RING RATINGS ANALYSIS Through fights of May 4, 2025
JR. MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 154 POUNDS
WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 147 POUNDS
JR. WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 140 POUNDS
MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 160 POUNDS
round stoppage. It’s about as good a place for the word “dominant” as you’ll find on this page – enough to lift Espinoza from No. 2 to No. 1 on the list. Undefeated New Yorker Bruce Carrington (No. 7) has been mentioned as a possible next opponent for the surging Mexican, who was making his third defense, and there’s also a chance of Espinoza challenging Emanuel Navarette at 130 pounds. JUNIOR BANTAMWEIGHT Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (No. 9 last month) dropped out of the ratings after losing an eight- round unanimous decision to Kaito Yamasaki at junior featherweight. His exit put an end to an epic top-10 run that stretched all the way back to May 2013, when Sor Rungvisai (aka Wisaksil Wangek) stopped Yota Sato for the WBC title. After that, the trash collector-turned- knockout artist became the Cinderella story of the decade (at least) when he defeated Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, who was 46-0 and the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world at the time, by majority decision, then silenced all talk of poor judging with a devastating fourth-round knockout of Gonzalez in the immediate rematch. And the fairytale continued in Sor Rungvisai’s next fight, when he won a majority decision over Juan Francisco Estrada
in 2018 to become the first Ring champion at 115 pounds (it was an unusual case of No. 2 vs. No. 3 deciding the championship, because the fighter at No. 1 – a young lad named Naoya Inoue – was already committed to moving up in weight). Estrada relieved him of that championship when they met again, and the Thai fighter’s peak had clearly come and gone, but Sor Rungvisai did his own version of shaking up the world with that trio of victories. After his removal, a spot opened up at No. 10 for South African Ricardo Malajika. BANTAMWEIGHT: Emmanuel Rodriguez (No. 6) was last seen fighting in May 2024, so he was dropped from the list and undefeated Filipino Kenneth “The Lover Boy” Llover swept in at No. 10. STRAWWEIGHT: Double Olympic gold medalist Hasanboy Dusmatov (No. 5 last month) has kept one foot in the amateurs and has only managed to have six pro fights in six years, his most recent one being in November 2023, so he was also removed for inactivity. That cleared the way for Ryusei Matsumodo (5-0, 3 KOs), another case of a Japanese fighter who has been fast-tracked toward a title shot, to enter at No. 10.
