Boxing Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Naoya Inoue holds on to top spot despite strong showing from Canelo Alvarez

'The Monster' proved again why there's no match for him in the world right now

As if the current three-horse race atop boxing's pound-for-pound rankings wasn't competitive enough, the past three days saw two of those names in important fights, which had the potential to shake up the rankings. 

The same thing happened last July, when Naoya Inoue's dismantling of Stephen Fulton Jr. allowed him to briefly hold the P4P top spot until Terence Crawford took out Errol Spence Jr. just four days later in their undisputed welterweight blockbuster. The only difference this time around was that the king stayed the king. 

Despite Canelo Alvarez's impressive takedown of unbeaten Jaime Munguia in Saturday's PBC on Prime Video pay-per-view in Las Vegas, which showcased how much the 33-year-old Mexican icon still belongs atop the sport, what the boxing world saw out of Inoue just two days later proved too difficult to avoid.