Current Issue: May 2003

World Ratings May 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: James Toney, 65-4-2 5: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-1, WBO 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: Vincenzo Cantatore (Italy), 28-3	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr., 48-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF/IBO, WBA heavyweight 2: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 48-0, WBO 3: Antonio Tarver*, 20-1 4: Mehdi Sahnoune (France), 24-0, WBA 5: Montell Griffin, 44-3 6: Clinton Woods (GB), 33-2 7: Bruno Girard (France), 42-3-2 8: Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 23-1 9: Julio Gonzalez, 32-1 10: Lou Del Valle, 31-3-1

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 35-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 30-0, IBF/WBA 3: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 27-1, WBC 4: Eric Lucas (Canada), 36-5-3 5: Byron Mitchell, 25-2-1 6: Robin Reid (GB), 33-3-1, WBF 7: Antwun Echols, 29-4-1 8: Syd Vanderpool* (Canada), 33-2 9: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 30-0, IBA 10: Danilo Haussler (Germany), 21-0	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 42-2-1-1, WBC/WBA super, IBF 2: William Joppy, 34-2-1, WBA 3: Howard Eastman (GB), 36-1 4: Robert Allen*, 33-4-0-1 5: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 6: Jermain Taylor, 15-0 7: Aaron Mitchell, 21-1-1 8: Eric Mitchell, 16-3-1 9: Tito Mendoza (Panama), 27-4 10: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 22-0

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 2: Ronald Wright*, 44-3, IBF 3: Fernando Vargas, 22-2 4: Shane Mosley, 38-2-0-1 5: Alex Terra Garcia (Mexico), 21-0, WBA 6: Kassim Ouma*, 17-1-1 7: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 26-2-1-1, WBO 8: Verno Phillips, 34-9-1 9: Bronco McKart*, 45-4 10: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 54-5

147lbs/10st 7lbs WELTERWEIGHT - 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: Cory Spinks*, 31-2, IBF 5: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 37-2-0-1 6: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 31-0 7: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-5 8: Ray Oliveira, 44-8-2 9: Jawaid Khaliq (GB), 21-1-1, IBO 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.), 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), 32-0, 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, 41-6-1-1 10: Victoriano Sosa (Dominican Republic), 35-2-2

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 32-0, WBA super/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, WBA 6: Carlos Hernandez, 38-3-1, IBF 7: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 39-2 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), 57-3-0-1 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 42-1, WBC 3: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 40-2, IBF 4: Derrick Gainer*, 39-5-1, WBA 5: Scott Harrison (GB), 189-1-1, WBO 6: Naseem Hamed* (GB), 36-1, IBO 7: Juan Pablo Chacon (Argentina), 44-3 8: Zahir Raheem, 20-0 9: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 60-13 10: Michael Brodie (GB), 34-1

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), 26-4 7: Willie Jorrin, 28-1-1 8: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 33-3 9: Osamu Sato (Japan), 26-2-2 10: Kozo Ishii (Japan), 30-3

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, 23-11-1, WBO 6: Toshiaki Nishioka (Japan), 23-2-2 7: Pete Frissina, 26-3-1 8: Ricardo Vargas (Mexico), 34-9-3 9: Noel Wilders (GB), 23-0-1 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: Mark Johnson*, 40-3-0-1 9: Medgeon Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 29-1 10: Peter Culshaw (GB), 24-1-1

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 32-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 46-2, WBC  3: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 27-0, IBF  4: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 39-6 5: Omar Narvaez (Argentina), 13-0-2, WBO  6: Damaen Kelly (GB), 18-1 7: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 27-4-2 8: Hawk Makepula (South Africa), 20-2 9: Andrea Sarritzu (Italy), 17-2-1 10: Hidenobu Honda* (Japan), 25-2

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 32-2-1, WBA 2: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 33-3-1, WBC 3: Melchor Cob Castro* (Mexico), 66-8-4 4: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-2, WBO 5: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-2 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), 20-0-2, IBF 3: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 50-2-2 4: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 19-2-1-1, WBA 5: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 21-2-1 6: Keitaro Hoshinu (Japan), 23-9 7: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 19-6-3 8: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 31-1-1 9: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 17-1 10: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 15-0

Articles in this issue
WAY TOO EASY In all honesty, Kevin Kelley offered nothing but bullshit and target practice when he stepped into the ring with the world’s leading featherweight Marco Antonio Barrera. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from ringside  on an unsatisfactory night in Las Vegas	FLASHBACK OR GLIMPSE OF FUTURE? GRAHAM HOUSTON ponders whether the USA freeTV network NBC’s announcement of experimental boxing coverage might result in an era the likes of which spawned genuine superstars such as Hearns and Hagler	A WINNING TEAM The unbeaten run of super feather champ Acelino Freitas continues, but trainer Oscar Suarez is adding some craft to the Brazilian banger’s arsenal. STEVE FARHOOD reports from ringside in Chicago	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the May 2003 issue went to press..

 Next issue on sale:
24 May 2003