WOMEN’S RING RATINGS ANALYSIS Through fights of May 4, 2025
Marilyn Badillo succumbed to Fundora’s attacks in Round 7.
MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 160 POUNDS
JR. MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 154 POUNDS
WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 147 POUNDS
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 168 POUNDS C SAVANNAH MARSHALL RING,IBF U.K. • 13-1-0 (10 KOs) 1 FRANCHON CREWS-DEZURN WBA,WBC U.S. • 9-2-0 (2 KOs) 2 SHADASIA GREEN WBO U.S. • 15-1-0 (11 KOs) 3 LANI DANIELS New Zealand • 11-2-2 (1 KO) 4 MARY CASAMASSA U.S. • 6-0-0 (1 KO) 5 CITLALLI ORTIZ Mexico • 4-1-0 (1 KO) JR. WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 140 POUNDS C KATIE TAYLOR RING,IBF,WBA,WBC,WBO Ireland • 24-1-0 (6 KOs) 1 CHANTELLE CAMERON U.K. • 20-1-0 (8 KOs) 2 SAMANTHA WORTHINGTON U.S. • 11-0-0 (7 KOs) 3 FLORA PILI France • 11-0-0 (2 KOs) 4 ELIZABETH OSHOBA Nigeria • 9-0-0 (5 KOs) 5 ELHEM MEKHALED France • 17-3-0 (3 KOs) JR. FEATHERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 122 POUNDS C ELLIE SCOTNEY RING,IBF,WBO U.K. • 10-0-0 (0 KOs) 1 YAMILETH MERCADO WBC Mexico • 24-3-0 (5 KOs) 2 SEGOLENE LEFEBVRE France • 19-1-0 (1 KO) 3 NAZARENA ROMERO WBA Argentina • 14-0-2 (8 KOs) 4 ERIKA CRUZ-HERNANDEZ Mexico • 17-2-1 (3 KOs) 5 MIKIAH KREPS U.S. • 10-0-0 (3 KOs)
C CLARESSA SHIELDS RING U.S. • 16-0-0 (3 KOs) 1 DESLEY ROBINSON IBF, WBO Australia • 10-3-0 (3 KOs) 2 MELINDA WATPOOL Canada • 7-1-0 (2 KOs) 3 MAPULE NGUBANE S. Africa • 14-9-3 (3 KOs) 4 ADRIANA DOS SANTOS ARAUJO Brazil • 6-3-0 (1 KO) 5 KAYE SCOTT Australia • 4-1-0 (0 KOs)
C. (VACANT) 1 OSHAE JONES IBF U.S. • 8-0-0 (3 KOs) 2 CECILIA BRAEKHUS
C LAUREN PRICE RING,IBF,WBA,WBC U.K. • 9-0-0 (2 KO) 1 MIKAELA MAYER WBO U.S. • 21-2-0 (5 KOs) 2 NATASHA JONAS U.K. • 16-3-1 (9 KOs) 3 SANDY RYAN U.K. • 7-3-1 (3 KOs) 4 MICHAELA KOTASKOVA Czech Rep. • 10-0-2 (4 KOs) 5 STEPHANIE AQUINO Puerto Rico • 8-0-0 (2 KOs)
Norway • 38-2-1 (9 KOs)
manage to notch a convincing victory against better opposition. Her win over Natasha Spence in late April did not count as such. FLYWEIGHT Another Ring championship defense and another brutal demolition job by Fundora, and against a Top 5 opponent to boot in Mexico’s Badillo. There are a lot of great things to be said about Fundora, but she’s saying them convincingly enough with her fists. Badillo would have been competitive against almost anyone else in the division, but Fundora simply annihilated her. All of that translates into a slight demotion for Badillo in favor of Russia’s Jasmina Zapotoczna, who moves to No. 4 as Badillo slips to the bottom of the Top 5. STRAWWEIGHT WBO titlist Sarah Bormann (rated No. 2 last month) once again did what she does best: score wins at home in Germany against respectable opposition. But her split decision victory over Spain’s Isabel Rivero was not enough for the panel to validate a move past pound-for-pound talent Yokasta Valle. Instead, Bormann gets to keep her seat warm until she finally comes out of the cocoon and faces Valle in a Ring championship match that could ignite this dormant but potentially very interesting division. ATOMWEIGHT Former WBC titleholder Fabiana Bytyqi (No. 4 last month) was finally removed from the 102-pound division after making another jump upward to to score a victory at bantamweight – this after winning a fight at 115 pounds. We’re not sure where she will land, but a return to 102 seems highly unlikely. In a very thin field in boxing’s lightest division, one name stood out due to her 11-0 record and her terrific upside, and that was Mexico’s Camila Zamorano. The teenager (she’s only 17) was thus rated at No. 5 as Nao Ugawa moved up to fill the vacancy left behind by Bytyqi.