POUND FOR POUND LIST 1 OLEKSANDR USYK Ukraine • 23-0-0 (14 KOs) 2 NAOYA INOUE Japan • 30-0-0 (27 KOs) 3 TERENCE CRAWFORD U.S. • 41-0-0 (31 KOs) 4 DMITRY BIVOL Russia • 24-1-0 (12 KOs) 5 ARTUR BETERBIEV Russia • 21-1-0 (20 KOs) 6 JESSE RODRIGUEZ U.S. • 21-0-0 (14 KOs) 7 JUNTO NAKATANI Japan • 30-0-0 (23 KOs) 8 CANELO ALVAREZ Mexico • 63-2-2 (39 KOs) 9 KENSHIRO TERAJI Japan • 25-1-0 (16 KOs 10 DAVID BENAVIDEZ U.S. • 31-0-0 (15 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 ZHANIBEK ALIMKHANULY IBF, WBO Kazakhstan • 17-0-0 (12 KOs) 2 CARLOS ADAMES WBC Dom. Rep. • 24-1-1 (18 KOs) 3 HAMZAH SHEERAZ U.K. • 21-0-1 (17 KOs) 4 ERISLANDY LARA WBA Cuba • 31-3-3 (19 KOs) 5 CHRIS EUBANK JR. U.K. • 35-3-0 (25 KOs) 6 ETINOSA OLIHA Italy • 21-0-0 (9 KOs) 7 KYRONE DAVIS U.S. • 19-3-1 (6 KOs) 8 TROY ISLEY U.S. • 14-0-0 (5 KOs) 9 SHANE MOSLEY JR . U.S. • 22-4-0 (12 KOs) 10 AARON MCKENNA Ireland • 20-0-0 (10 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 TERENCE CRAWFORD WBA U.S. • 41-0-0 (31 KOs) 2 VERGIL ORTIZ U.S. • 23-0-0 (21 KOs) 3 ISRAIL MADRIMOV Uzbekistan • 10-2-1 (7 KOs) 4 BAKHRAM MURTAZALIEV IBF Russia • 23-0-0 (17 KOs) 5 SEBASTIAN FUNDORA WBC, WBO U.S. • 22-1-1 (14 KOs) 6 SERHII BOHACHUK Ukraine • 25-2-0 (24 KOs) 7 TIM TSZYU Australia • 25-2-0 (18 KOs) 8 JESUS RAMOS U.S. • 23-1-0 (19 KOs) 9 JORGE GARCIA PEREZ Mexico • 33-4-0 (26 KOs) 10 XANDER ZAYAS Puerto Rico • 21-0-0 (13 KOs)
C JARON ENNIS RING, IBF, WBA U.S. • 34-0-0 (30 KOs) 1 BRIAN NORMAN JR. WBO U.S. • 27-0-0 (21 KOs) 2 EIMANTAS STANIONIS Lithuania • 15-1-0 (9 KOs) 3 MARIO BARRIOS WBC U.S. • 29-2-1 (18 KOs) 4 GIOVANI SANTILLAN U.S. • 33-1-0 (18 KOs) 5 SHAKHRAM GIYASOV Uzbekistan • 17-0-0 (10 KOs) 6 JIN SASAKI Japan • 19-1-1 (17 KOs) 7 ROHAN POLANCO Dom. Rep. • 16-0-0 (10 KOs) 8 ALEXIS ROCHA U.S. • 25-2-1 (16 KOs) 9 RAUL CURIEL Mexico • 15-0-1 (13 KOs) 10 KAREN CHUKHADZHIAN Ukraine • 24-3-0 (13 KOs)
C TEOFIMO LOPEZ RING, WBO U.S. • 22-1-0 (13 KOs) 1 RICHARDSON HITCHINS IBF U.S. • 19-0-0 (7 KOs) 2 ALBERTO PUELLO WBC Dom. Rep. • 24-0-0 (10 KOs) 3 JACK CATTERALL U.K. • 30-2-0 (13 KOs) 4 ARNOLD BARBOZA U.S. • 32-1-0 (11 KOs) 5 LIAM PARO Australia • 25-1-0 (15 KOs) 6 SUBRIEL MATIAS Puerto Rico • 22-2-0 (22 KOs) 7 GARY ANTUANNE RUSSELL WBA U.S. • 18-1-0 (17 KOs) 8 SANDOR MARTIN Spain • 42-4-0 (15 KOs) 9 DALTON SMITH U.K. • 18-0-0 (13 KOs) 10 ANDY HIRAOKA Japan • 24-0-0 (19 KOs)
C DMITRY BIVOL RING, IBF, WBA, WBO Russia • 24-1-0 (12 KOs) 1 ARTUR BETERBIEV Russia • 21-1-0 (20 KOs) 2 DAVID BENAVIDEZ WBC U.S. • 30-0-0 (24 KOs) 3 CALLUM SMITH U.K. • 31-2-0 (22 KOs) 4 ANTHONY YARDE U.K. • 27-3-0 (24 KOs) 5 JOSHUA BUATSI U.K. • 19-1-0 (13 KOs) 6 ALBERT RAMIREZ Venezuela • 20-0-0 (17 KOs) 7 OLEKSANDR GVOZDYK Ukraine • 21-2-0 (17 KOs) 8 DAVID MORRELL Cuba • 11-1-0 (9 KOs) 9 WILLY HUTCHINSON U.K. • 18-2-0 (13 KOs) 10 IMAM KHATAEV Australia • 10-0-0 (9 KOs) LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 175 POUNDS
LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 135 POUNDS
JR. LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 130 POUNDS
FEATHERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 126 POUNDS
JR. FEATHERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 122 POUNDS
HEAVYWEIGHTS WEIGHT UNLIMITED
CRUISERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 200 POUNDS
C CANELO ALVAREZ RING,IBF,WBA,WBC,WBO Mexico • 63-2-2 (39 KOs) 1 CHRISTIAN MBILLI France • 28-0-0 (23 KOs) 2 DIEGO PACHECO U.S. • 23-0-0 (18 KOs) 3 OSLEYS IGLESIAS Cuba • 13-0-0 (12 KOs) 4 CALEB PLANT U.S. • 23-2-0 (14 KOs) 5 JAIME MUNGUIA Mexico • 45-2-0 (35 KOs) 6 WILLIAM SCULL Cuba • 23-1-0 (9 KOs) 7 VLADIMIR SHISHKIN Russia • 16-1-0 (10 KOs) 8 BRUNO SURACE France • 26-1-2 (5 KOs) 9 EDGAR BERLANGA U.S. • 23-1-0 (18 KOs) 10 LESTER MARTINEZ Guatemala • 19-0-0 (16 KOs) SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 168 POUNDS
