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Current Issue: January 2003

World Ratings January 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), 44-12-1, 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), 25-1 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), 36-3-1, 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), 18-0 8: Demarcus Corley*, 28-2-1 9: Paul Spadafora*, 36-0-1 10: Jesse James Leija, 45-6-2

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), 47-10-2 8: Courtney Burton, 20-1 9: Levander Johnson, 32-4-2 10: Juan Valenzuela, 19-6

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: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 38-2-1 2: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 42-2, IBF/WBA 3: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 57-4-0-1 4: Scott Harrison (GB), 20-2-1, WBO 5: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 62-14 6: Rocky Juarez, 19-0 7: Derrick Gainer*, 39-6-1 8: William Abelyan, 23-4-1 9: Injin Chi (Korea), 27-2-1 10: Michael Brodie (GB), 35-1-1

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT - 122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Paulie Ayala*, 35-2 2: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 50-3-1, WBC 3: Mahyar Monshipour (France), 23-2-2, WBA 4: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 20-0, WBO 5: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 35-3 6: Salim Medjkoune* (France), 41-4-2 7: Jorge Lacierva (Mexico), 23-5-3 8: Osamu Sato (Japan), 26-2-3 9: Napapol Kiatsakchukchai (Thailand), 22-2 10: Jairo Talliaferro (Venezuela), 11-0

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), 23-4-1 8: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 24-1 9: Medgeon Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 34-2 10: Eiji Kojima* (Japan), 9-1

FLYWEIGHT - 112lbs/8st 1: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 30-0, IBF 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 48-2, WBC 3: Lorenzo Parra, Venezuela, 22-0, WBA 4: Omar Narvaez (Argentina), 15-0-2, WBO 5: Eric Morel, 33-1 6: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 28-4-2 7: Vic Darchinian* (Australia), 19-0 8: Alexander Mahmutov (Russia), 42-7 9: Hussein Hussein (Australia), 23-1 10: Andrea Sarritzu (Italy), 17-2-2

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), 30-2 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: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 17-0, WBO 10: Eagle Okuba (Thailand), 10-0

Articles in this issue
BUILDING MOMENTUM If you’re only as good as your last fight, then Vitali Klitschko entered 2004 as the world’s most fearsome heavyweight. But Joe Mesi looked far from impressive at the Garden. STEVE FARHOOD reports from New York	IT'S PANIC STATIONS As a teenage streetfighter, Juan Lazcano earned the nickname ‘Hispanic Causing Panic’, and today it still suits the lightweight to a tee. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports	PARIAH Anthony Mundine speaks his mind and so is there to be loved or hated — so far it has been more of the latter. But Australia’s WBA super middle champ demands respect. Ant Evans reports	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the January 2003 issue went to press..

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