3 FEMKE HERMANS
Belgium • 18-5-0 (7 KOs)
4 MARY SPENCER WBA
Canada • 10-2-0 (6 KOs)
5 PRISCILLA PETERLE
France • 11-0-0 (3 KOs)
LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 135 POUNDS
JR. LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 130 POUNDS C ALYCIA BAUMGARDNER RING,IBF,WBA,WBC,WBO U.S. • 15-1-0 (7 KOs) 1 DELFINE PERSOON Belgium • 49-3-0 (19 KOs) 2 LEILA BEAUDOIN Canada • 12-1-0 (1 KO) 3 JENNIFER MIRANDA Spain • 12-0-0 (1 KO) 4 MEA MOTU
FEATHERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 126 POUNDS
C. (VACANT) 1 CAROLINE DUBOIS WBC U.K. • 11-0-1 (5 KOs) 2 BEATRIZ FERREIRA IBF Brazil • 6-0-0 (2 KOs) 3 TERRI HARPER WBO U.K. • 15-2-2 (6 KOs) 4 RHIANNON DIXON U.K. • 10-1-0 (1 KO) 5 BO MI RE SHIN
C AMANDA SERRANO RING,WBA,WBO Puerto Rico • 47-3-1 (31 KOs) 1 TIARA BROWN WBC U.S. • 19-0-0 (11 KOS) 2 SKYE NICOLSON Australia • 12-1-0 (1 KO) 3 NINA MEINKE IBF German • 19-3-0 (4 KOs) 4 SARAH MAHFOUD Denmark • 15-2-0 (3 KOs) 5 DANIELA BERMUDEZ Argentina • 32-5-3 (12 KOs)
New Zealand • 20-1-0 (8 KOs)
South Korea • 18-3-3 (10 KOs)
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proof of that before signing the ballot. Hence, no cake for Fundora just yet, although there is definitely plenty of sweetness awaiting her as she moves on with her extraordinary career. MIDDLEWEIGHT The 160-pound division, historically an elite weight class in male boxing, is one of the most desolate in the women’s realm, boasting only a handful of top-class fighters around the world. It was only a few weeks ago that Australia’s Chloe Chaos crashed the division at No. 5, but after losing to No. 1 contender Desley Robinson, Chaos found herself being replaced by fellow Aussie Kaye Scott, whose only claim to fame is a win over Robinson from last year (which Robinson avenged in December). JUNIOR MIDDLEWEIGHT Another thin division without a dominant fighter in sight, the 154-pound weight class has had very little movement recently. Canada’s Mary Spencer scored a solid win over formerly rated Venezuelan contender Ogleidis Suarez, but it was just enough to keep the 40-year-old Spencer at her current No. 4. In the meantime, Florida’s Elia Carranza is stuck in 6-10 territory until she can
France • 11-0-0 (1 KO)
POUND FOR POUND LIST
BANTAMWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 118 POUNDS