C OLEKSANDR USYK RING, WBA, WBC, WBO Ukraine • 23-0-0 (14 KOs) 1 TYSON FURY U.K. • 34-2-1 (24 KOs) 2 DANIEL DUBOIS IBF U.K. • 22-2-0 (21 KOs) 3 JOSEPH PARKER New Zealand • 36-3-0 (24 KOs) 4 AGIT KABAYEL Germany • 26-0-0 (17 KOs) 5 ANTHONY JOSHUA U.K. • 28-4-0 (25 KOs) 6 FILIP HRGOVIC Croatia • 18-1-0 (14 KOs) 7 ZHILEI ZHANG China • 27-3-1 (22 KOs) 8 MARTIN BAKOLE Congo • 21-2-1 (16 KOs) 9 EFE AJAGBA Nigeria • 20-1-1 (14 KOs) 10 FABIO WARDLEY U.K. • 18-0-1 (17 KOs)
C JAI OPETAIA RING, IBF Australia • 27-0-0 (21 KOs) 1 GILBERTO RAMIREZ WBA, WBO Mexico • 47-1-0 (30 KOs) 2 CHRIS BILLAM-SMITH U.K. • 21-2-0 (13 KOs) 3 ALEKSEI PAPIN Russia • 18-1-0 (17 KOs) 4 MICHAL CIESLAK Poland • 27-2-0 (21 KOs) 5 RYAN ROZICKI Canada • 20-1-1 (19 KOs) 6 BADOU JACK WBC Sweden • 29-3-3 (17 KOs) 7 NOEL MIKAELIAN Armenia • 27-3-0 (12 KOs) 8 YAMIL PERALTA Argentina • 17-1-1 (9 KOs) 9 LEONARDO MOSQUEA France • 16-0-0 (9 KOs) 10 ROBIN SIRWAN SAFAR Sweden • 18-0-0 (13 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 GERVONTA DAVIS WBA U.S. • 30-0-1 (28 KOs) 2 VASILIY LOMACHENKO IBF Ukraine • 18-3-0 (12 KOs) 3 KEYSHAWN DAVIS WBO U.S. • 13-0-0 (9 KOs) 4 SHAKUR STEVENSON WBC U.S. • 23-0-0 (11 KOs) 5 WILLIAM ZEPEDA Mexico • 33-0-0 (27 KOs) 6 RAYMOND MURATALLA U.S. • 22-0-0 (17 KOs) 7 ANDY CRUZ Cuba • 5-0-0 (2 KOs) 8 FRANK MARTIN U.S. • 18-1-0 (12 KOs) 9 DENYS BERINCHYK Ukraine • 19-1-0 (9 KOs) 10 TEVIN FARMER U.S. • 33-8-1 (8 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 EMANUEL NAVARRETE WBO Mexico • 39-2-1 (32 KOs) 2 O’SHAQUIE FOSTER WBC U.S. • 23-3-0 (12 KOs) 3 ANTHONY CACACE IBF Ireland • 23-1-0 (8 KOs) 4 LAMONT ROACH WBA U.S. • 25-1-2 (10 KOs) 5 JOE CORDINA U.K. • 17-1-0 (9 KOs) 6 ROBSON CONCEICAO Brazil • 19-3-1 (9 KOs) 7 EDUARDO NUNEZ Mexico • 27-1-0 (27 KOs) 8 EDUARDO HERNANDEZ Mexico • 37-2-0 (32 KOs) 9 ALBERT BATYRGAZIEV Russia • 12-0-0 (8 KOs) 10 RAYMOND FORD U.S. • 17-1-1 (8 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 RAFAEL ESPINOZA WBO Mexico • 27-0-0 (23 KOs) 2 ANGELO LEO IBF U.S. • 25-1-0 (12 KOs) 3 NICK BALL WBA U.K. • 22-0-1 (12 KOs) 4 STEPHEN FULTON WBC U.S. • 23-1-0 (8 KOs) 5 LUIS ALBERTO LOPEZ Mexico • 31-3-0 (18 KOs) 6 BRANDON FIGUEROA U.S. • 25-2-1 (19 KOs) 7 BRUCE CARRINGTON U.S. • 15-0-0 (9 KOs) 8 MIRCO CUELLO Argentina • 15-0-0 (12 KOs) 9 ROBEISY RAMIREZ Cuba • 14-3-0 (9 KOs) 10 OMAR TRINIDAD U.S. • 18-0-1 (13 KOs)
C NAOYA INOUE RING, IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO Japan • 30-0-0 (27 KOs) 1 MARLON TAPALES Philippines • 40-4-0 (21 KOs) 2 MURODJON AKHMADALIEV Uzbekistan • 13-1-0 (10 KOs) 3 LUIS NERY Mexico • 36-2-0 (28 KOs) 4 SAM GOODMAN Australia • 19-0-0 (8 KOs) 5 ALAN PICASSO Mexico • 31-0-1 (17 KOs) 6 SHABAZ MASOUD U.K. • 14-0-0 (4 KOs) 7 TJ DOHENY Ireland • 26-6-0 (20 KOs) 8 ELIJAH PIERCE U.S. • 20-2-0 (16 KOs) 9 RAMON CARDENAS U.S. • 26-2-0 (14 KOs) 10 SEBASTIAN HERNANDEZ Mexico • 19-0-0 (18 KOs)
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