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Current Issue: December 2003

World Ratings December 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: Vassiliy Jirov* (Kazakhstan), 33-1 4: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-1, WBO 5: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 19-0, WBC 6: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 45-2 7: Virgil Hill, 49-4 8: O'Neil Bell, 21-1-1 9: Ezra Sellers*, 27-5 10: Sebastian Rothman (South Africa), 17-1-2, IBO	LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT - 175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr, 49-1, WBA heavy, WBC/IBO 2: Antonio Tarver*, 21-2 3: Julio Gonzalez, 35-1, WBO 4: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 48-1 5: Montell Griffin, 44-4 6: Glencoffe Johnson, 39-9-2 7: Clinton Woods (GB), 35-2-1 8: Silvio Branco (Italy), 49-6-2, WBA 9: Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 24-1 10: Paul Briggs (Australia), 21-1

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), 28-1, 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*, 36-4-0-1 6: Jermain Taylor, 18-0 7: Aaron Mitchell, 21-1-1 8: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 23-0 9: Raymond Joval, 31-2, IBO 10: Raul Marquez, 35-2-0-1

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*, 46-3, 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), 29-3-0-1, 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), 32-0 7: Teddy Reid, 22-5-1 8: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 38-5 9: Kermit Cintron, 20-0 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., 31-0, 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: Juan Valenzuela, 18-6

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT - 130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior lightweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 34-0, 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), 31-2, 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), 42-2, IBF/WBA 3: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 62-13, WBO 4: Scott Harrison (GB), 19-2-1 5: Derrick Gainer*, 39-6-1 6: Rocky Juarez, 18-0 7: William Abelyan, 23-4-1 8: Injin Chi (Korea), 35-1-1 9: Michael Brodie (GB), 35-1-1 10: Zahir Raheem, 24-0

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT - 122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 34-2 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: Salim Medjkoune* (France), 41-4-1 8: Jorge Lacierva (Mexico), 23-5-3 9: Osamu Sato (Japan), 26-2-3 10: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 35-3

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), 23-3-2 5: Johny Bredahl (Denmark), 54-2, WBA 6: Hideki Tokada (Japan), 21-3-1 7: Tim Austin*, 25-1-1 8: Pete Frissina, 27-3-1 9: David Gueralt (France), 29-2 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: Mark Johnson*, 42-3-0-1, WBO 4: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 26-1-1 5: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 30-4-1, IBA 6: Luis Perez* (Nicaragua), 21-1, IBF 7: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 22-4-1 8: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 24-1 9: Medgeon Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 34-2 10: Oscar Andrade (Mexico), 30-22-1

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), 30-1-1, 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
SHATTERED OR SHOT The Great Roy wasn’t supposed to have such a hard time with Tarver but he did. GRAHAM HOUSTON left Vegas weighing up what was up.	PULLING OUT THE STOPS Will The Executioner’s psyche-out tactics work on William Joppy? GRAHAM HOUSTON previews the massive Atlantic City show	$$$$$$$$$$$ In British sport, Roman and Russian has come to mean money. Put the words in conjunction with Jewish roots and a talented heavyweight prospect, and cash registers ring around the world. ANT EVANS reports on the talented Mr Greenberg.	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the December 2003 issue went to press..

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