Ring Feb 2025

WOMEN’S RING RATINGS ANALYSIS THROUGH FIGHTS OF JANUARY 19, 2025

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)

the next No. 1 in the list. The fighter feeling the pressure at the top of the pound-for-pound rankings will be none other than Claressa Shields, who will be taking on Danielle Perkins in a fight outside her natural weight in the near future. As the current and reigning Ring middleweight champion, Shields is no stranger to changing weights – or even sports (she had a brief stint as an MMA fighter). She was our inaugural middleweight and junior middleweight champion, and she held a couple of super middleweight belts as well. But lack of viable opposition coupled with her desire to accumulate accolades drove Shields to seek title fights in other weight classes that are still not well-defined by boxing commissions and organizations at large. In her last outing, Shields defeated Canada’s Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in a bout that featured both a vacant light heavyweight title and a heavyweight belt but took place within the 175-pound weight limit. This is because any women above 168 pounds are considered heavyweights by the WBC. And now, as we go to press, three vacant heavyweight titles, including one from the WBA that never existed before, are about to go on the line as Shields takes on Danielle Perkins (5-0) in a fight that is potentially designed to cement Shields’ claim as the most decorated female fighter of all time. That’s where another conundrum comes into play: There are only about two dozen active fighters worldwide in those divisions, and more than half of them have a big, round zero in their win column. Fighters with double digits in any column (or in their overall records, even) are also a rarity. It is for this reason that The Ring does not include the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions in its women’s rankings – a decision that is revisited periodically as the sport grows. With this in mind, it will be interesting to see how Shields hangs on to her No. 1 P4P position as the rest of the pack finds more compelling bouts to build their legacies on. It’s not Shields’ fault, but it will end up affecting the discussion of who is the best fighter on this planet as the year trudges on.

C CLARESSA SHIELDS RING,WBA,WBC U.S. • 15-0-0 (3 KOs) 1 DESLEY ROBINSON Australia • 9-3-0 (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 CHLOE CHAOS Australia • 5-1-1 (3 KOs)

C. (VACANT) 1 OSHAE JONES IBF U.S. • 8-0-0 (3 KOs) 2 CECILIA BRAEKHUS

C LAUREN PRICE RING,WBA U.K. • 8-0-0 (2 KO) 1 NATASHA JONAS IBF,WBC U.K. • 16-2-1 (9 KOs) 2 MIKAELA MAYER WBO U.S. • 20-2-0 (5 KOs) 3 SANDY RYAN U.K. • 7-2-1 (3 KOs) 4 JESSICA MCCASKILL U.S. • 12-4-1 (5 KOs) 5 IVANA HABAZIN Croatia • 23-6-0 (7 KOs)

Norway • 38-2-1 (9 KOs)

3 FEMKE HERMANS

Belgium • 18-5-0 (7 KOs)

4 MARY SPENCER WBA Canada • 9-2-0 (6 KOs) 5 PRISCILLA PETERLE France • 11-0-0 (3 KOs)

JR. WELTERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 140 POUNDS

LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 135 POUNDS

JR. LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 130 POUNDS

FEATHERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 126 POUNDS

JR. FEATHERWEIGHTS WEIGHT LIMIT: 122 POUNDS C ELLIE SCOTNEY RING,IBF,WBO U.K. • 9-0-0 (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. • 9-0-0 (3 KOs) 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. • 10-0-0 (7 KOs) 3 FLORA PILI France • 10-0-0 (1 KO) 4 ELIZABETH OSHOBA Nigeria • 8-0 (5 KOs) 5 ELHEM MEKHALED France • 17-3 (3 KOs)

C. (VACANT) 1 CAROLINE DUBOIS WBC U.K. • 10-0-1 (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 MAIRA MONEO Uruguay • 15-2-0 (3 KOs)

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 BO MI RE SHIN

C AMANDA SERRANO RING,WBA,WBO Puerto Rico • 47-3-1 (31 KOs) 1 SKYE NICOLSON WBC Australia • 12-0-0 (1 KO) 2 NINA MEINKE IBF German • 19-3-0 (4 KOs) 3 SARAH MAHFOUD Denmark • 15-2-0 (3 KOs) 4 DANIELA BERMUDEZ Argentina • 32-5-3 (12 KOs) 5 RAVEN CHAPMAN U.K. • 9-1 (2 KOs)

South Korea • 18-2-3 (10 KOs)

3 LEILA BEAUDOIN

Canada • 12-1-0 (1 KO) 4 JENNIFER MIRANDA Spain • 12-0-0 (1 KO) 5 MEA MOTU

The much-anticipated Caroline Dubois-Jessica Camara fight turned into a bloody mess because of a cut on Camara’s eyebrow.

