Andre Ward Tops BWAA's Inaugural Top-10 Pound-For-Pound List

Andre Ward-Photo by Tom Hogan/Courtesy of Roc Nation

The Boxing Writers Association of America will be listing on a bi-monthly basis its top-10 pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

Our first listing is a compilation of pound-for-pound listings from respected news outlets and was broken down based on a descending points system, with a first-place vote receiving 10 points, a second-place vote receiving nine points and so on. Ties went to the fighter with the highest submitted ranking, then the one with the most votes at that ranking.

All BWAA members, full and auxiliary, can send their top-10 pound-for-pound votes in by the first Monday of each even month to JSantoliquitoBWAA@yahoo.com. The next deadline will be Monday, October 2, 2017, with the results posted the first week of that month.

Andre Ward tops our inaugural listing, followed by Gennady Golovkin, Vasyl Lomachenko, Terence Crawford, Canelo Alvarez, Roman Gonzalez, Sergey Kovalev, Guillermo Rigondeaux. Keith Thurman and Errol Spence Jr.

BWAA Pound-for-Pound Top 10

1. Andre Ward

Light Heavyweight

32-0-0 (16 KOs)

2. Gennady Golovkin

Middleweight

37-0-0 (33 KOs)

3. Vasyl Lomachenko

Jr. Lightweight

8-1-0 (6 KOs)

4. Terence Crawford

Jr. Welterweight