Current Issue: August 2002

World Ratings August 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: James Toney, 64-4-2 3: Jean-Marc Mormeck (France), 27-2WBA 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), 32-3-1 9: Ramon Garbey (Cuba), 16-3 10: O'Neil Bell, 19-1-1	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: Bruno Girard (France), 41-2-2 8: Lou Del Valle*, 31-2-1 9: Reggie Johnson*, 42-7-1 10: Montell Griffin, 42-3

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 33-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 27-0, IBF 3: Eric Lucas (Canada), 35-4-3, WBC 4: Antwun Echols, 28-4-1 5: Byron Mitchell, 24-1-1, WBA 6: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 25-1 7: Robin Reid (GB), 32-3-1 8: David Starie (GB), 30-2 9: Thomas Tate, 41-7 10: Manuel Siaca (Puerto Rico), 16-4	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 41-2-1-1, 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: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 9: Rhoshii Wells, 15-0-2 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: Rodney Jones*, 27-3 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), 23-1-1-1, WBA 6: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-4 7: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 30-0 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), 35-2-1 4: Micky Ward, 38-11 5: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 34-6 6: Demarcus Corley*, 27-1-1, WBO 7: Ricky Hatton (GB), 29-0, WBU 8: Ben Tackie (Ghana), 24-3  9: Jesse James Leija, 43-5-2-1 10: Sharmba Mitchell*, 49-3

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), 21-0, WBA 8: Raul Balbi (Argentina), 48-6-1 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), 27-1 3: Steve Forbes, 20-1, IBF 4: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 27-1, WBU 5: Carlos Hernandez, 37-3-1 6: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 37-2 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 FEATHERWEIGHT - 126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 54-3-0-1 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 41-1 3: Naseem Hamed* (GB), 36-1, IBO 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: Scott Harrison (GB), 17-1-1 10: Michael Brodie (GB), 33-1, WBF

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-1 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 34-2-1, IBF 3: Willie Jorrin, 28-0-1, WBC 4: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 44-3-1  5: Bones Adams, 41-5-3 6: Osamu Sato (Japan), 26-1-2, WBA 7: Agapito Sanchez (Dominican Rep.), 33-7-2, WBO 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), 37-1-1, WBC 3: Tim Austin*, 24-0-1, IBF 4: Toshiaki Nishioka* (Japan), 22-3-2 5: Johnny Bredahl (Denmark), 52-2, WBA 6: Heriberto Ruiz (Mexico), 25-1-2 7: Pete Frissina, 25-3-1 8: Cruz Carbajal (Mexico), 22-11-1, WBO 9: Hugo Dianzo (Mexico), 27-7-1 10: Eidy Moya (Venezuela), 15-2

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: Gerry Penalosa* (Philippines), 45-4-2 5: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 28-3, IBA 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 4: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 26-0, IBF  5: Tomas Rojas (Mexico), 23-3, IBA 6: Gerson Guerrero (Mexico), 24-4 7: Adonis Rivas (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: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 30-3-1, WBC 4: Melchor Cob Castro* (Mexico), 66-8-4 5: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-1, WBO 6: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-1 7: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 25-2 8: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 47-3-2 9: Alex Sanchez (Puerto Rico), 29-2-1 10: Juanito Rubillar (Philippines), 26-8-6

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), 21-0-1, 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
THE FAT LADY STILL HASN’T SUNG Barrera and Morales did it again, and once more the outcome was disputed. But with the scores now level at one win apiece, can the rivals really meet for a third time?  GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Las Vegas	YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE MAD BUT Tracking down fighters at the last second, living in airport lounges, trying to keep managers happy and punters entertained – who’d be a matchmaker? MITCH ABRAMSON meets four examples of this singular breed<	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the August 2002 issue went to press..

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