RING RATINGS ANALYSIS Through fights of March 8, 2025
JR. MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 154 POUNDS
WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 147 POUNDS C (VACANT) 1 JARON ENNIS IBF
JR. WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 140 POUNDS
MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 160 POUNDS
former flyweight titleholder, was lifted from No. 9 to No. 7. Picking up the slack left by Cuellar’s exit was popular kickboxer-turned-kickless boxer Tenshin Nasukawa, who cracked the ratings at No. 8 with a unanimous decision over former titleholder Jason Moloney, who slipped from No. 7 to No. 9. JUNIOR BANTAMWEIGHT: David Jimenez went from No. 9 to No. 8 after a respectable UD over Keyvin Lara. The move was also informed by the downward trajectory of ultimate underdog and former champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (formerly No. 8), who, after his knockout loss to Jesse Rodriguez in 2022, seems to be enjoying a working retirement fighting low-risk six- and eight-rounders. FLYWEIGHT: Creeping dark horse Ricardo Sandoval got a one-rank promotion to No. 5 and surely gained some more ground toward a title shot by widely outpointing Saleto Henderson (unrated) in Anaheim, California. STRAWWEIGHT: Former titleholder Wilfredo Mendez moved up in weight, so he was removed from the list and the Philippines’ Joey Canoy returned at No. 10.
POUND FOR POUND LIST 1 OLEKSANDR USYK Ukraine • 23-0-0 (14 KOs) 2 NAOYA INOUE Japan • 29-0-0 (26 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 CANELO ALVAREZ Mexico • 62-2-2 (39 KOs) 8 JUNTO NAKATANI Japan • 30-0-0 (23 KOs) 9 DEVIN HANEY U.S. • 31-0-0 (15 KOs) 10 DAVID BENAVIDEZ U.S. • 30-0-0 (24 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 ZHANIBEK ALIMKHANULY IBF, WBO Kazakhstan • 16-0-0 (11 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. • 34-3-0 (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 DENZEL BENTLEY U.K. • 21-3-1 (17 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. • 21-1-1 (13 KOs) 6 SERHII BOHACHUK Ukraine • 25-2-0 (24 KOs) 7 TIM TSZYU Australia • 24-2-0 (17 KOs) 8 CHARLES CONWELL U.S. • 21-0-0 (16 KOs) 9 JESUS RAMOS U.S. • 22-1-0 (18 KOs) 10 XANDER ZAYAS Puerto Rico • 21-0-0 (13 KOs)
C TEOFIMO LOPEZ RING, WBO U.S. • 21-1-0 (13 KOs) 1 DEVIN HANEY U.S. • 31-0-0 (15 KOs) 2 RICHARDSON HITCHINS IBF U.S. • 19-0-0 (7 KOs) 3 ARNOLD BARBOZA U.S. • 32-0-0 (11 KOs) 4 ALBERTO PUELLO WBC Dom. Rep. • 24-0-0 (10 KOs) 5 JACK CATTERALL U.K. • 30-2-0 (13 KOs) 6 LIAM PARO Australia • 25-1-0 (15 KOs) 7 SUBRIEL MATIAS Puerto Rico • 22-2-0 (22 KOs) 8 GARY ANTUANNE RUSSELL WBA U.S. • 18-1-0 (17 KOs) 9 SANDOR MARTIN Spain • 42-4-0 (15 KOs) 10 JOSH TAYLOR U.K. • 19-2-0 (13 KOs)
JUNIOR FEATHERWEIGHT: Luis Nery was promoted from No. 4 to No. 3 after having his way for six rounds against Kyosuke Kameda (unrated), then flooring the Japanese fighter twice and stopping him in the seventh. BANTAMWEIGHT: Nakatani, undefeated and already rated No. 1, sent Cuellar flying backward with a straight left to the solar plexus followed by another to the head for a knockdown in Round 3, then immediately followed up with a crushing left for a second knockdown and the 10-count. Cuellar, who went into the fight rated No. 8, dropped out of the ratings. On that same card, WBA titleholder Seiya Tsutsumi held on to his belt with a draw – 114-114 across the board – in a fight whose ninth frame could be an early candidate for round of the year: Higa floored Tsutsumi with a counter left hook, which fueled a 30-second follow-up attack, and then Higa did a face-plant after Tsutsumi nailed him with a right cross. The rest of the round was Higa weathering an assault from a bleeding Tsutsumi until the bell. These guys are true nemeses, having also fought to a draw in November 2020 (though one judge favored Higa by one point in that bout). Tsutsumi stayed put at No. 3 while Higa, a
