RING RATINGS ANALYSIS Through fights of April 5, 2025
Women’s Ring Ratings Analysis Through fights of April 8, 2025 • By Diego Morilla
BANTAMWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 118 POUNDS C (VACANT) 1 JUNTO NAKATANI WBC Japan • 30-0-0 (23 KOs) 2 RYOSUKE NISHIDA IBF Japan • 10-0-0 (2 KOs) 3 SEIYA TSUTSUMI WBA Japan • 12-0-3 (8 KOs) 4 YOSHIKI TAKEI WBO Japan • 10-0-0 (8 KOs) 5 TAKUMA INOUE Japan • 20-2-0 (5 KOs) 6 EMMANUEL RODRIGUEZ Japan • 21-3-2 (19 KOs) 8 TENSHIN NASUKAWA Japan • 6-0-0 (2 KOs) 9 JASON MOLONEY Australia • 27-4-0 (19 KOs) 10 JEYVIER CINTRON Puerto Rico • 13-1-0 (6 KOs) 7 DAIGO HIGA
JR. BANTAMWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 115 POUNDS C JESSE RODRIGUEZ RING, WBC U.S. • 21-0-0 (14 KOs) 1 FERNANDO MARTINEZ WBA Argentina • 17-0-0 (9 KOs) 2 JUAN FRANCISCO ESTRADA Mexico • 44-4-0 (28 KOs) 3 KAZUTO IOKA Japan • 31-3-1 (16 KOs) 4 PHUMELELE CAFU WBO South Africa • 11-0-3 (8 KOs) 5 KOSEI TANAKA Japan • 20-2-0 (11 KOs) 6 CARLOS CUADRAS Mexico • 43-5-1 (28 KOs) 7 ANDREW MOLONEY Australia • 27-4-0 (17 KOs) 8 DAVID JIMENEZ Costa Rica • 17-1-0 (11 KOs) 9 SRISAKET SOR RUNGVISAI Thailand • 58-6-1 (47 KOs) 10 PEDRO GUEVARA Mexico • 42-5-1 (22 KOs)
FLYWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 112 POUNDS
JR. FLYWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 108 POUNDS C (VACANT) 1 RENE SANTIAGO WBO Puerto Rico • 14-4-0 (9 KOs) 2 SIVENATHI NONTSHINGA S. Africa • 13-2-0 (10 KOs) 3 SHOKICHI IWATA Japan • 14-2-0 (11 KOs) 4 CARLOS CANIZALES Venezuela • 27-3-1 (19 KOs) 5 ADRIAN CURIEL Mexico • 25-6-1 (5 KOs) 6 THANONGSAK SIMSRI Thailand • 38-1-0 (34 KOs) 7 CRISTIAN ARANETA Philippines • 25-2-0 (20 KOs) 8 REGIE SUGANOB Philippines • 16-1-0 (6 KOs) 9 ERICK ROSA WBA Dom. Rep. • 8-0-0 (2 KOs) 10 PANYA PRADABSRI Thailand • 44-2-0 (27 KOs)
C ( VACANT) 1 KENSHIRO TERAJI WBA, WBC Japan • 25-1-0 (16 KOs) 2 SEIGO YURI AKUI Japan • 21-3-1 (11 KOs) 3 MASAMICHI YABUKI IBF Japan • 18-4-0 (17 KOs) 4 GALAL YAFAI U.K. • 9-0-0 (7 KOs) 5 RICARDO SANDOVAL U.S. • 26-2-0 (18 KOs) 6 ANGEL AYALA Mexico • 18-1-0 (8 KOs) 7 FELIX ALVARADO Nicaragua • 42-4-0 (35 KOs) 8 ANTHONY OLASCUAGA WBO U.S. • 9-1-0 (6 KOs) 9 FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ JR. Mexico • 39-6-1 (27 KOs) 10 TOBIAS REYES Argentina • 16-1-1 (15 KOs)
Puerto Rico • 22-3-0 (13 KOs)
STRAWWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 105 POUNDS
HOW OUR RATINGS ARE COMPILED RECORDS PROVIDED BY BOXREC.COM
C OSCAR COLLAZO RING, WBA, WBO U.S. • 12-0-0 (9 KOs) 1 MELVIN JERUSALEM WBC Philippines • 24-3-0 (12 KOs) 2 PEDRO TADURAN IBF Philippines • 17-4-1 (13 KOs) 3 KNOCKOUT CP FRESHMART Thailand • 25-1-0 (9 KOs) 4 GINJIRO SHIGEOKA Japan • 11-1-0 (9 KOs) 5 HASANBOY DUSMATOV Uzbekistan • 6-0-0 (5 KOs) 6 YUDAI SHIGEOKA Japan • 9-2-0 (5 KOs) 7 DIANXING ZHU China • 14-1-0 (12 KOs) 8 SIYAKHOLWA KUSE S. Africa • 8-2-1 (4 KOs) 9 YUNI TAKADA Japan • 16-8-3 (6 KOs) 10 JOEY CANOY Philippines • 23-5-2 (14 KOs)
Championship vacancies can be filled in the following two ways: 1. The Ring’s Nos. 1 and 2 contenders fight one another. 2. If the Nos. 1 and 2 contenders choose not to fight one another and No. 1 fights No. 3, that matchup could be for the Ring title if the Editorial Board deems No. 3 worthy. A champion can lose their belt in six sit- uations: 1. The Champion loses a fight in the weight class in which they are cham- pion; 2. The Champion moves to another weight class; 3. The Champion does not schedule a fight in any weight class for 18 months, although injuries and certain other
unforeseen circumstances could be taken into consideration; 4. The Champion does not schedule a fight at their championship weight for 18 months (even if they fight at another weight); 5. The Champion does not schedule a fight with a Top-5 contender from any weight class for two years; 6. The Champion retires. The Ring Editorial Board considers input from the Ratings Panel of boxing jour- nalists from around the world and then decides collectively what changes will be made. That applies to both the pound-for- pound and divisional ratings.
POUND-FOR-POUND: In a few short weeks, several changes took place in the mythical ranking of the best fighters in the world regardless of weight. Costa Rica’s Yokasta Valle (No. 8 last month) was the first fighter to receive consideration for an upgrade after a non-title flyweight bout against former Ring champion Marlen Esparza in Mexico. Valle looked
Yokasta Valle (left) catches Marlen Esparza during an exchange.
her usual aggressive and awesome self in dissecting Esparza to win a split decision, but was not deemed impressive enough to one-up Ring welterweight queen Lauren Price, who entered the list last month after defeating Natasha Jonas. A different situation sprang from Mikaela Mayer’s win over Sandy Ryan, in which Mayer erased all doubts in the rematch
of what is shaping up as a historic rivalry. The U.S. Olympian (No. 10 last month) got shortchanged when Price broke into the ratings and pushed everyone below down
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