New Zealand • 20-0-0 (8 KOs)

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. • 15-0-0 (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. • 15-0-0 (7 KOs) 7 YOKASTA VALLE 8 ALYCIA BAUMGARDNER U.S. • 15-1-0 (7 KOs) 9 NATASHA JONAS U.K. • 16-2-1 (9 KOs) 10 MIKAELA MAYER U.S. • 20-2-0 (5 KOs)

C DINA THORSLUND RING,WBC,WBO Denmark • 23-0-0 (9 KOs) 1 YULIAHN LUNA AVILA Mexico • 27-4-1 (4 KOs) 2 CHERNEKA JOHNSON WBA Australia • 16-2-0 (6 KOs) 3 NINA HUGHES U.K. • 6-1-0 (2 KOs) 4 SHURRETTA METCALF IBF U.S. • 14-4-1 (2 KOs) 5 MIYO YOSHIDA Japan • 17-5-0 (0 KOs)

C GABRIELA FUNDORA RING,IBF,WBA,WBC,WBO U.S. • 15-0-0 (7 KOs) 1 GABRIELA ALANIZ

Other than that, at a time of the year when only a few relevant fights took place, some of our top-rated contenders saw action with uneven results. On January 11, Caroline Dubois, sister of heavyweight titleholder Daniel and rated No. 1 by The Ring at lightweight, had her WBC title defense cut short quite literally when a gash opened on her foe Jessica Camara’s left eyebrow, prompting an anticlimactic ending – a three-round technical draw – to the month’s most anticipated fight. Dubois was on her way to what looked like an easy victory after dropping the experienced but limited Camara in the first round. On January 17, Japan’s Mizuki Hiruta underwent a similar situation that ended in a better result for her. Hiruta scored a technical decision in eight rounds over a badly cut Maribel Ramirez in a defense of her WBO junior bantamweight title, and thus she also held onto her No. 1 position in a stacked division.

Argentina • 15-2-0 (6 KOs)

3 GINNY FUCHS

2 MARLEN ESPARZA U.S. • 15-2-0 (1 KO) 3 KENIA ENRIQUEZ

U.S. • 4-0-0 (1 KO)

4 ADELAIDA RUIZ

U.S. • 16-1-1 (8 KOs) 5 ASLEY GONZALEZ WBC Mexico • 17-2 (7 KOs)

Mexico • 28-1-0 (11 KOs)

4 ARELY MUCINO

Puerto Rico • 47-3-1 (31 KOs)

Mexico • 32-5-2 (11 KOs)

5 IBETH ZAMORA

Mexico • 33-8-0 (13 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,WBA,WBC,WBO Germany • 14-1-1 (3 KOs) 1 SUMIRE YAMANAKA IBF Japan • 8-0-0 (3 KOs) 2 ERI MATSUDA Japan • 7-2-1 (1 KO) 3 YUKO KUROKI Japan • 23-8-2 (10 KOs) 4 ESNEIDY RODRIGUEZ OLMOS Mexico • 9-0-1 (0 KOs) 5 FABIANA BYTYQI Czech Republic • 21-1-2 (5 KOs)

C (VACANT) 1 EVELIN BERMUDEZ IBF,WBO Argentina • 20-1-1 (7 KOs) 2 KIM CLAVEL Canada • 20-2-0 (3 KOs) 3 SARA BAILEY WBA Canada • 5-0 (0 KOs) 4 LOURDES JUAREZ WBC Mexico • 37-4-0 (4 KOs) 5 ANABEL ORTIZ Mexico • 34-7-0 (4 KOs)

Costa Rica • 32-3-0 (10 KOs)

Costa Rica • 32-3-0 (10 KOs)

2 SARAH BORMANN WBO Germany • 19-1-0 (7 KOs) 3 ANABEL ORTIZ Mexico • 34-7-0 (4 KOs) 4 SOL CUDOS Argentina • 9-0-2 (3 KOs) 5 SOL BAUMSTARH Argentina • 12-6-1 (8 KOs)

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