By Chris Williams: The Ring was supposedly lowering WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to #2 in their pound-for-pound ratings this month with Floyd Mayweather Jr. being elevated to #1. However, in looking at the ratings that came out on April 2nd, Pacquiao is still #1 in the Ring’s rankings. So what’s up with that? I don’t agree with that all. They need to fix that or maybe get some new blood in the ratings panel, like adding me.

Mayweather has been CLEARLY fighting on a higher level in his last three fights compared to Pacquiao. I mean, look at the three guys that Mayweather completely schooled: Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley and Victor Ortiz. Those are three quality fighters. Mayweather made them look like near amateurs in whipping them in all one-sided fights.

Let’s compare this to Pacquiao. He went life and death with Marquez last November and won a CONTROVERSIAL 12 round majority decision in a fight that boxing fans pretty much all saw Marquez winning. Yeah, Pacquiao beat Mosley, but that was after Mayeather had softened him up for him by beating him first. And Ortiz is someone that Pacquiao would major problems with. We already heard about their sparring sessions where Ortiz gave Pacquiao a lot of problems. Ortiz didn’t give Mayweather ANY problems at all. It was too easy for Mayweather. In Pacquiao’s fights with Antonio Margarito in November 2010, Pacquiao took a lot of heavy shots and was almost knocked down in the 6th round from a hard body shot. That wasn’t an effortless fight, believe me.

Since The Ring hasn’t made the adjustments that I had thought they would in their ratings, I’ve decided to put together my own that more closely resembles the reality of where Pacquiao and Mayweather are right now:

1. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
2. Sergio Martinez
3. Andre Ward
4. Juan Manuel Marquez
5. Wladimir Klitschko
6. Tim Bradley
7. Yuriorkis Gamboa
8. Manny Pacquiao
9. Vitali Klitschko
10. Lucian Bute