Pound-for-Pound Question

[Spacey1991]

If you retire from boxing as the P4P King such as Mayweather had done then return later to boxing, do you lose your P4P ranking? What happens now? Just wondering... JAT

I am unsure to be honest, he will automatically go back up there but I don't know if he would need one fight to go back to #1, because of his absence. I aint really sure though

[deliveryman]

I am unsure to be honest, he will automatically go back up there but I don't know if he would need one fight to go back to #1, because of his absence. I aint really sure though

Of course he would. To replace Pacquiao as P4P #1, without even having to fight first is just discrediting, and flat out disrespecting Manny Pacquiao.