Current Issue: October 2002

World Ratings October 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, 47-4 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 (Panama), 29-2-1	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr., 47-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF/IBO 2: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 47-0, WBO 3: Antonio Tarver*, 20-1 4: Bruno Girard (France), 42-2-2 5: Mads Larsen* (Denmark), 40-1 6: Clinton Woods (GB), 31-1 7: Montell Griffin, 43-3 8: Eric Harding*, 21-1-1 9: Lou Del Valle*, 31-3-1 10: Reggie Johnson*, 42-7-1

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 34-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 28-0, IBF 3: Eric Lucas (Canada), 36-4-3, 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, 35-2, WBC/WBA 2: Ronald Wright*, 43-3, IBF 3: Fernando Vargas, 22-2 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), 36-6-1 9: Rodney Jones*, 27-3 10: Rhoshii Wells, 15-0-2	147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Vernon Forrest, 35-0-0-1,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: Cory Spinks*, 30-2 8: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-5 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: Sirimonkol Singmanassak (Thailand), 38-1, WBC 8: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 36-2-1 9: Cassius Baloyi (South Africa), 27-1, IBO 10: Nate Campbell, 22-0

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*, 38-5-1, 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), 44-2, 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: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 44-3-1   4: Willie Jorrin, 28-0-1, WBC 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, 23-4-1 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), 38-1-1, WBC 3: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 27-3 4: Johnny Bredahl (Denmark), 52-2, WBA 5: Heriberto Ruiz (Mexico), 26-1-2 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), 27-2-1, WBC 2: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 22-3-1, IBF 3: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 22-0, WBA 4: Gerry Penalosa* (Philippines), 46-4-2 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: Tomas Rojas (Mexico), 19-3-1

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 31-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 45-2, WBC  3: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 23-0-1 4: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 26-0, IBF  5: Gerson Guerrero (Mexico), 24-4 6: Adonis Rivas (Costa Rica), 18-2-1-1, WBO  7: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 39-6 8: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 27-4-2 9: Peter Culshaw (GB), 21-1-1 10: Wandee Charoen (Thailand), 35-4

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), 19-2-2, WBO 6: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-1 7: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 25-2 8: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 49-3-2 9: Alex Sanchez (Puerto Rico), 29-2-1 10: Juanito Rubillar (Philippines), 27-8-6

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), 49-2-2 5: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 21-1-1 6: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 17-2-1-1, WBA 7: Joma Gamboa (Philippines), 31-7-1 8: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 18-6-3 9: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 27-1 10: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 16-1

Articles in this issue
OTHER WORLDLY If anyone thought Roy Jones was starting to fade at age 33, his defence against Clinton Woods proved otherwise. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Portland, Oregon	FROM CONVICT TO CHAMPION Few would have believed that Welshman Jason Cook could bounce back from a spell inside to lift the European lightweight title. Here he tells MICHAEL GILL how he did it	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the October 2002 issue went to press..

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