Pound-for-pound: Top fighters starting to get busy

Pound-for-pound: More top fighters have fights scheduled or in works.

The pound-for-pounders are finding opponents.

Thirteen of the 20 fighters on the Boxing Junkie pound-for-pound list — the Top 15, plus five Honorable Mentions — have fights scheduled or in the works.

On Wednesday alone, No. 14 Jermell Charlo, No. 15 Gervonta Davis and HM Jermall Charlo had fights announced for the summer. And the announcement that No. 6 Teofimo Lopez will face George Kambosos reportedly will come Friday.

Now, if we could only find No. 1 Terence Crawford a dance partner and finalize the long-running soap opera that is No. 8 Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua …

Here is where the pound-for-pounders stand.

BOXING JUNKIE
POUND-FOR-POUND

  1. Terence Crawford — No fight scheduled.
  2. Canelo Alvarez – Scheduled to face Billy Joe Saunders in a title-unification fight on May 8.
  3. Naoya Inoue — Reportedly scheduled to fight Michael Dasmarinas on June 19.
  4. Errol Spence Jr. – Reportedly in talks to face Yordenis Ugas in a 147-pound title-unification bout.
  5. Oleksandr Usyk – Reportedly in talks to face Joe Joyce for the WBO “interim” heavyweight title.
  6. Teofimo Lopez — Reportedly will defend his 135-pound titles against George Kambosos on June.
  7. Vasiliy Lomachenko — Reportedly in talks to face Masayoshi Nakatani this summer.
  8. Tyson Fury – In talks to face Anthony Joshua in a heavyweight title-unification bout.
  9. Gennadiy Golovkin — No fight scheduled.
  10. Juan Francisco Estrada — The WBC announced that Estrada will meet Roman Gonzalez in a third fight as part of a junior bantamweight tournament but nothing is official.
  11. Mikey Garcia — No fight scheduled.
  12. Artur Beterbiev — No fight scheduled.
  13. Manny Pacquiao — No fight scheduled
  14. Jermell Charlo — Scheduled to face Brian Castano in a 154-pound title-unification fight on July 17.
  15. Gervonta Davis — Scheduled to face Mario Barrios in a 140-pound bout on June 26.

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Mairis Briedis (no fight scheduled), Jermall Charlo (scheduled to face Juan Montiel on June 19), Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (The WBC announced that Sor Rungvisai will meet Carlos Cuadras as part of a junior bantamweight tournament but nothing is official), Josh Taylor (scheduled to fight Jose Ramirez on May 22) and Oscar Valdez (no fight scheduled).

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