RING RATINGS ANALYSIS THROUGH FIGHTS OF JANUARY 25, 2025
JR. MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 154 POUNDS
WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 147 POUNDS
JR. WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 140 POUNDS
MIDDLEWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 160 POUNDS
making use of repeated left hooks to the body in carving out a wide unanimous decision. The win was good enough to earn him a lift to No. 8. LIGHTWEIGHT: At some point mentioning his record will become tiresome, but it still needs to be said that Andy Cruz has only had five professional fights and is already being mentioned as a future pound-for-pound star. In his latest win, the Olympic gold medalist dominated Omar Salcido, who’d impressively upset Chris Colbert by ninth-round stoppage in his previous fight, and was awarded a wide unanimous decision. Cruz rose from No. 9 to No. 8 as a result. FLYWEIGHT: Felix Alvarado got a bump from No. 7 to No. 6 after scoring a majority decision over previously undefeated Argentine Tobias Reyes. Reyes, who remained ranked at No. 10, was on the back foot for much of the fight and even played keep-away at times, but accurate punching under pressure and infighting when necessary kept him in the game against the volume attack from Alvarado, who was fighting in his hometown of Managua, Nicaragua. Scores were two 115-112 cards in favor of “El Gamelo” (“The Twin,” so named because of brother Rene Alvarado, who sports the same moniker) and the
third at 114-114. Artem Dalakian hasn’t fought since his January 2024 loss to Seigo Yuri Akui and had nothing scheduled at time of publication, so he was removed from his No. 5 position. Everyone below him moved up, and undefeated Puerto Rican Yankiel Rivera took the resulting vacancy at No. 10. JUNIOR FLYWEIGHT: Carlos Canizales (No. 5 last month) lost a majority decision to Panya Pradabsri (aka Petchmanee CP Freshmart) with the vacant WBC title on the line, but the decision was highly unpopular (see the “World Beat: Thailand” section in this issue), and Canizales was given a one-spot promotion despite the “L.” Freshmart, who was rising from 105 pounds, didn’t get a rating. STRAWWEIGHT: With the departure of Freshmart (rated No. 6), everyone moved up a rank and Joey Canoy of the Philippines moved in at No. 10. Canoy was later replaced by Yuni Takada, who, despite the lackluster win/loss numbers that had established him as the underdog, notched a very confident split decision victory over countryman Goki Kobayashi on the Inoue- Kim undercard.
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 ARTUR BETERBIEV Russia • 21-0-0 (20 KOs) 5 DMITRY BIVOL Russia • 23-1-0 (12 KOs) 6 JESSE RODRIGUEZ U.S. • 21-0-0 (14 KOs) 7 CANELO ALVAREZ Mexico • 62-2-2 (39 KOs) 8 GERVONTA DAVIS U.S. • 30-0-0 (28 KOs) 9 JUNTO NAKATANI Japan • 29-0-0 (22 KOs) 10 DEVIN HANEY U.S. • 31-0-0 (15 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 ZHANIBEK ALIMKHANULY IBF, WBO Kazakhstan • 16-0-0 (11 KOs) 2 HAMZAH SHEERAZ U.K. • 21-0-0 (17 KOs) 3 CARLOS ADAMES WBC Dom. Rep. • 24-1-0 (18 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 ISRAIL MADRIMOV Uzbekistan • 10-1-1 (7 KOs) 3 BAKHRAM MURTAZALIEV IBF Russia • 23-0-0 (17 KOs) 4 SEBASTIAN FUNDORA WBC, WBO U.S. • 21-1-1 (13 KOs) 5 VERGIL ORTIZ U.S. • 22-0-0 (21 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. • 21-1-0 (17 KOs) 10 BRIAN MENDOZA U.S. • 22-4-0 (16 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 JARON ENNIS IBF
