Current Issue: January 2003

World Ratings January 2003

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: James Toney, 65-4-2 4: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 18-0, WBC 5: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-1, WBO 6: Guillermo Jones (Panama), 29-3-1 7: Alexander Gurov* (Ukraine), 32-3-1 8: O'Neil Bell, 20-1-1 9: Virgil Hill, 48-4 10: Sebastian Rothman (S. Africa), 16-1-2, IBO	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: Montell Griffin, 44-3 6: Mads Larsen* (Denmark), 43-1 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), 29-0, 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), 33-3-1 7: David Starie (GB), 31-2 8: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 30-0, IBO 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: Howard Eastman (GB), 33-1 7: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 8: Raul Marquez*, 34-2 9: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 27-4 10: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 29-3

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT	WELTERWEIGHT
154lbs/11st (Called junior middleweight by the IBF,  super welterweight by the WBC and WBA) 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: Verno Phillips, 34-9-1 7: Bronco McKart*, 45-3 8: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 54-5 9: Santiago Samaniego (Panama), 36-6-1 10: Rodney Jones*, 28-3	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: Andrew Lewis (Guyana), 22-1-1 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: Vivian Harris, 22-1-1, WBA 4: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 35-6 5: Sharmba Mitchell*, 50-3 6: Demarcus Corley*, 27-1-1, WBO 7: Micky Ward, 38-12 8: Ricky Hatton (GB), 30-0, WBU 9: Jesse James Leija, 43-5-2-1 10: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 13-0

135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 29-0, WBC 2: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 46-6-1 3: Stevie Johnston*, 34-2-1 4: Juan Lazcano, 31-2-1 5: Paul Spadafora*, 36-0, 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: Juliens Lorcy (France), 53-3-2

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 32-0, WBA/WBO 2: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 27-1 3: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 29-1, WBU 4: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 38-2 5: Steve Forbes, 22-1 6: Sirimonkol Singmanassak (Thailand), 41-1, WBC 7: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 39-2-1 8: Cassius Baloyi (South Africa), 28-1, IBO 6: Carlos Hernandez, 37-3-1 10: Nate Campbell, 23-0

126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 56-3-0-1 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 42-1 3: Naseem Hamed* (GB), 36-1, IBO 4: Derrick Gainer*, 38-5-1, WBA 5: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 39-2 6: Scott Harrison (GB), 18-1-1, WBO 7: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-12 8: Johnny Tapia, 52-3-2 9: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 44-3 10: Zahir Raheem, 20-0

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT	BANTAMWEIGHT
122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-2 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 35-2-1, IBF 3: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 35-2-1, WBC  4: Salim Medjkoune* (France), 40-3-1, WBA 5: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 18-0, WBO 6: Wayne McCullough (GB), 26-3 7: Willie Jorrin, 28-1-1 8: Bobby Velardez, 24-4-1 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), 39-1-1, WBC 3: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 28-3 4: Johnny Bredahl (Denmark), 53-2, WBA 5: Cruz Carbajal, 22-11-1 6: Toshiaki Nishioka (Japan), 23-2-2 7: Pete Frissina, 26-3-1 8: Adan Vargas (Mexico), 37-4-1 9: Eidy Moya (Venezuela), 15-2 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: Peter Culshaw (GB), 23-1-1, WBF

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 33-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 46-2,  WBC  3: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 27-0, IBF  4: Gerson Guerrero (Mexico), 25-4 5: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 39-6 6: Omar Narvaez (Argentina), 12-0-2, WBO  7: Damaen Kelly (GB), 18-1 8: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 27-4-2 9: Hawk Makepula (South Africa), 20-2 10: Adonis Rivas (Costa Rica), 18-3-1-1

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 31-2-1, WBA 2: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 31-3-1, WBC 3: Melchor Cob Castro* (Mexico), 66-8-4 4: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-2, WBO 5: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-1 6: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 25-2 7: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 49-3-2 8: Alex Sanchez (Puerto Rico), 29-2-1 9: Juanito Rubillar (Philippines), 27-8-6 10: Wendyl Janiola (Philippines), 12-0

105lbs/7st 7lbs (Called mini-flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Jose Antonio Aguirre (Mexico), 28-1-1, 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: Keitaro Moshinu (Japan), 23-8 8: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 18-6-3 9: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 29-1 10: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 17-1

Articles in this issue
ADAPT AND SURVIVE If you thought dropping out of the Lennox Lewis scene would be the end of Frank Maloney, you don't know what the manager's made of. MICHAEL GILL reports on the latest developments in his career	A STREET SURVIVOR Veteran New York fight figure Tommy Gallagher has been around boxing's block enough times to have a few choice tales to tell. STEVE FARHOOD listens and relates	CALL HIM FAMOUS Carlos Hernandez is already a national hero in El Salvador but now Famoso is ready to spread his wings. FIONA MANNING reports	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the January 2003 issue went to press..

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