Floyd Mayweather's view of Manny Pacquiao is from the rear

MICHAEL MARLEY’S MARVELOUS TOP TEN POUND FOR POUND LIST

1. MANNY PACQUIAO
2. FLOYD MAYWEATHER
3. MIKKEL KESSLER
4. MIGUEL COTTO
5. JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ
6. PAUL WILLIAMS
7. SUGAR SHANE MOSLEY
8. KLITSCHKO BROTHERS, W AND V
9. BAD CHAD DAWSON
10. ISRAEL VAZQUEZ


Good news for you Floyd Mayweather fanatics, all 144 of you out there.

Given his complete whitewashing of a urine-soaked Mexican midget named Juan Manuel Marquez, who had as much business fighting a junior middleweight as I would fighting Vitali Klitschko, Mayweather’s place in the Michael Marley Mythical But Prestigious Pound For Pound Pantheon is secure.

Yep, that is correct. Manny Pacquiao, who knocks people out of the ring and into retirement (Messrs. de la Hoya and Hatton), remains in the driver’s seat, the Hertz position while Mayweather is looking at the lead dog’s hindquarters (talk about your mixed up metaphors) in the Numero Dos or Avis slot.

The only way Money May can grab the pole position, and this is no cheap reference to Andrew Golota, is to beat Pacman and thus purloin the P4P diadem.

Nothing I saw Saturday night convinced me that Pacman cannot beat Mayweather. I think the bookmakers will post it up initially with L’il Floyd as a 7-5 favorite and that is about right. Certainly, Mayweather is bigger and faster than Megamanny but their competition won’t be the 1,500 meter run, it will be a prizefight and you may be sure that Pacman will get his licks in.

You may be a tad surprised at the selection for Numero Tres but check back with me on Nov. 21 after he gives undefeated Andre “Son Of God” Ward a whipping that will cause the deeply religious American to speak in tongues. It will “tat’s all, folks” for the inexperienced Ward who has had his opponents selected at the Alameda County Morgue, when he crosses gloves with Dashing Dane Mikkel Kessler. He’s really the only one of the Super Six who has super skills.

Firmly positioned in fourth place is Puerto Rican banger Miguel Cotto and I hear tell he’s training like a Spartan for a big fight with someone on Nov. 14.

Donde esta Senor Marquez you ask?

He’s dropped from Number 2 to Number 5 and, while he remains the best 135 pounder, I will resist the temptation to say that Mayweather slapped the pee out of him.

You know me, no bad taste comments. I’m more pure than Caesar’s wife but, then again, she was a harlot who worked out of a used car lot.

Punisher Paul Williams, who is going to prove to be too much for Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik come Dec. 5 is in sixth place. I only put Williams this low because of the inexplicable loss to Carlos Quintana which was emphatically avenged.

As they say in black Baptist churches on Sunday, how long will it be before Williams claims the Numero Uno spot for himself?
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Not long, not long, not long at all. Pulverizing or shutting out Pavlik will give him an ample boost.

Sitting in seventh position as his arteries harden and he is without time, place and opponent for his next fight is Sugar Shane Mosley. I admit, I may have botched this ranking as Mosley seems to deserve a higher ranking. I guess destroying Antonio Margarito doesn’t have the value it did last January.

Clearly, Mayweather is no rush to fight Mosley. He may wait until His Sugarship has his 38th and 39th birthdays.

I’m so proud of myself for getting through first through seventh place without listing any heavyweight.

Unfortunately, outside of the Klit Bros., the current heavyweights are lightweights.

Bubbling just below the pains from the Ukraine in the ninth slot, is Bad Chad Dawson.

I wouldn’t do that because it would be poor taste.

Filling out the Marley Top Ten is just that, filler.

Let’s post the Klitschko Bros., whose bromance won’t permit them to box each other, as an entry in the eighth slot.

I am digging deep for Number 9 and I don’t mean Thedore Samuel “Teddy Ballgame” Williams.

Unless and until that fragile chin betrays him, Bad Chad Dawson deserves this honorable mention.

The 10th spot could be Fillinnamehere because I have no strong conviction on this one.

How about, despite his high mileage, thrillgiver Israel Vasquez?

Two Mexicanos in my Top Ten? Is that a commentary on the state of boxing South of the Border or what?

Feel free to vilify me.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m9d20-Floyd-Mayweathers-view-of-Manny-Pacquiao-is-from-the-rear