C TEOFIMO LOPEZ RING, WBO U.S. • 21-1-0 (13 KOs) 1 DEVIN HANEY U.S. • 31-0-0 (15 KOs) 2 JACK CATTERALL U.K. • 30-1-0 (13 KOs) 3 ALBERTO PUELLO WBC Dom. Rep. • 23-0-0 (10 KOs) 4 RICHARDSON HITCHINS IBF U.S. • 19-0-0 (7 KOs) 5 LIAM PARO Australia • 25-1-0 (15 KOs) 6 SUBRIEL MATIAS Puerto Rico • 21-2-0 (21 KOs) 7 JOSH TAYLOR U.K. • 19-2-0 (13 KOs) 8 ANDY HIRAOKA Japan • 24-0-0 (19 KOs) 9 ARNOLD BARBOZA U.S. • 31-0-0 (11 KOs) 10 JOSE VALENZUELA WBA U.S. • 14-2-0 (9 KOs)
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)
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 • 35-3-0 (23 KOs) 4 ZHILEI ZHANG China • 27-2-1 (22 KOs) 5 AGIT KABAYEL Germany • 25-0-0 (17 KOs) 6 MARTIN BAKOLE Congo • 21-1-0 (16 KOs) 7 ANTHONY JOSHUA U.K. • 28-4-0 (25 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
C ARTUR BETERBIEV RING, IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO Russia • 21-0-0 (20 KOs) 1 DMITRY BIVOL Russia • 23-1-0 (12 KOs) 2 DAVID BENAVIDEZ U.S. • 29-0-0 (24 KOs) 3 JOSHUA BUATSI U.K. • 19-0-0 (13 KOs) 4 ANTHONY YARDE U.K. • 26-3-0 (24 KOs) 5 ALBERT RAMIREZ Venezuela • 19-0-0 (16 KOs) 6 CALLUM SMITH U.K. • 30-2-0 (22 KOs) 7 OLEKSANDR GVOZDYK Ukraine • 20-2-0 (16 KOs) 8 DAVID MORRELL Cuba • 11-0-0 (9 KOs) 9 WILLY HUTCHINSON U.K. • 18-2-0 (13 KOs) 10 IMAM KHATAEV Russia • 9-0-0 (9 KOs)
C (VACANT) 1 GERVONTA DAVIS WBA U.S. • 30-0-0 (28 KOs) 2 VASILIY LOMACHENKO IBF Ukraine • 18-3-0 (12 KOs) 3 SHAKUR STEVENSON WBC U.S. • 22-0-0 (10 KOs) 4 WILLIAM ZEPEDA Mexico • 32-0-0 (27 KOs) 5 KEYSHAWN DAVIS U.S. • 12-0-0 (8 KOs) 6 DENYS BERINCHYK WBO Ukraine • 19-0-0 (9 KOs) 7 RAYMOND MURATALLA U.S. • 22-0-0 (17 KOs) 8 ANDY CRUZ Cuba • 5-0-0 (2 KOs) 9 FRANK MARTIN U.S. • 18-1-0 (12 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. • 25-1-1 (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 ALBERT BATYRGAZIEV Russia • 11-0-0 (8 KOs) 9 EDUARDO HERNANDEZ Mexico • 36-2-0 (32 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 SAM GOODMAN Australia • 19-0-0 (8 KOs) 4 LUIS NERY Mexico • 35-2-0 (27 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. • 25-1-0 (14 KOs) 10 SEBASTIAN HERNANDEZ Mexico • 18-0-0 (17 KOs)
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 • 19-1-0 (18 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)
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 REY VARGAS Mexico • 36-1-1 (22 KOs) 5 LUIS ALBERTO LOPEZ Mexico • 30-3-0 (17 KOs) 6 BRANDON FIGUEROA WBC U.S. • 25-1-1 (19 KOs) 7 MIRCO CUELLO Argentina • 14-0-0 (11 KOs) 8 BRUCE CARRINGTON U.S. • 14-0-0 (8 KOs) 9 ROBEISY RAMIREZ Cuba • 14-3-0 (9 KOs) 10 OMAR TRINIDAD U.S. • 18-0-1 (13 KOs)
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