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Current Issue: November 2003

World Ratings November 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
CRUISERWEIGHT - 190lbs/13st 8lbs 1: James Toney, 67-4-2, IBF 2: Jean-Marc Mormeck (France), 29-2, WBA 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	LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT - 175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr, 48-1, WBA heavy 2: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 48-0, WBO 3: Antonio Tarver*, 21-1 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: Silvio Branco (Italy), 49-6-2, WBA 9: Julio Gonzalez, 34-1 10: Mehdi Sahnoune (France), 24-1

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT - 168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 36-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 32-0, IBF/WBA super 3: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 27-1, WBC 4: Eric Lucas (Canada), 36-5-3 5: Mads Larsen (Denmark), 45-2 6: Anthony Mundine (Australia), 19-1, WBA 7: Byron Mitchell, 25-3-1 8: Robin Reid (GB), 35-3-1, WBF 9: Danny Green (Australia), 16-1 10: Antwun Echols, 29-5-1	MIDDLEWEIGHT - 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: Keith Holmes, 37-3 5: Robert Allen*, 35-4-0-1 6: Erland Betare (France), 35-7-2 7: Jermain Taylor, 17-0 8: Aaron Mitchell, 21-1-1 9: Eric Mitchell, 16-3-1 10: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 23-0

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT

WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT - 154lbs/11st (Called junior middleweight by the IBF, super welterweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Shane Mosley, 39-2-0-1, WBC/WBA super 2: Oscar De La Hoya, 36-3 3: Ronald Wright*, 45-3, IBF 4: Fernando Vargas, 23-2 5: Alex Terra Garcia (Mexico), 22-0, WBA 6: Verno Phillips, 36-9-1 7: Kassim Ouma*, 18-1-1-1 8: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 27-2-1-1, WBO 9: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 56-5 10: J.C. Candelo, 26-5-3

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: Kermit Cintron, 19-0 10: Jose Antonio Rivera, 38-3-1

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT - 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), 33-0, WBU 7: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 17-0 8: Demarcus Corley*, 28-2-1 9: Paul Spadafora*, 36-0-1 10: Jesse James Leija, 44-6-2

LIGHTWEIGHT - 135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 30-0, WBC 2: Juan Lazcano, 33-2-1 3: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 48-6-1 4: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 36-0, WBO 5: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 21-0-1, WBA 6: Stevie Johnston*, 35-3-1 7: Javier Jauregui (Mexico), 46-10-2 8: Courtney Burton, 19-1 9: Levander Johnson, 32-3-2 10: Julio Diaz, 28-2

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT - 130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior lightweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 33-0, WBA super/WBO 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 45-1 3: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 30-1 4: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 40-2, WBC 5: Carlos Hernandez, 40-3-1, IBF 6: Diego Corrales, 37-2 7: Philip Ndou (South Africa), 31-1, WBU 8: Yodsanan Nanthachai (Thailand), 41-2-1, WBA 9: Steve Forbes, 23-2 10: Jorge Barrios, Argentina, 39-2-1-1

FEATHERWEIGHT - 126lbs/9st 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 57-3-0-1 2: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 41-2, 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, 18-0 9: William Abelyan, 23-4-1 10: Chris John (Indonesia), 33-0

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

SUPER 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), 49-3-1, WBC 4: Mahyar Monshipour (France), 23-2-2, WBA 5: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 20-0, WBO 6: Wayne McCullough (GB), 26-4 7: Willie Jorrin, 28-1-1 8: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 35-3 9: Salim Medjkoune* (France), 41-4-1 10: Jorge Lacierva (Mexico), 23-5-3

BANTAMWEIGHT - 118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 30-3, IBF 2: Cruz Carbajal, 24-11-1, WBO 3: Veeraphol (Thailand), 41-1-2, WBC 4: Toshiaki Nishioka (Japan), 23-3-3 5: Johny Bredahl (Denmark), 53-2, WBA 6: Hideki Tokada (Japan), 21-3-1 7: Tim Austin*, 25-1-1 8: Pete Frissina, 27-3-1 9: David Gueralt (France), 27-1 10: Ricardo Vargas (Mexico), 36-9-3

SUPER FLYWEIGHT

FLYWEIGHT

SUPER FLYWEIGHT - 115lbs/8st 6lbs (Called junior bantamweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Masamori Tokuyama (Japan), 29-2-1, WBC 2: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 24-0, WBA 3: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 30-4-1, IBA 4: Mark Johnson*, 42-3-0-1, WBO 5: Luis Perez* (Nicaragua), 21-1, IBF 6: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 22-4-1 7: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 24-1 8: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 26-1-1 9: Medgeon Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 33-2 10: Peter Culshaw (GB), 24-1-1

FLYWEIGHT - 112lbs/8st 1: Eric Morel, 33-0, WBA 2: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 30-0, IBF 3: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 47-2, WBC   4: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 39-6 5: Omar Narvaez (Argentina), 14-0-2, WBO 6: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 28-4-2 7: Vic Darchinian* (Australia), 19-0 8: Lorenzo Parra, Venezuela, 22-0 9: Andrea Sarritzu (Italy), 17-2-2 10: Damaen Kelly (GB), 18-2

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT - 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), 29-2 9: Fahlan Sakkririn* (Thailand), 53-3-2 10: Jair Jimenez (Colombia), 23-1-1

MINIMUMWEIGHT - 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), 51-2-2 4: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 33-1-1, IBF 5: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 22-2-1 6: Keitaro Hoshinu (Japan), 23-10 7: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 21-6-3 8: Edgar Cardenas (Mexico), 30-11-2 9: Khulile Makeba* (South Africa), 17-1 10: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 17-0, WBO

Articles in this issue
THE END OF THE LINE For all the brilliance of James Toney’s performance in stopping the legendary Holyfield, there’s no hiding the fact that Evander is now well past his sell-by date  and should be withdrawn from the shelves. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Las Vegas	PERFECTLY INCORRECT Ricardo Mayorga revels in his wildman image — indeed, plays up to it. But as his wins over Forrest show, the Nicaraguan is all business come fight time. STEVE FARHOOD meets up with the eccentric welter champ in New York	BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Antonio Tarver has been calling out Roy Jones for an eternity, but Roy is rubbing his hands together with glee at the prospect of shutting the big mouth of his Florida rival and successor as light-heavy champ. GRAHAM HOUSTON previews a genuine grudge match	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the November 2003 issue went to press..

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