Canelo Alvarez continues his stranglehold as the world’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, ruling the boxing world for the sixth-straight time atop the Boxing Writers Association of America’s top-10 bimonthly pound-for-pound poll. Alvarez, the BWAA’s 2019 Fighter of the Year, was on every ballot and received every first-place place vote but two. He has not relinquished the BWAA’s top spot since December 2019, when he snapped previous BWAA pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko’

Thus far, 2021 has been a good year for the ladies of the Top 10, with all but three members of the list competing. And while Delfine Persoon returns in July, there is nothing on the calendar yet for Yesica Bopp and Marcela Acuna, and considering that both have been inactive since the spring of 2019, this list might look a lot different the next time you see it. Among the active fighters, Katie Taylor remains at No.1, with Claressa Shields holding steady at No.2, even with a