Current Issue: June 2002

World Ratings June 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, 18-1-1	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr., 46-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF/IBO 2: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 46-0, 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), 33-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 26-0, IBF 3: Eric Lucas (Canada), 35-4-3, WBC 4: Antwun Echols, 27-4-1 5: Thomas Tate, 41-6 6: Byron Mitchell, 24-1-1, WBA 7: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 25-1 8: Robin Reid (GB), 31-3-1 9: David Starie (GB),29-2 10: Manuel Siaca (Puerto Rico), 16-4	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 40-2-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: Felix Trinidad (Puerto Rico), 41-1 3: William Joppy, 33-2-1, WBA 4: Harry Simon (Namibia), 23-0, WBO 5: Howard Eastman (GB), 32-1 6: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 27-3 7: Robert Allen*, 32-4-0-1 8: Keith Holmes*, 35-3 9: Erland Betare (France), 34-7-2 10: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 21-0

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: Kassim Ouma*, 16-1-1 5: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 25-2-1-1, WBO 6: Bronco McKart*, 45-3 7: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 53-5 8: Steve Roberts* (GB), 29-0, WBF 9: Mamadou Thiam (France), 38-2 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), 37-1-0-1, WBU 4: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 27-3-0-1 WBO 5: Ricardo Mayorga (Costa Rica), 23-3-1-1 WBA 6: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-4 7: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 29-0 8: Cory Spinks*, 29-2 9: Antonio Diaz, 37-4-0-2 10: Jan Bergman (South Africa), 42-3, WBU

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT

140lbs/10st (Called junior welterweight by the IBF and WBO, super lightweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Kostya Tszyu (Aus.), 29-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: Zab Judah*, 27-1-0-1 3: Diobelis Hurtado (Cuba), 34-2-1 4: Micky Ward, 38-11 5: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 34-6 6: Ben Tackie (Ghana), 24-3 7: Ricky Hatton (GB), 28-0, WBU 8: Jesse James Leija, 45-5-2-1 9: Omar Weis (Argentina), 35-3-3 10: Demarcus Corley*, 27-1-1, WBO

135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 28-0, WBC 2: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 45-5-1 3: Stevie Johnston*, 34-2-1 4: Juan Lazcano, 29-2-1 5: Paul Spadafora*, 35-0, IBF 6: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 34-0, WBO 7: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 20-0, WBA 8: Raul Balbi (Argentina), 48-5-0-1 9: Angel Manfredy, 39-6-1-1 10: Colin Dunne (GB), 37-1, WBU

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 31-0, WBA/WBO 2: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 26-1 3: Steve Forbes, 20-1, IBF 4: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 36-2 5: Carlos Hernandez, 36-3-1 6: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 26-1, WBU 7: Arnulfo Castillo (Mexico), 34-1-3 8: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 36-2-1 9: Cassius Baloyi (South Africa), 27-1, IBO 10: Sirimonkol Singmanassak (Thailand), 37-1

126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 54-3-0-1 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 41-0, WBC 3: Naseem Hamed* (GB), 36-1 4: Derrick Gainer*, 38-5, WBA 5: Johnny Tapia, 52-2-2, IBF 6: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-12 7: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 38-2 8: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 43-2, WBO 9: Michael Brodie (GB), 33-1, WBF 10: Scott Harrison (GB), 16-1-1

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), 44-3-1 5: Agapito Sanchez (Dominican Rep.), 33-7-2, WBO 6: Willie Jorrin, 28-0-1, WBC 7: Osamu Sato (Japan), 26-1-2, WBA 8: Genaro Garcia (Mexico), 27-3 9: John Michael Johnson, 30-8 10: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 32-3

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), 25-0-1, WBO 7: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 21-1 8: Mark Johnson*, 40-3-0-1 9: Jesus Rojas* (Venezuela), 35-9-3-1 10: Celes Kobayashi* (Japan), 24-5-3

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 31-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 44-2, 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: Adonis Rivera (Costa Rica), 18-2-1-1, WBO 8: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 38-6 9: Hawk Makepula (South Africa), 20-1 10: Peter Culshaw (GB), 21-1-1

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), 24-1, WBC 5: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 29-3-1 6: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-1, WBO 7: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-1 8: Pichitnoi Sor Siriwat* (Thailand), 25-2 9: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 47-3-2 10: Alex Sanchez (Puerto Rico), 29-2-1

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), 48-2-2 5: Keitaro Hoshino (Japan), 23-7, WBA 6: Wandee Charoen (Thailand), 34-4 7: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 16-2-1-1 8: Joma Gamboa (Philippines), 31-7-1 9: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 18-6-3 10: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 27-1

Articles in this issue
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS It wasn't spectacular, but Kostya Tszyu didn't need to move out of second gear to beat Tackie with ease. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Las Vegas	THUMBS DOWN It was hardly a heroic homecoming for Naseem Hamed as he ended his 13-month exile. Indeed, his future prospects look bleak on the strength of his performance against Manuel Calvo. MICHAEL GILL reports from the Docklands Arena, London	IN BLACK AND WHITE NEIL ALLEN recalls the life and troubled times of British training legend George Francis, who tragically committed suicide and will be remembered for his work on behalf of black fighters and much more	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the June 2002 issue went to press..

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