U.S. • 33-0-0 (29 KOs) 2 EIMANTAS STANIONIS WBA Lithuania • 15-0-0 (9 KOs) 3 MARIO BARRIOS WBC U.S. • 29-2-1 (18 KOs) 4 DAVID AVANESYAN Russia • 31-5-1 (19 KOs) 5 BRIAN NORMAN JR. WBO U.S. • 26-0-0 (20 KOs) 6 GIOVANI SANTILLAN U.S. • 33-1-0 (18 KOs) 7 SHAKHRAM GIYASOV Uzbekistan • 16-0-0 (9 KOs) 8 JIN SASAKI Japan • 19-1-1 (17 KOs) 9 ALEXIS ROCHA U.S. • 25-2-1 (16 KOs) 10 RAUL CURIEL Mexico • 15-0-1 (13 KOs)
C DMITRY BIVOL RING, IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO Russia • 24-1-0 (12 KOs) 1 ARTUR BETERBIEV Russia • 21-1-0 (20 KOs) 2 DAVID BENAVIDEZ U.S. • 30-0-0 (24 KOs) 3 CALLUM SMITH U.K. • 31-2-0 (22 KOs) 4 ANTHONY YARDE U.K. • 26-3-0 (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 • 20-2-0 (16 KOs) 8 DAVID MORRELL Cuba • 11-1-0 (9 KOs) 9 WILLY HUTCHINSON U.K. • 18-2-0 (13 KOs) 10 IMAM KHATAEV Russia • 9-0-0 (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, WBA, WBC, WBO Mexico • 62-2-2 (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 WILLIAM SCULL IBF Cuba • 23-0-0 (9 KOs) 6 VLADIMIR SHISHKIN Russia • 16-1-0 (10 KOs) 7 BRUNO SURACE France • 26-0-2 (5 KOs) 8 JAIME MUNGUIA Mexico • 44-2-0 (35 KOs) 9 EDGAR BERLANGA U.S. • 22-1-0 (17 KOs) 10 ERIK BAZINYAN Canada • 32-1-1 (23 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 ZHILEI ZHANG China • 27-3-1 (22 KOs) 7 MARTIN BAKOLE Congo • 21-2-0 (16 KOs) 8 FILIP HRGOVIC Croatia • 17-1-0 (14 KOs) 9 FABIO WARDLEY U.K. • 18-0-1 (17 KOs) 10 EFE AJAGBA Nigeria • 20-1-0 (14 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. • 20-2-0 (13 KOs) 3 ALEKSEI PAPIN Russia • 18-1-0 (17 KOs) 4 RICHARD RIAKPORHE U.K. • 17-1-0 (13 KOs) 5 ARSEN GOULAMIRIAN France • 27-1-0 (19 KOs) 6 MICHAL CIESLAK Poland • 27-2-0 (21 KOs) 7 RYAN ROZICKI Canada • 20-1-1 (19 KOs) 8 YAMIL PERALTA Argentina • 17-1-1 (9 KOs) 9 BRANDON GLANTON U.S. • 20-2-0 (17 KOs) 10 LEONARDO MOSQUEA France • 16-0-0 (9 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 • 32-0-0 (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. • 33-7-1 (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 ALBERT BELL U.S. • 26-0-0 (9 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 ANGELO LEO IBF
C NAOYA INOUE RING, IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO Japan • 29-0-0 (26 KOs) 1 MARLON TAPALES Philippines • 39-4-0 (20 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 • 26-5-0 (20 KOs) 8 ELIJAH PIERCE U.S. • 20-2-0 (16 KOs) 9 RAMON CARDENAS U.S. • 26-1-0 (14 KOs) 10 SEBASTIAN HERNANDEZ Mexico • 19-0-0 (18 KOs)
U.S. • 25-1-0 (12 KOs) 2 RAFAEL ESPINOZA WBO Mexico • 26-0-0 (22 KOs) 3 NICK BALL WBA U.K. • 21-0-1 (12 KOs) 4 STEPHEN FULTON WBC U.S. • 23-1-0 (8 KOs) 5 REY VARGAS Mexico • 36-1-1 (22 KOs) 6 LUIS ALBERTO LOPEZ Mexico • 30-3-0 (17 KOs) 7 BRANDON FIGUEROA U.S. • 25-2-1 (19 KOs) 8 MIRCO CUELLO Argentina • 15-0-0 (12 KOs) 9 BRUCE CARRINGTON U.S. • 14-0-0 (8 KOs) 10 ROBEISY RAMIREZ Cuba • 14-3-0 (9 KOs)
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