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Current Issue: July 2004

World Ratings July 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), 30-2, WBA 2: Johnny Nelson (GB), 43-12-2, WBO 3: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 21-0, WBC 4: O'Neil Bell, 22-1-1 5: Kelvin Davis, 21-2-1, IBF 6: Virgil Hill, 49-5 7: Guillermo Jones (Panama), 30-2-2 8: Steve Cunningham, 15-0 9: Dale Brown (Canada), 30-3-1 10: Valery Brudov (Russia), 28-0	LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT - 175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Antonio Tarver*, 22-2, WBC 2: Roy Jones Jr, 49-2 3: Zsolt Erdei (Hungary), 20-0, WBO 4: Julio Gonzalez, 36-2 5: Dariusz Michalczewski (Germany), 48-1 6: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 46-2 7: Glencoffe Johnson, 40-9-2, IBF 8: Paul Briggs (Australia), 22-1 9: Thomas Ulrich (Germany), 26-1 10: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 37-0

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT - 168lbs/12st 1: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 29-1, WBC 2: Danny Green (Australia), 18-1 3: Manny Siaca (Puerto Rico), 18-4, WBO 4: Mads Larsen* (Denmark), 45-2 5: Syd Vanderpool (Canada), 35-2 6: Robin Reid (GB), 36-4-1 7: Anthony Mundine (Australia), 20-1, WBA 8: Christian Sanavia (Italy), 33-1, WBC 9: Jeff Lacy, 16-0-0-1 10: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 34-0	MIDDLEWEIGHT - 160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 44-2-1-1, WBC/WBA/IBF 2: Howard Eastman (GB), 39-1 3: Jermain Taylor, 20-0 4: Oscar De La Hoya, 37-3, WBO 5: Felix Sturm (Germany), 20-1 6: Ricardo Mayorga (Nicaragua), 26-4-1-1 7: Raymond Joval (Holland), 32-2, IBO 8: Robert Allen*, 36-5-0-1 9: Raul Marquez*, 35-2-0-1 10: Maselino Masoe (N. Zealand), 26-2

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT

WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT - 154lbs/11st (Called junior middleweight by the IBF, super welterweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Ronald Wright*, 47-3, WBC/WBA 2: Shane Mosley, 39-3-0-1 3: Fernando Vargas, 24-2 4: Kassim Ouma*, 19-1-1-1 5: Verno Phillips, 37-9-1, IBF 6: Keith Holmes*, 38-3 7: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 28-2-1-1, WBO 8: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 58-5 9: Sergio Martinez* (Argentina), 31-1-1 10: Travis Simms*, 23-0

WELTERWEIGHT - 147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Cory Spinks*, 33-2, IBF/WBA/WBC 2: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 30-3-0-1, WBO 3: Zab Judah*, 31-2-0-1 4: Vernon Forrest, 35-2-0-1 5: Michele Piccirillo (Italy), 41-2-0-1 6: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 34-0 7: Teddy Reid, 22-5-1 8: Rafael Pineda (Colombia), 38-6 9: Kermit Cintron (Puerto Rico), 23-0 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/IBF 2: Floyd Mayweather, 32-0 3: Vivian Harris, 23-1-1, WBA 4: Sharmba Mitchell*, 54-3 5: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 37-6 6: Ricky Hatton (GB), 36-0, WBU 7: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 20-0 8: Paul Spadafora*, 37-0-1 9: Leonard Dorin (Romania), 22-0-1 10: Demarcus Corley*, 28-3-1

LIGHTWEIGHT - 135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 50-6-1, WBC 2: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 35-0, WBO 3: Juan Lazcano, 33-2-1 4: Julio Diaz, 30-2, IBF 5: Stevie Johnston*, 35-3-1 6: Javier Jauregui (Mexico), 47-11-2 7: Artur Grigorian* (Uzbekistan), 36-1 8: Steve Forbes, 24-2 9: Lavka Sim (Mongolia), 19-3-1, WBA 10: Leavander Johnson, 33-4-2

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: Robbie Peden (Australia), 23-2 8: Jorge Barrios, Argentina, 41-2-1-1 9: Daniel Seda (Puerto Rico), 20-0-1 10: Mzonke Fana (S. Africa), 22-2-1

