Current Issue: November 2002

World Ratings November 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: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 18-0, WBC 6: Virgil Hill, 47-4 7: Alexander Gurov* (Ukraine), 32-3-1 8: O'Neil Bell, 19-1-1 9: Guillermo Jones (Panama), 29-2-1 10: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 43-2	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), 41-1 6: Montell Griffin, 43-3 7: Clinton Woods (GB), 32-2 8: Eric Harding*, 21-2-1 9: Lou Del Valle*, 31-3-1 10: Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 23-1

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: Byron Mitchell, 25-1-1, WBA 6: Robin Reid (GB), 32-3-1 7: David Starie (GB), 31-2 8: Thomas Tate, 41-7 9: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 26-1 10: Danilo Haussler (Germany), 20-0	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 41-2-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: William Joppy, 34-2-1, WBA 3: Harry Simon (Namibia), 23-0, WBO 4: Robert Allen*, 33-4-0-1 5: Antonio Perugino (Italy), 21-0 6: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 7: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 27-4 8: Raul Marquez*, 34-2 9: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 21-0 10: Mourade Hakkar (France), 29-3

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*, 17-1-1 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, 16-0-2	147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Vernon Forrest, 35-0-0-1,WBC 2: Shane Mosley, 38-2  3: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 27-3-0-1, WBO 4: Ricardo Mayorga (Costa Rica), 23-3-1-1, WBA 5: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 37-1-0-1, WBU 6: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 31-0 7: Cory Spinks*, 30-2 8: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-5 9: Antonio Diaz, 37-4-0-2 10: Michel trabant (Germany), 36-0

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), 30-0, WBU 8: Jesse James Leija, 43-5-2-1 9: Demarcus Corley*, 27-1-1, WBO 10: Vivian Harris, 21-1-1

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, 31-2-1 5: Paul Spadafora*, 35-0, IBF 6: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 35-0, WBO 7: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 21-0, WBA 8: Colin Dunne (GB), 38-1, WBU 9: Angel Manfredy, 40-6-1-1 10: Steve Forbes, 21-1

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 32-0, WBA/WBO 2: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 27-1 3: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 28-1, WBU 4: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 37-2 5: Arnulfo Castillo (Mexico), 35-1-3 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), 55-3-0-1 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), 39-2 7: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-12 8: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 44-2, WBO 9: Scott Harrison (GB), 17-1-1 10: Zahir Raheem, 20-0

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), 45-3-1  4: Willie Jorrin, 28-0-1, WBC 5: Bones Adams, 41-5-3 6: Salim Medjkoune (France), 40-3-1, WBA 7: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 18-0, WBO 8: Bobby Velardez, 23-4-1 9: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 33-3 10: Osamu Sato (Japan), 26-2-2	118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Tim Austin*, 25-0-1, IBF 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 38-1-1, WBC 3: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 28-3 4: Johnny Bredahl (Denmark), 52-2, WBA 5: Cruz Carbajal (Mexico), 22-11-1, WBO 6: Pete Frissina, 26-3-1 7: Eidy Moya (Venezuela), 15-2 8: Adan Vargas (Mexico), 37-4-1 9: Spend Abazi (Denmark), 23-1 10: David Gerault (France), 26-1

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), 23-0, WBA 4: Gerry Penalosa* (Philippines), 46-4-2 5: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 24-0-1, WBO 6: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 28-3, IBA 7: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 21-1 8: Mark Johnson*, 40-3-0-1 9: Saen Sor Ploenchit (Thailand), 43-1 10: Tomas Rojas (Mexico), 19-3-1

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 32-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 45-2, WBC  3: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 26-0, IBF  4: Gerson Guerrero (Mexico), 25-4 5: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 39-6 6: Omar Narvaez (Argentina), 12--0-2, WBO  7: Peter Culshaw (GB), 22-1-1 8: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 27-4-2 9: Damaen Kelly (GB), 18-0-1 10: Adonis Rivas (Costa Rica), 18-3-1-1

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), 19-2-2, 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: Miguel Barrera (Colombia), 19-0-2, IBF 3: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 49-2-2 4: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 21-1-1 5: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 17-2-1-1, WBA 6: Joma Gamboa (Philippines), 31-7-1 7: Kermin Guardia* (Colombia), 33-2, WBO 8: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 18-6-3 9: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 27-1 10: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 16-1

Articles in this issue
UPSETS HAPPEN Erik Morales has shown an ability to win a fight he appears to have lost and vice versa, while Paulie Ayala has a tendency to win fights he is supposed to lose — don’t bet the house on the result of their meeting in Las Vegas this month. Preview by GRAHAM HOUSTON	SIBLING ARRIVAL There’s a new Maloney on the promotional block and Frank’s younger brother, Eugene, has the opportunity to emulate the Mental Midget by guiding and riding the wave of a highly rated amateur international heavyweight who has decided to turn pro. MICHAEL GILL meets with a man on the up	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the November 2002 issue went to press..

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