Current Issue: March 2003

World Ratings March 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: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 18-0, WBC 4: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-1, WBO 5: James Toney, 65-4-2 6: Virgil Hill, 48-4 7: Guillermo Jones (Panama), 29-3-1 8: Alexander Gurov* (Ukraine), 32-3-1 9: O'Neil Bell, 20-1-1 10: Raven Springs, 25-2	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), 43-1 6: Montell Griffin, 44-3 7: Clinton Woods (GB), 33-2 8: Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 23-1 9: Julio Gonzalez, 32-1 10: Stipe Drews, 23-0

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 35-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 29-0, IBF 3: Eric Lucas (Canada), 36-4-3, WBC 4: Byron Mitchell, 25-1-1, WBA 5: Robin Reid (GB), 33-3-1, WBF 6: Antwun Echols, 29-4-1 7: David Starie (GB), 31-2 8: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 26-1 9: Syd Vanderpool* (Canada), 33-2 10: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 30-0, IBA	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: Howard Eastman (GB), 35-1 6: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 7: Roshii Wells, 17-0-2 8: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 27-4 9: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 22-0 10: Morrade Hakkar (France), 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*, 44-3, IBF 3: Fernando Vargas, 22-2 4: Shane Mosley, 38-2-0-1 5: Kassim Ouma*, 17-1-1 6: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 26-2-1-1, WBO 7: Verno Phillips, 34-9-1 8: Bronco McKart*, 45-4 9: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 54-5 10: Santiago Samaniego (Panama), 36-6-1

147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Ricardo Mayorga (Nicaragua), 24-3-1-1, WBA/WBC 2: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 28-3-0-1, WBO 3: Vernon Forrest, 35-1-0-1 4: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 37-1-0-1, IBF 5: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 31-0 6: Cory Spinks*, 30-2 7: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-5 8: Ray Oliveira, 44-8-2 9: Michel Trabant (Germany), 36-0 10: Jawaid Khaliq (GB), 20-1-1, IBO

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT

140lbs/10st (Called junior welterweight by the IBF and WBO, super lightweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Kostya Tszyu (Aus.), 30-1-1, 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*, 51-3 6: Demarcus Corley*, 28-1-1, WBO 7: Ricky Hatton (GB), 31-0, WBU 8: Micky Ward, 38-12 9: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 14-0 10: Mohammed Abdulaev (Uzbekistan), 11-0

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, 32-2-1 5: Paul Spadafora*, 36-0, IBF 6: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 36-0, WBO 7: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 21-0, WBA 8: Diego Corrales, 34-1 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), 28-1 3: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 29-1, WBU 4: Sirimonkol Singmanassak (Thailand), 40-1, WBC 5: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 38-2-1 6: Carlos Hernandez, 38-3-1, IBF 7: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 38-2 8: Steve Forbes, 22-1 9: Cassius Baloyi (South Africa), 28-1, IBO 10: Nate Campbell, 23-1

126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 56-3-0-1 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 42-1, WBC 3: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 40-2, IBF 4: Naseem Hamed* (GB), 36-1, IBO 5: Derrick Gainer*, 38-5-1, WBA 6: Scott Harrison (GB), 18-1-1, WBO 7: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 44-3 8: Zahir Raheem, 20-0 9: Oscar Leon* (Colombia), 23-2, IBA 10: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-13

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT	BANTAMWEIGHT
122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-1 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 35-2-1, IBF 3: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 47-3-1, 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: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 29-3, IBF 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 40-1-1, WBC 3: Johny Bredahl (Denmark), 53-2, WBA 4: Tim Austin*, 25-1-1 5: Cruz Carbajal, 22-11-1, WBO 6: Toshiaki Nishioka (Japan), 23-2-2 7: Pete Frissina, 26-3-1 8: Eidy Moya (Venezuela), 15-2 9: Adan Vargas (Mexico), 37-4-1 10: David Gerault (France), 26-1

SUPER FLYWEIGHT

FLYWEIGHT

115lbs/8st 3lbs (Called junior bantamweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Masamori Tokuyama (Japan), 28-2-1, WBC 2: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 23-0, WBA 3: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 25-0-1, WBO 4: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 29-3-1, IBA 5: Luis Perez (Nicaragua), 21-1, IBF 6: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 22-4-1 7: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 22-1 8: Gerry Penalosa* (Philippines), 46-5-2 9: Mark Johnson*, 40-3-0-1 10: Medgeon Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 29-1

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 32-0, 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), 13-0-2, 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: Victor Burgos (Mexico), 31-12-2, IBF 7: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 25-2 8: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 49-3-2 9: Juanito Rubillar (Philippines), 27-8-6 10: Wendyl Janiola (Philippines), 13-1

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), 50-2-2 4: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 21-1-1 5: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 19-2-1-1, WBA 6: Keitaro Moshinu (Japan), 23-9 7: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 19-6-3 8: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 29-1 9: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 17-1 10: Jorge Mata (Spain), 10-0-2, WBO

Articles in this issue
ONE NIGHT AT YORK HALL STEVE BUNCE takes in the atmosphere on a traditionally historic night at London’s most traditional but threatened boxing venue	GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR Vernon Forrest wasn’t the only one who was shocked when Nicaraguan brawler Mayorga steamrollered him — after all, wasn’t Forrest supposed to have been the best welter in the world? GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from California on the night a boxer chose to fight with a fighter and learned a harsh lesson	NO WIN Shane Mosley looked booked for victory in his light-middle debut, but head clashes busted up Raul Marquez and caused the fight to be stopped and deemed ‘no decision’ — just what Sugar needed coming off back-to-back losses and with his eyes set on a lucrative rematch with Oscar De La Hoya. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Las Vegas	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the March 2003 issue went to press..

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