# The 16 Greatest Boxers of the 2010s

> Heavyweights came back, welterweights got rich, and one undefeated record kept growing.

*By YPB Team · Published September 20, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-16-greatest-boxers-of-the-2010s*

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1. **Juan Manuel Marquez** — score 1000/1000
   Knocked Pacquiao out cold in December 2012 in their fourth fight.
2. **Errol Spence Jr.** — score 930/1000
   Took the IBF welterweight title in Sheffield and unified before the decade ended.
3. **Floyd Mayweather** — score 930/1000
   Closed the decade 50-0 after beating Pacquiao, Canelo and Conor McGregor.
4. **Vasiliy Lomachenko** — score 734/1000
   Won titles in three divisions inside twelve professional fights.
5. **Guillermo Rigondeaux** — score 734/1000
   Two-time Olympic champion whose technical style made him unbeatable and unbookable.
6. **Terence Crawford** — score 734/1000
   Became undisputed at super lightweight and then took the WBO welterweight title.
7. **Andre Ward** — score 636/1000
   Won the Super Six, moved to light heavyweight, beat Kovalev twice and retired unbeaten.
8. **Gennadiy Golovkin** — score 636/1000
   Ran up twenty middleweight title defences before the Canelo fights.
9. **Wladimir Klitschko** — score 636/1000
   Dominated the heavyweight division until Tyson Fury beat him in 2015.
10. **Tyson Fury** — score 636/1000
   Beat Klitschko, left the sport, came back and drew with Deontay Wilder.
11. **Naoya Inoue** — score 636/1000
   Won three divisions in the decade and took the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight final.
12. **Manny Pacquiao** — score 382/1000
   Won the WBA welterweight title at 40 and kept headlining Las Vegas throughout the decade.
13. **Anthony Joshua** — score 382/1000
   Olympic champion who filled Wembley and unified the heavyweight titles.
14. **Canelo Alvarez** — score 0/1000
   Grew from Mayweather's opponent into the sport's biggest star and a two-fight rival of Golovkin.
15. **Sergey Kovalev** — score 0/1000
   Light heavyweight puncher whose two fights with Ward split the division.
16. **Deontay Wilder** — score 0/1000
   Held the WBC heavyweight title for five years on the strength of one punch.

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