Manny Pacquiao was the consensus #2 Welterweight after Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather never lost & retired as Lineal Champion. Lineal Championship became vacant. Manny Pacquiao un-retires & comes back from vacation/bullshytting/politics. Most hardcore fans believe strongly that Manny Pacquiao is the best Welterweight today as do the Boxing media. Manny Pacquiao is given the Lineal Championship. That's how it goes many times when Lineal Champions leave the division/retire, the next best clear cut guy is awarded the Lineal Championship.
There are cases that can be made that Alexander Povetkin and Luis Ortiz are the 2 best HWs
Let's not act like Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder are big favorites...if even a favorite at all...because I would pick both the Steroid Brothers over Anthony Joshua right now & Luis Ortiz is a 50/50 fight with Deontay Wilder (and some would say I'm being very kind to Wilder with that ratio...but I believe in The Bronze Bomber

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So...at the end of the day, your post actually came off very casual to me bc who would act like someone saying "Luis Ortiz is the best HW today & Povetkin is #2nd", and "Manny Pacquiao is clearly the best Welterweight today" is absurd...especially the Salt Water Jesus stuff when you tell us this shyt about The Toradol Terminator every other day