Current Issue: May 2002

World Ratings May 2002

Each month we bring you the latest world ratings as compiled for the magazine at press-time, listing the latest Top-10 in each of the 17 weight divisions.

Boxers are American unless stated. Fighters won-lost-draw records appear alongside their names. No Contests appear as a fourth figure. An asterisk* denotes southpaw.

where Boxing Monthly also concentrates on a TOP 20 for each of the main UK divisions, giving fighters a real incentive - to break into the top 20 best. The only exceptions are the fly, bantam and s/bantam divisions where we show a British top 15 at present.

CRUISERWEIGHT	LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT
190lbs/13st 8lbs 1: Vassiliy Jirov* (Kazakhstan), 31-0, IBF 2: Jean-Marc Mormeck (France), 27-2, WBA 3: James Toney, 63-4-2 4: Johnny Nelson (GB), 42-12-1, WBO 5: Virgil Hill, 46-4 6: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 43-2 7: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 17-0 8: Alexander Gurov* (Ukraine), 31-3-1 9: Ramon Garbey (Cuba), 16-3 10: O'Neil Bell, 18-1	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr., 46-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF/IBO 2: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 45-0, WBO 3: Eric Harding*, 21-1-1 4: Antonio Tarver*, 19-1 5: Clinton Woods (GB), 31-1 6: Mads Larsen* (Denmark), 40-1 7: Lou Del Valle*, 31-2-1 8: Bruno Girard (France), 40-2-2 9: Reggie Johnson*, 42-7-1 10: Montell Griffin, 41-3

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 32-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 26-0, IBF 3: Eric Lucas (Canada), 35-4-3, WBC 4: Antwun Echols, 26-4-1 5: Thomas Tate, 41-6 6: Byron Mitchell, 24-1-1, WBA 7: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 23-1 8: Robin Reid (GB), 31-3-1 9: David Starie (GB), 10: Manuel Siaca (Puerto Rico), 15-4	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 40-2-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: Felix Trinidad (Puerto Rico), 40-1 3: William Joppy, 33-2-1, WBA 4: Harry Simon (Namibia), 23-0, WBO 5: Keith Holmes*, 35-3 6: Howard Eastman (GB), 32-1 7: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 26-3 8: Robert Allen*, 32-4 9: Erland Betare (France), 34-7-2 10: Armand Krajnc (Sweden), 26-0

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT

WELTERWEIGHT

154lbs/11st (Called junior middleweight by the IBF, super welterweight by the WBC and WBC) 1: Oscar De La Hoya, 34-2, WBC 2: Fernando Vargas, 22-1, WBA 3: Ronald Wright*, 43-3, IBF 4: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 25-2-1-1, WBO 5: Bronco McKart*, 45-3 6: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 52-5 7: Steve Roberts* (GB), 29-0, WBF 8: Mamadou Thiam (France), 38-2 9: Kassim Ouma*, 15-1-1 10: Santiago Samaniego (Panama), 35-6-1

147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Vernon Forrest, 34-0-0-1, IBF/WBC 2: Shane Mosley, 38-1 3: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 36-1-0-1, WBU 4: Andrew Lewis* (Guyana), 21-0-1-1, WBA 5: Antonio Diaz, 37-3-0-2 6: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 27-0 7: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 35-4 8: Cory Spinks*, 29-1 9: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 26-3-0-1 10: Ricardo Mayorga (Costa Rica), 22-3-1-1

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT

140lbs/10st (Called junior welterweight by the IBF and WBO, super lightweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Kostya Tszyu (Aus.), 28-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: Zab Judah*, 27-1-0-1 3: Ben Tackie (Ghana), 24-2 4: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 34-5 5: Ricky Hatton (GB), 28-0, WBU 6: Jesse James Leija, 43-5-2-1 7: Micky Ward, 37-11 8: Demarcus Corley*, 27-1-1, WBO 9: Randall Bailey, 25-1 10: Diobelis Hurtado (Cuba), 34-2-1

135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 45-4-1, WBC 2: Stevie Johnston*, 33-2-1 3: Juan Lazcano, 29-2-1 4: Paul Spadafora*, 35-0, IBF 5: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 34-0, WBO 6: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 20-0, WBA 7: Raul Balbi (Argentina), 48-5-0-1 6: Angel Manfredy, 39-6-1-1 9: Colin Dunne (GB), 36-1 10: Julio Diaz, 24-1