FEATHERWEIGHT - 126lbs/9st 1: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 42-2-1, IBF/WBA 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 38-2-2 3: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 57-4-0-1 4: Scott Harrison (GB), 21-2-1, WBO 5: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 62-14 6: Injin Chi (Korea), 28-2-1, WBC 7: Rocky Juarez, 20-0 8: Derrick Gainer*, 39-6-1 9: William Abelyan*, 23-4-1 10: Spend Abazi (Denmark), 30-1

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT - 122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 52-3-1, WBC 2: Paulie Ayala*, 35-2 3: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 21-0, WBO 4: Mahyar Monshipour (France), 25-2-2, WBA 5: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 36-3, IBF 6: Jorge Lacierva (Mexico), 25-5-3 7: Daniel Ponce De Leon (Mexico), 22-0 8: Jose Luis Valbuena* (Venezuela), 24-3-1 9: Mauricio Martinez (Panama), 24-5-1 10: Ricardo Cordoba (Panama), 22-0

BANTAMWEIGHT - 118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 31-3, IBF 2: Veeraphol (Thailand), 42-1-2, WBC 3: Johny Bredahl (Denmark), 55-2, WBA 4: Julio Zarate (Mexico), 21-2-1 5: Ratanapol (Thailand), 56-8, WBO 6: Toshiaki Nishioka* (Japan), 23-4-3 7: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 31-4-1 8: Heriberto Ruiz (Mexico), 31-2-2 9: Cruz Carbajal, 24-12-1, WBO 10: Genaro Garcia (Mexico), 33-4

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: Mark Johnson*, 43-3-0-1, WBO 3: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 25-0, WBA 4: Luis Perez* (Nicaragua), 22-1, IBF 5: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 28-1-1 6: Eric Morel, 34-1 7: Felix Machado* (Venezuela), 23-5-1 8: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 26-1 9: Jose Navarro*, 20-0 10: Medgoen Kratingdaenggym (Thailand), 34-3

FLYWEIGHT - 112lbs/8st 1: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 30-0, IBF 2: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thailand), 51-2, WBC 3: Lorenzo Parra (Venezuela), 23-0, WBA 4: Omar Narvaez* (Argentina), 16-0-2, WBO 5: Mzukisi Sikali (South Africa), 28-4-2 6: Vic Darchinian* (Australia), 21-0 7: Luis Maldonado (Mexico), 26-0 8: Brahim Asloum (France), 15-0 9: Brian Viloria, 15-0 10: Daisuke Naito* (Japan), 25-1-2

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT - 108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 36-3-1, WBC 2: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 32-2-2, WBA 3: Victor Burgos (Mexico), 37-13-3, IBF 4: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 20-2-2, WBO 5: Bebis Mendoza (Colombia), 30-2 6: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 32-2 7: Kermin Guardia* (Colombia), 34-3 8: Jair Jimenez (Colombia), 23-1-1 9: Ulises Solis (Mexico), 22-0 10: Roberto Vasquez (Panama), 15-1

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), 34-1-1, IBF 3: Eagle Akakura (Thailand/Japan), 12-0, WBC 4: Jose Antonio Aguirre (Mexico), 30-2-1 5: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 19-0, WBO 6: Juan Landaeta (Venezuela), 19-2-1 7: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 52-3-3 8: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 21-6-3 9: Muhammad Rahman (Indonesia), 61-5-3 10: Rodel Mayol (Philippines), 17-0

Articles in this issue
THINK AGAIN If Oscar harboured hopes of beating Bernard Hopkins — even the unimpressive version of the Executioner he shared the bill with — his introduction to middleweight life vs unsung Felix Sturm gave him a big reality check. GRAHAM HOUSTON reports from Las Vegas	ERIK MUST BE UP FOR IT Morales is one of the best and most battle-hardened fighters in the world, but rival champion Hernandez can push him all the way. Unification match preview by GRAHAM HOUSTON	THE JINX LIVES ON He's already the undisputed king of the welterweights, now Cory Spinks is in search of the defining fights that made dad Leon and uncle Michael legends. STEVE FARHOOD reports on a fighter who is currently seven pounds too heavy to emulate his illustrious relatives.	World Rankings:   See where the top fighters were rated when the July 2004 issue went to press..

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