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Current Issue: April 2004

World Ratings April 2004

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: Jean-Marc Mormeck (France), 29-2, WBA 2: Vassiliy Jirov* (Kazakhstan), 33-1 3: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-1, WBO 4: O'Neil Bell, 22-1-1 5: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 20-0, WBC 6: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 45-2 7: Virgil Hill, 49-4 8: Ezra Sellers*, 27-5 9: Valery Brudov (Russia), 25-0 10: Kelvin Davis, 20-2-1	LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT - 175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones Jr, 49-1, WBC 2: Antonio Tarver*, 21-2 3: Zsolt Erdei (Hungary), 19-0, WBO 4: Julio Gonzalez, 35-2 5: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 48-1 6: Montell Griffin, 44-4 7: Glencoffe Johnson, 40-9-2, IBF 8: Clinton Woods (GB), 35-3-1 9: Silvio Branco (Italy), 49-6-2, WBA 10: Paul Briggs (Australia), 22-1

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT - 168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 37-0, WBO 2: Sven Ottke (Germany), 33-0, IBF 3: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 29-1, WBC 4: Danny Green (Australia), 17-1 5: Mads Larsen* (Denmark), 45-2 6: Anthony Mundine (Australia), 20-1, WBA 7: Robin Reid (GB), 36-4-1 8: Jeff Lacy, 16-0 9: Brian Magee (GB), 21-0 10: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 32-0	MIDDLEWEIGHT - 160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 43-2-1-1, WBC/WBA super/IBF 2: Howard Eastman (GB), 39-1 3: Keith Holmes*, 37-3 4: Robert Allen*, 36-4-0-1 5: Jermain Taylor, 19-0 6: Aaron Mitchell, 21-1-1 7: Evans Ashira (Kenya), 23-0 8: Raymond Joval (Holland), 32-2, IBO 9: Raul Marquez, 35-2-0-1 10: Rodney Jones*, 32-3

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, 24-2 5: Kassim Ouma*, 19-1-1-1 6: Verno Phillips, 37-8-1 7: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 27-2-1-1, WBO 8: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 56-5 9: Travis Simms*, 23-0, WBA 10: Sergio Martinez* (Argentina), 30-1-1

WELTERWEIGHT - 147lbs/10st 7lbs  1: Cory Spinks*, 32-2, IBF/WBA super/WBC 2: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 30-3-0-1, WBO 3: Ricardo Mayorga (Nicaragua), 25-4-1-1 4: Vernon Forrest, 35-2-0-1 5: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 40-2-0-1 6: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 34-0 7: Teddy Reid, 22-5-1 8: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 38-5 9: Kermit Cintron, 22-0 10: Jose Antonio Rivera, 38-3-1, WBA

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*, 30-1-0-1, WBO 3: Vivian Harris, 23-1-1, WBA 4: Sharmba Mitchell*, 53-3 5: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 37-6 6: Ricky Hatton (GB), 34-0, WBU 7: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 19-0 8: Demarcus Corley*, 28-2-1 9: Paul Spadafora*, 36-0-1 10: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 21-0-1

LIGHTWEIGHT - 135lbs/9st 9lbs  1: Floyd Mayweather Jr., 31-0, WBC 2: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 35-0, WBO 3: Juan Lazcano, 33-2-1 4: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 49-6-1 5: Stevie Johnston*, 35-3-1 6: Javier Jauregui (Mexico), 47-10-2, IBF 7: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 36-1 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: Erik Morales (Mexico), 46-1, WBC 2: Diego Corrales, 38-2, WBO 3: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 30-2 4: Carlos Hernandez, 40-3-1, IBF 5: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 40-3 6: Yodsanan Nanthachai* (Thailand), 43-2-1, WBA 7: Steve Forbes, 23-2 8: Jorge Barrios, Argentina, 40-2-1-1 9: Orlando Salido (Mexico), 19-8-1 10: Robbie Peden (Australia), 22-2

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: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 51-3-1, WBC 2: Paulie Ayala*, 35-2 3: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 21-0, WBO 4: Mahyar Monshipour (France), 24-2-2, WBA 5: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 35-3 6: Salim Medjkoune* (France), 43-4-1 7: Jorge Lacierva (Mexico), 23-5-3 8: Jose Luis Valbuena* (Venezuela), 24-2-1 9: Daniel Ponce De Leon (Mexico), 17-0 10: Diego Morales* (Mexico), 31-2

BANTAMWEIGHT - 118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 31-3, IBF 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 42-1-2, WBC 3: Cruz Carbajal, 24-11-1, WBO 4: Johny Bredahl (Denmark), 54-2, WBA 5: Julio Zarate (Mexico), 21-2-1 6: Toshiaki Nishioka* (Japan), 23-4-3 7: Tim Austin*, 25-1-1 8: David Guerault* (France), 29-2 9: Hideki Todaka (Japan), 21-4-1 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), 30-2-1, WBC 2: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 25-0, WBA 3: Mark Johnson*, 43-3-0-1, WBO 4: Luis Perez* (Nicaragua), 22-1, IBF 5: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 27-1 6: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 30-4-1, IBA 7: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 23-5-1 8: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 25-1 9: Medgoen Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 34-2 10: Jose Navarro*, 19-0

FLYWEIGHT - 112lbs/8st 1: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 30-0, IBF 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 50-2, WBC 3: Lorenzo Parra (Venezuela), 22-0, WBA 4: Omar Narvaez* (Argentina), 16-0-2, WBO 5: Eric Morel, 33-1 6: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 28-4-2 7: Vic Darchinian* (Australia), 20-0 8: Luis Maldonado (Mexico), 25-0 9: Brahim Asloum (France), 14-0 10: Brian Viloria, 14-0

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT - 108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 35-3-1, WBC 2: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 32-2-2, WBA 3: Kermin Guardia* (Colombia), 34-2, WBO 4: Victor Burgos (Mexico), 35-13-3, IBF 5: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 19-2-2 6: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 30-2 7: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 31-2 8: Fahlan Sakkririn* (Thailand), 54-3-2 9: Jair Jimenez (Colombia), 23-1-1 10: Ulises Solis (Mexico), 22-0

MINIMUMWEIGHT - 105lbs/7st 7lbs (Called mini-flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Noel Arambulet (Venezuela), 20-2-1-1, WBA 2: Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 33-1-1, IBF 3: Eagle Akakura (Thailand/Japan), 12-0, WBC 4: Jose Antonio Aguirre (Mexico), 30-1-1 5: Juan Landaeta (Venezuela), 19-2 6: Roberto Leyva* (Mexico), 22-2-1 7: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 52-3-2 8: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 21-6-3 9: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 17-0, WBO 10: Rodel Mayol (Philippines), 15-0

Articles in this issue
SO MUCH AT STAKE Aside from aiming to replace Lennox as WBC champ, Vitali Klitschko attempts to gain revenge over the man who beat seven bells out of his little brother. But a puncher like Corrie Sanders cannot be written off. ANT EVANS previews the vacant title fight	A BRIDGE TO FAR FOR ZAB? He ain't perfect, but Zab Judah has got the heart of a fighter and has always been willing to try and prove he's the best. But is he wise in jumping a division and challenging undisputed welter champ Cory Spinks, he of the famous bloodline? GRAHAM HOUSTON weighs up the risks.	MORALES MAKES THREE El Terrible beats brave Chavez to join, erm, Chavez, as one of only two Mexicans to have become a three-weight champion. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from ringside in Las Vegas	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the April 2004 issue went to press..

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