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 27-0, WBC 2: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 31-0, WBA/WBO 3: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 26-1 4: Steve Forbes, 20-1, IBF 5: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 36-2 6: Carlos Hernandez, 36-3-1 7: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 26-1, WBU 8: Alejandro Gonzalez (Mexico), 48-4-1 9: Arnulfo Castillo (Mexico), 34-1-3 10: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 36-2-1

126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 54-3, IBO 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 41-0, WBC 3: Naseem Hamed* (GB), 35-1 4: Derrick Gainer*, 38-5, WBA 5: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-11, IBF 6: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 38-2 7: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 43-2, WBO 8: Johnny Tapia, 51-2-2 9: Scott Harrison (GB), 16-1-1 10: Victor Polo* (Colombia), 30-4-2

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-1 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 33-2-1, IBF 3: Bones Adams, 41-5-3 4: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 42-3-1 5: Agapito Sanchez (Dominican Rep.), 33-7-2, WBO 6: Willie Jorrin, 28-0-1, WBC 7: Yoddamrong Sithyodthong (Thai), 24-0-1, WBA 8: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 31-2 9: Osamu Sato (Japan), 25-1-2 10: John Michael Johnson, 30-8

118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 27-3 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 35-1-1, WBC 3: Tim Austin*, 24-0-1, IBF 4: Toshiaki Nishioka* (Japan), 22-3-1 5: Johnny Bredahl (Denmark), 51-2 6: Genaro Garcia (Mexico), 25-3 7: Heriberto Ruiz (Mexico), 24-1-2 8: Pete Frissina, 25-3-1 9: Cruz Carbajal (Mexico), 22-11-1, WBO 10: Eidy Moya (Venezuela), 15-1, WBA

SUPER FLYWEIGHT

FLYWEIGHT

115lbs/8st 3lbs (Called junior bantamweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Masamori Tokuyama (Japan), 26-2-1, WBC 2: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 22-3-1, IBF 3: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 22-0, WBA 4: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 28-3, IBA 5: Gerry Penalosa* (Philippines), 44-4-2 6: Pedro Alcazar (Panama), 24-1-1, WBO 7: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 21-1 8: Samson* (Thailand), 42-0 9: Mark Johnson*, 40-3-0-1 10: Jesus Rojas* (Venezuela), 36-9-3-1

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 31-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 43-2, WBC 3: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 23-0-1, WBO 4: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 26-0, IBF 5: Alejandro Montiel (Mexico), 48-3, IBA 6: Gerson Guerrero (Mexico), 24-4 7: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 37-6 8: Hawk Makepula (South Africa), 20-1 9: Peter Culshaw (GB), 21-1-1 10: Everardo Morales (Mexico), 19-6-2

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Ricardo Lopez (Mexico), 50-0-1, IBF 2: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 31-2-1, WBA 3: Melchor Cob Castro* (Mexico), 65-8-4 4: Yosam Choi (Korea), 23-1, WBC 5: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 29-3-1 6: Jake Matlala (South Africa), 53-12-2 7: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-1, WBO 8: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-1 9: Pichitnoi Sor Siriwat* (Thailand), 25-2 10: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 47-3-2

105lbs/7st 7lbs (Called mini-flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Jose Antonio Aguirre (Mexico), 27-1-1, WBC 2: Kermin Guardia* (Colombia), 33-2, WBO 3: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 20-0-1, IBF 4: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 47-2-2 5: Keitaro Hoshino (Japan), 23-7, WBA 6: Wandee Charoen (Thailand), 34-3 7: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 16-2-1-1 8: Joma Gamboa (Philippines), 31-7-1 9: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 17-6-3 10: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 27-1

Articles in this issue
A CAREER CATCHES FIRE A month before beating Shane Mosley, no one wanted to know Vernon Forrest. But FIONA MANNING discovers that life has changed drastically for the welter champ	LATIN FURY IN PARTS Britain's light-middles will want a piece of WBO champ Daniel Santos, but welterweight Anthony Margarito looks a tough proposition. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Las Vegas	STALEMATE? Wlad Klitschko's cautious win over Botha suggests the next big thing may be going off the boil? GRAHAM MCLEAN examines why and what can be done to get him on course	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the May 2002 issue went to press..

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