Editing The Ring (magazine) (section)

==List of pound for pound #1 fighters==

As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}.

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:{{Color box|#B2FFFF|border=darkgray}} Current P4P #1

{| class="wikitable"
!No.
!Name
!Weight Division(s) as #1
!Date
|- 
!1
|align=left|[[Mike Tyson]]
|Heavyweight
|align=center|1989 &ndash; January 1990
|- 
! 2 
|align=left|[[Julio César Chávez]]
|Junior welterweight 
|align=center|January 1990 &ndash; September 1993
|- 
! 3 
|align=left|[[Pernell Whitaker]] 
|{{plainlist|
*Welterweight
*Junior middleweight
}}
|align=center|September 1993 &ndash; April 1997
|- 
! 4 
|align=left|[[Roy Jones Jr.]] 
|Light heavyweight 
|align=center|April &ndash; May 1997 
|- 
! 5 
| align=left|[[Oscar De La Hoya]] 
|Welterweight 
|align=center|May 1997 &ndash; June 1999
|- 
! 6 
|align=left| Roy Jones Jr. (2) 
| Light heavyweight 
|align=center|June 1999 &ndash; June 2000
|- 
! 7 
| align=left|[[Shane Mosley]] 
| Welterweight
|align=center| June 2000 &ndash; July 2002
|- 
! 8 
|align=left| [[Bernard Hopkins]] 
| Middleweight 
|align=center| July 2002 &ndash; November 2003
|- 
! 9 
|align=left| Roy Jones Jr. (3)
| {{plainlist|
* Light heavyweight 
* Heavyweight
}}
| align=center|November 2003 &ndash; June 8, 2004
|-
! 10 
| align=left|Bernard Hopkins (2) 
| Middleweight 
|align=center| June 8, 2004 &ndash; July 18, 2005
|- 
! 11 
|align=left| [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]]
|{{plainlist|
*Junior welterweight 
*Welterweight
*Junior middleweight
}}
| align=center|July 18, 2005 &ndash; June 9, 2008
|- 
! 12 
|align=left| [[Manny Pacquiao]] 
| {{plainlist|
*Junior lightweight 
*Lightweight
*Junior welterweight
*Welterweight
*Junior middleweight
}}
|align=center| June 9, 2008 &ndash; May 7, 2012
|-
!colspan=4|{{small| ''The Ring'' decided to vacate the pound-for-pound #1 rank and demoted Pacquiao to #2 that resulted in a tie with Mayweather Jr. because the members of the editorial board were unimpressed by Pacquiao's performance [[Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez III|in his third fight with Juan Manuel Márquez]], while Mayweather Jr. was not promoted to #1 because the board determined that he struggled [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto|in his fight against Miguel Cotto.]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosenthal|first=Michael|date=8 May 2012|title=Ring Ratings Update: Does Mayweather supplant Pacquiao atop Pound-for-Pound list?|work=The Ring|url= https://www.ringtv.com/172781-ring-ratings-update-does-mayweather-supplant-pacquao-atop-pound-for-pound-list/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510113354/https://www.ringtv.com/172781-ring-ratings-update-does-mayweather-supplant-pacquao-atop-pound-for-pound-list/|archive-date=10 May 2022|access-date=10 May 2022}}</ref>}}
|- 
!13 
|align=left|  Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2) || 
{{plainlist|
*Welterweight
*Junior middleweight 
}}
| align=center|December 11, 2012 &ndash; September 15, 2015
|- 
!14
|align=left|  [[Román González (boxer)|Román González]] || 
{{plainlist|
*Flyweight
*Junior bantamweight
}}
|align=center|September 15, 2015 &ndash; March 21, 2017
|- 
! 15 
|align=left| [[Andre Ward]] || Light heavyweight
|align=center|March 21 &ndash; September 26, 2017 
|-
! 16
|align=left| [[Gennady Golovkin]] || Middleweight 
|align=center| September 26, 2017 &ndash; September 18, 2018 
|-
! 17 
|align=left| [[Vasiliy Lomachenko]] || Lightweight 
|align=center| September 18, 2018 &ndash; November 7, 2019
|- 
! 18 
|align=left| [[Canelo Álvarez]] ||
{{plainlist|
*Middleweight
*Super middleweight
*Light heavyweight
}}
|align=center| November 7, 2019 &ndash; May 7, 2022
|-  
! 19
|align=left| [[Oleksandr Usyk]] ||
Heavyweight
|align=center| May 7 &ndash; June 11, 2022
|-  
! 20
|align=left| [[Naoya Inoue]] ||
Bantamweight
|align=center| June 11 &ndash; August 20, 2022
|-  
!21
|align=left| Oleksandr Usyk (2) ||
Heavyweight
|align=center| August 20, 2022 &ndash; July 29, 2023
|- 
! 22
|align=left| [[Terence Crawford]] ||
Welterweight
|align=center| July 29, 2023 &ndash; May 6, 2024
|-  
! 23
|align=left| Naoya Inoue (2)||
Junior featherweight
|align=center| May 6 &ndash; May 18, 2024
|-  style="background:#b2ffff;"
! 24
|align=left| Oleksandr Usyk (3)||
Heavyweight
|align=center| May 18, 2024 &ndash; present
|}