Current Issue: September 2003

World Ratings September 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: Jean-Marc Mormeck (France), 29-2, WBA 2: James Toney, 65-4-2, IBF 3: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 19-0, WBC 4: Vassiliy Jirov* (Kazakhstan), 32-1 5: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-1, WBO 6: Virgil Hill, 49-4 7: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 45-2 8: Guillermo Jones (Panama), 29-3-1 9: O'Neil Bell, 20-1-1 10: Sebastian Rothman (South Africa), 17-1-2, IBO	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 48-0, WBO 2: Antonio Tarver*, 21-1 3: Mehdi Sahnoune (France), 24-0, WBA 4: Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 24-1 5: Clinton Woods (GB), 35-2 6: Montell Griffin, 44-4 7: Bruno Girard (France), 42-3-2 8: Julio Gonzalez, 34-1 9: Paul Briggs (Australia), 20-1 10: Stipe Drews (Croatia), 24-0

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 36-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 31-0, IBF/WBA 3: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 27-1, WBC 4: Eric Lucas (Canada), 36-5-3 5: Mads Larsen (Denmark), 44-1 6: Byron Mitchell, 25-3-1 7: Robin Reid (GB), 34-3-1, WBF 8: Antwun Echols, 29-4-1 9: Syd Vanderpool* (Canada), 34-2 10: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 31-0, IBA	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), 38-1 4: Robert Allen*, 35-4-0-1 5: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 6: Jermain Taylor, 17-0 7: Keith Holmes, 36-3 8: Aaron Mitchell, 21-1-1 9: Eric Mitchell, 16-3-1 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, 36-2, WBC 2: Ronald Wright*, 45-3, IBF 3: Fernando Vargas, 23-2 4: Shane Mosley, 38-2-0-1 5: Alex Terra Garcia (Mexico), 21-0, WBA 6: Verno Phillips, 35-9-1 7: Kassim Ouma*, 17-1-1-1 8: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 27-2-1-1, WBO 9: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 55-5 10: J.C. Candelo, 26-5-3

147lbs/10st 7lbs WELTERWEIGHT - 147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Ricardo Mayorga (Nicaragua), 25-3-1-1, WBA/WBC 2: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 28-3-0-1, WBO 3: Vernon Forrest, 35-2-0-1 4: Cory Spinks*, 31-2, IBF 5: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 39-2-0-1 6: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 31-0 7: Teddy Reid, 22-5-1 8: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 37-5 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*, 29-1-0-1, WBO 3: Vivian Harris, 23-1-1, WBA 4: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 36-6 5: Sharmba Mitchell*, 52-3 6: Ricky Hatton (GB), 32-0, WBU 7: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 16-0 8: Demarcus Corley*, 28-2-1 9: Paul Spadafora*, 36-0-1 10: Jesse James Leija, 44-6-2

135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 30-0, WBC 2: Diego Corrales, 37-1 3: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 46-6-1 4: Stevie Johnston*, 35-2-1 5: Juan Lazcano, 32-2-1 6: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 36-0, WBO 7: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 21-0-1, WBA 8: Javier Jauregui (Mexico), 46-10-2 9: Courtney Burton, 19-1 10: Julio Diaz, 28-2

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 33-0, WBA super/WBO 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 44-1 3: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 28-1 4: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 31-1, WBU 5: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 39-2 6: Sirimonkol Singmanassak (Thailand), 41-1, WBC 7: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 38-2-1, WBA 8: Carlos Hernandez, 39-3-1, IBF 9: Steve Forbes, 22-1 10: Jorge Barrios, Argentina, 39-2-1-1

126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 57-3-0-1 2: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 40-2, IBF 3: Derrick Gainer*, 39-5-1, WBA 4: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 62-13, WBO 5: Scott Harrison (GB), 19-2-1 6: Zahir Raheem, 24-0 7: Michael Brodie (GB), 35-1 8: Rocky Juarez, 17-0 9: William Abelyan, 23-4-1 10: Oscar Leon* (Colombia), 24-3

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-1 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 37-2-1, IBF 3: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 48-3-1, WBC  4: Mahyar Monshipour (France), 23-2-2, WBA 5: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 19-0, WBO 6: Wayne McCullough (GB), 26-4 7: Willie Jorrin, 28-1-1 8: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 34-3 9: Salim Medjkoune* (France), 41-4-1 10: Kozo Ishii (Japan), 30-3

118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 29-3, IBF 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 41-1-1, WBC 3: Johny Bredahl (Denmark), 53-2, WBA 4: Tim Austin*, 25-1-1 5: Cruz Carbajal, 23-11-1, WBO 6: Pete Frissina, 27-3-1 7: Toshiaki Nishioka (Japan), 23-2-2 8: David Gueralt (France), 27-1 9: Ricardo Vargas (Mexico), 34-9-3 10: Silence Mabuza (South Africa), 14-0, IBO

SUPER FLYWEIGHT

FLYWEIGHT

115lbs/8st 3lbs (Called junior bantamweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Masamori Tokuyama (Japan), 29-2-1, WBC 2: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 23-0, WBA 3: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 26-0-1, WBO 4: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 30-3-1, IBA 5: Luis Perez* (Nicaragua), 21-1, IBF 6: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 22-4-1 7: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 22-1 8: Mark Johnson*, 41-3-0-1 9: Medgeon Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 33-2 10: Peter Culshaw (GB), 24-1-1

112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 33-0, WBA 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 47-2, WBC  3: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 27-0, IBF  4: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 39-6 5: Omar Narvaez (Argentina), 14-0-2, WBO  6: Damaen Kelly (GB), 18-1 7: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 27-4-2 8: Vic Darchinian* (Australia), 18-0 9: Andrea Sarritzu (Italy), 17-2-2 10: Lorenzo Parra, Venezuela, 22-0

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), 34-3-1, WBC 3: Kermin Guardia* (Colombia), 34-2, WBO 4: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-2 5: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 28-2 6: Melchor Cob Castro* (Mexico), 66-9-4 7: Victor Burgos (Mexico), 31-12-2, IBF 8: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 27-2 9: Fahlan Sakareen* (Thailand), 49-3-2 10: Jair Jimenez (Colombia), 23-1-1

105lbs/7st 7lbs (Called mini-flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Jose Antonio Aguirre (Mexico), 31-1, WBC 2: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 20-2-1-1, WBA 3: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 50-2-2 4: Edgar Cardenas (Mexico), 30-10-2, IBF 5: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 21-2-1 6: Keitaro Hoshinu (Japan), 23-10 7: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 20-6-3 8: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 32-1-1 9: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 17-1 10: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 16-0, WBO

Articles in this issue
THREE ISN'T A CROWD STEVE FARHOOD was ringside for the Barnes-Vincent debacle and, on his return to the U.S., asked leading American boxing officials for opinions on Britain’s outmoded ‘referee only’ scoring system	A TOUCH OF SLEEP He may be no spring chicken, but DaVarryl Williamson has the dig to make a significant impression on the heavyweights, starting with Joe Mesi. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports	INTRIGUE Who can say for sure whether Evander Holyfield or James Toney will come out on top? GRAHAM HOUSTON on a truly compelling match	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the September 2003 issue went to press..

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