What do they mean pound for pound in boxing?

Question

What do they mean pound for pound in boxing?

Answer 1

In boxing- weight matters in terms of power for both being able to throw and take punches.  For that reason, you don't see Wlad Klitschko fighting Margo.  Klitschko would possibly kill margo in a fight.

Because of size disparity you do not get to see the best boxers in different weight classes fighting each other.

So, the term pound for pound was put in place to show who is the better fighter regardless of weight.

i.e. Margo is a much better fighter pound for pound than Klitschko.

Pac-Man is better pound for pound than DLH.

make sense?

Answer 2

In that weight Class!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

equal weight

Answer 4

In the most simplist words.

Whos the better striker.

Answer 5

i had always thought that being pound for pound champion means that if they were at any weight they would beat anyone.

Answer 6

What this means is a boxers ability for his size. For instance Sugar Ray Robinson at 147 and 160 was the best and it should not be held against him he was not a heavyweight. Ali even explained it well. In fact the lighter weights bring much more to the table in terms of ability, talent, speed and ring saavy.  

Answer 7

In the early 1950's sportswriters thought that Sugar Ray Robinson was the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, because they knew that although he was great, he couldn't beat the best heavyweights around at the time (because he was only a welterweight/middleweight, so he wasn't physically big enough), but everyone could see that Sugar Ray was (aside from the size difference) the better technician in the ring.

The term pound-for-pound has since been in use to describe lots of great boxers who aren't necessarily the biggest and therefore the strongest, e.g. Marvin Hagler was probably better pound-for-pound than Evander Holyfield, but Holyfield is a heavyweight and Hagler is a middleweight, so a fight between them would understandably be won by Holyfield.

So basically, pound-for-pound rankings are a way of comparing the ability of boxers in different weight divisions (without the obvious logic of the bigger boxer beating the smaller boxer).