JR. BANTAMWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 115 POUNDS C (VACANT) 1 MIZUKI HIRUTA WBO Japan • 7-0-0 (2 KOs) 2 CARLA MERINO Argentina • 16-2-0 (4 KOs)
FLYWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 112 POUNDS
1 CLARESSA SHIELDS U.S. • 16-0-0 (3 KOs) 2 KATIE TAYLOR Ireland • 24-1-0 (6 KOs) 3 CHANTELLE CAMERON U.K. • 20-1-0 (8 KOs) 4 AMANDA SERRANO 5 DINA THORSLUND 6 GABRIELA FUNDORA U.S. • 16-0-0 (8 KOs) 7 LAUREN PRICE U.K. • 9-0-0 (2 KO) 8 YOKASTA VALLE 9 MIKAELA MAYER U.S. • 21-2-0 (5 KOs) 10 TINA RUPPRECHT Germany 15-1-1 (3 KOs)
C DINA THORSLUND RING,WBC,WBO Denmark • 23-0-0 (9 KOs) 1 CHERNEKA JOHNSON WBA Australia • 17-2-0 (7 KOs) 2 YULIAHN LUNA AVILA Mexico • 28-4-1 (4 KOs) 3 SHURRETTA METCALF IBF U.S. • 14-4-1 (2 KOs) 4 DIANA LAURA FERNANDEZ Mexico • 34-4-1 (5 KOs) 5 NINA HUGHES U.K. • 6-2-0 (2 KOs)
C GABRIELA FUNDORA RING,IBF,WBA,WBC,WBO U.S. • 16-0-0 (8 KOs) 1 GABRIELA ALANIZ
Argentina • 16-2-0 (6 KOs)
3 GINNY FUCHS
2 KENIA ENRIQUEZ
U.S. • 4-0-0 (1 KO)
Mexico • 28-1-0 (11 KOs)
4 ADELAIDA RUIZ
3 ARELY MUCINO
U.S. • 16-1-1 (8 KOs) 5 ASLEY GONZALEZ WBC Mexico • 17-2-0 (7 KOs)
Mexico • 32-5-2 (11 KOs) 4 JAZMINA ZAPOTOCZNA U.K. • 9-1-0 (0 KOs) 5 MARILYN BADILLO AMAYA Mexico • 19-1-1 (3 KOs)
Puerto Rico • 47-3-1 (31 KOs)
Denmark • 23-0-0 (9 KOs)
JR. FLYWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 108 POUNDS
STRAWWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 105 POUNDS C (VACANT) 1 YOKASTA VALLE WBC
ATOMWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 102 POUNDS C TINA RUPPRECHT RING,IBF,WBA,WBC,WBO Germany • 15-1-1 (3 KOs) 1 SUMIRE YAMANAKA Japan • 8-1-0 (3 KOs) 2 ERI MATSUDA Japan • 7-2-1 (1 KO) 3 ESNEIDY RODRIGUEZ OLMOS Mexico • 9-0-1 (0 KOs) 4 NAO UGAWA Japan • 6-0-0 (0 KOs) 5 CAMILA ZAMORANO 11-0-0 (1 KO)
C (VACANT) 1 EVELIN BERMUDEZ IBF,WBO Argentina • 21-1-1 (7 KOs) 2 KIM CLAVEL Canada • 21-2-0 (3 KOs) 3 LOURDES JUAREZ Mexico • 38-4-0 (5 KOs) 4 SARA BAILEY WBA Canada • 6-0 (0 KOs) 5 GABRIELA ALANIZ Argentina • 16-2-0 (6 KOS)
Costa Rica • 33-3-0 (10 KOs)
2 SARAH BORMANN WBO
Germany • 20-1-0 (7 KOs)
Costa Rica • 33-3-0 (10 KOs)
3 YUKO KUROKI WBA
Japan • 24-8-2 (10 KOs)
4 SOL CUDOS IBF
Argentina • 10-0-2 (3 KOs)
5 SOL BAUMSTARH
Argentina • 12-7-1 (8 KOs)
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