Canelo Alvarez has been booted from The Ring’s top 10 pound-for-pound and replaced by Devin Haney. Alvarez had been rated #10 before his loss to Terence Crawford on September 13, 2025.
Haney Sneaks In
Haney (33-0, 15 KOs) has taken Canelo’s spot at #10 in today’s updated P4P rankings after WBO welterweight champion last Saturday night in Riyadh. It was far from an outstanding performance by Devin, but he got the win.
Devin showed the art of the clinch in his victory, and not the kind of effort that is worthy of a top 10 spot in the P4P in the welterweight top 10.
Canelo (63-3-2, 39 KOs) has shown signs of decline since his May 4, 2024, fight with Jaime Munguia. He gassed out after four rounds and took a lot of heavy shots in the second half of the fight. In Alvarez’s three fights since then against Edgar Berlanga, William Scull, and Crawford, he’s shown stamina problems in each.
1 Terence Crawford
2 Oleksandr Usyk
3 Naoya Inoue
4 Jesse Rodriguez
5 Dmitry Bivol
6 Artur Beterbiev
7 Junto Nakatani
8 Shakur Stevenson
9 David Benavidez
10 Devin Haney
Crawford’s Overrated #1
The Ring’s P4P rankings need a complete overhaul, as Crawford didn’t perform well enough in his fights against Canelo and Israil Madrimov to be rated #1. Terence’s performances in those fights showed that he should be rated down near the bottom of the pound-for-pound top 10.
Bam Deserves the Throne
Jess ‘Bam’ Rodriguez is fighting at a much higher level than Crawford and Inoue. Placing him at the top 2 makes more sense. Shakur Stevenson hasn’t done anything to be included on the list. So, he’s got to go.
Junto Nakatani hasn’t faced strong enough opposition during his career to be on the P4P list. He would be deserving if he bags a win over Inoue, but until then, he should be off the list.
Chris Williams’ Real P4P
- Oleksandr Usyk
- Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez
- David Benavidez
- Rafael Espinoza
- Jai Opetaia
- Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis
- Fabio Wardley
- Naoya Inoue
- Dmitry Bivol
- Terence Crawford
Last Updated on 11/24/2025
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