Current Issue: September 2002

World Ratings September 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), 28-2 WBA 3: Johnny Nelson (GB), 42-12-1, WBO 4: James Toney, 65-4-2 5: Virgil Hill, 46-4 6: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 43-2 7: Alexander Gurov* (Ukraine), 32-3-1 8: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 17-0 9: O'Neil Bell, 19-1-1 10: Guillermo Jones (Cuba), 29-2-1	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr., 46-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF/IBO 2: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 46-0, WBO 3: Antonio Tarver*, 20-1 4: Bruno Girard (France), 41-2-2 5: Mads Larsen* (Denmark), 40-1 6: Clinton Woods (GB), 31-1 7: Montell Griffin, 42-3 8: Eric Harding*, 21-1-1 9: Lou Del Valle*, 31-2-1 10: Reggie Johnson*, 42-7-1

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 34-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 27-0, IBF 3: Eric Lucas (Canada), 35-4-3, WBC 4: Antwun Echols, 29-4-1 5: Robin Reid (GB), 32-3-1 6: Byron Mitchell, 25-1-1, WBA 7: David Starie (GB), 30-2 8: Thomas Tate, 41-7 9: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 25-1 10: Aaron Davis, 49-6	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 41-2-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: William Joppy, 33-2-1, WBA 3: Harry Simon (Namibia), 23-0, WBO 4: Robert Allen*, 33-4-0-1 5: Howard Eastman (GB), 32-1 6: Antonio Perugino (Italy), 21-0 7: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 8: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 27-4 9: Raul Marquez, 34-2 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), 26-2-1-1, WBO 6: Bronco McKart*, 45-3 7: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 54-5 8: Santiago Samaniego (Panama), 35-6-1 9: Rodney Jones*, 27-3 10: Rhoshii Wells, 15-0-2	147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Vernon Forrest, 35-0-0-1, IBF/WBC 2: Shane Mosley, 38-2 3: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 37-1-0-1, WBU 4: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 27-3-0-1, WBO 5: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 30-0 6: Ricardo Mayorga (Costa Rica), 23-1-1-1, WBA 7: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-4 8: Cory Spinks*, 29-2 9: Antonio Diaz, 37-4-0-2 10: Vince Phillips, 44-6-1

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT

140lbs/10st (Called junior welterweight by the IBF and WBO, super lightweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Kostya Tszyu (Aus.), 29-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: Zab Judah*, 28-1-0-1 3: Micky Ward, 38-11 4: Diobelis Hurtado (Cuba), 35-2-1 5: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 34-6 6: Sharmba Mitchell*, 49-3 7: Ricky Hatton (GB), 29-0, WBU 8: Ben Tackie (Ghana), 24-3 9: Jesse James Leija, 43-5-2-1 10: Demarcus Corley*, 27-1-1, WBO

135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 28-0, WBC 2: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 46-5-1 3: Stevie Johnston*, 34-2-1 4: Juan Lazcano, 30-2-1 5: Paul Spadafora*, 35-0, IBF 6: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 34-0, WBO 7: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 21-0, WBA 8: Colin Dunne (GB), 37-1, WBU 9: Angel Manfredy, 39-6-1-1 10: Steve Forbes, 20-1

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: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 27-1, WBU 4: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 37-2 5: Arnulfo Castillo (Mexico), 34-1-3 6: Carlos Hernandez, 37-3-1 7: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 36-2-1 8: Cassius Baloyi (South Africa), 27-1, IBO 9: Sirimonkol Singmanassak (Thailand), 37-1 10: David Santos, 42-5

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: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 38-2 7: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-12 8: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 43-2, WBO 9: William Abelyan*, 20-4-1 10: Scott Harrison (GB), 17-1-1

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT	BANTAMWEIGHT
122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-1 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 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 8: Bobby Velardez, 22-4-1 9: Joan Guzman, 18-0, WBO 10: Genaro Garcia (Mexico), 27-3	118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Tim Austin*, 25-0-1, IBF 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 37-1-1, WBC 3: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 27-3 4: Johnny Bredahl (Denmark), 52-2, WBA 5: Heriberto Ruiz (Mexico), 25-1-2 6: Pete Frissina, 26-3-1 7: Toshiaki Nishioka* (Japan), 22-3-2 8: Cruz Carbajal (Mexico), 22-11-1, WBO 9: Eidy Moya (Venezuela), 15-2 10: Hugo Dianzo (Mexico), 27-7-1

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: Jose Angel Beranza (Mexico), 28-5-1

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), 39-6 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: Miguel Barrera (Colombia), 19-0-2, IBF 4: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 48-2-2 5: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 21-0-1 6: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 17-2-1-1 7: Wandee Charoen (Thailand), 34-4 8: Joma Gamboa (Philippines), 31-7-1 9: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 18-6-3 10: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 27-1

Articles in this issue
CRUNCH TIME HAS ARRIVED It’s been a long wait for Sheffield’s Clinton Woods, but finally he will come face to face with the modern legend Roy Jones. Preview by RICHARD FLETCHER	TUA GIVES MOORER A 30-SECOND NIGHTMARE Former two-time champion is destroyed by electrifying start from rampaging Samoan powerhouse. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the September 2002 issue went to press..

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