’s the most skilled fighter on the planet. It’s not his fault, he could have beaten those real elite guys in his prime but he never got to fight them.
“And then I look at Usyk and I go Fury, who I believe was in his prime, right at the top of his game, AJ, two or three years ago, Dubois who is a young man and particular the second victory against Dubois when he was firing on all cylinders, but even when I go back to cruiserweight, he was beating those guys in their back yard.
“He pips it, but it’s very close.“
