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Current Issue: August 2005

World Ratings August 2005

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.

WEIGHT DIVISIONS:	HEAVYWEIGHT
HEAVYWEIGHT CRUISERWEIGHT LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT MIDDLEWEIGHT LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT WELTERWEIGHT LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT FEATHERWEIGHT SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT BANTAMWEIGHT SUPER FLYWEIGHT FLYWEIGHT LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT MINIMUMWEIGHT	OVER 200lbs/14st 4lbs 1: Vitali Klitschko (Ukraine), 35-2, WBC 2: Chris Byrd*, 38-2-1, IBF 3: James Toney, 68-4-2-1 4: Hasim Rahman, 40-5-1 5: Lamon Brewster, 32-2, WBO 6: John Ruiz, 41-5-1-1, WBA 7: Calvin Brock, 26-0 8: Monte Barrett, 31-3 9: Samuel Peter (Nigeria), 23-0 10: Luan Krasniqi (Germany), 28-1-1

CRUISERWEIGHT	LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT
200lbs/14st 4lbs 1: Jean-Marc Mormeck (France), 31-2, WBA/WBC 2: Johnny Nelson (GB), 44-12-2, WBO 3: O'Neil Bell, 24-1-1, IBF 4: Wayne Braithwaite (Guyana), 21-1 5: Carl Thompson (GB), 33-6, IBO 6: Dale Brown (Canada), 34-4-1 7: Guillermo Jones (Panama), 32-3-2 8: Steve Cunningham, 17-0 9: Alexander Gurov* (Ukraine), 38-4-1 10: Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (Poland), 32-1	175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Antonio Tarver*, 23-3, IBO 2: Glencoffe Johnson, 42-10-2 3: Zsolt Erdei (Hungary), 22-0, WBO 4: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 47-2, WBA 5: Julio Gonzalez, 38-2 6: Clinton Woods (GB), 37-3-1, IBF 7: Roy Jones Jr, 49-3 8: Tomasz Adamek (Poland), 29-0, WBC 9: Hugo Hernan Garay (Argentina), 24-2 10: Paul Briggs (Australia), 23-2

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT	MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (GB), 39-0, WBO 2: Mikkel Kessler (Denmark), 36-0, WBA 3: Jeff Lacy, 19-0-0-1, IBF 4: Markus Beyer* (Germany), 32-2, WBC 5: Danny Green (Australia), 19-2 6: Robin Reid (GB), 38-4-1, IBO 7: Anthony Mundine (Australia), 23-3 8: Librado Andrade, 22-0 9: Scott Pemberton, 29-3-1 10: Otis Grant* (Canada), 37-2-1	160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Ronald Wright*, 49-3 2: Jermain Taylor, 24-0, WBC/WBA/IBF/WBO 3: Bernard Hopkins, 46-3-1-1 4: Felix Trinidad (Puerto Rico), 42-2 5: Felix Sturm (Germany), 24-1 6: Arthur Abraham (Armenia), 17-0 7: Sam Soliman (Australia), 30-7 8: Kingsley Ikeke (Nigeria), 23-1 9: Howard Eastman (GB), 40-3 10: Sebastian Sylvester (Germany), 19-1

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT

WELTERWEIGHT

154lbs/11st (Called junior middleweight by the IBF, super welterweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Oscar De La Hoya, 37-4 2: Daniel Santos* (Puerto Rico), 29-2-1-1, WBO 3: Fernando Vargas, 25-2 4: Roman Karmazin (Russia), 34-1-1-1, IBF 5: Ike Quartey (Ghana), 36-2-1 6: Travis Simms*, 24-0 7: Javier Castillejo (Spain), 58-5 8: Kassim Ouma*, 21-2-1-1 9: Sergio Martinez* (Argentina), 33-1-1 10: Alejandro Garcia (Mexico), 24-1, WBA

147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Zab Judah*, 34-2-0-1, IBF/WBA/WBC 2: Antonio Margarito (Mexico), 32-4-0-1, WBO 3: Shane Mosley, 40-4-0-1 4: Cory Spinks*, 34-3 5: Thomas Damgaard* (Denmark), 36-0 6: Luis Collazo*, 25-1 7: Jose Antonio Rivera, 37-4-1 8: Sharmba Mitchell*, 56-4 9: Carlos Baldomir (Argentina), 41-9-6 10: Kermit Cintron (Puerto Rico), 24-1

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT

LIGHTWEIGHT

140lbs/10st (Called junior welterweight by the IBF and WBO, super lightweight by the WBC and WBA) 1: Ricky Hatton (GB), 39-0, IBF & WBU 2: Floyd Mayweather, 34-0, WBC 3: Kostya Tszyu (Australia), 31-2-1 4: Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 24-0, WBO 5: Carlos Maussa (Colombia), 19-2, WBA 6: Junior Witter (GB), 32-1-2 7: Vivian Harris, 25-2-1 8: Souleymane M’baye (France), 32-1 9: Antonio Pitalua (Colombia), 40-3 10: Lovemore Ndou (South Africa), 40-8-1

135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Diego Corrales, 40-2, WBC/WBO 2: Jose Luis Castillo (Mexico), 52-7-1 3: Acelino Freitas (Brazil), 37-1 4: Juan Diaz, 28-0, WBA 5: Joel Casamayor* (Cuba), 31-3-1 6: Almazbek Raiymkulov (Kyrgyzstan), 20-0-1 7: Julio Diaz, 31-3 8: Ricky Quiles*, 38-6-3 9: Leavander Johnson, 34-4-2, IBF 10: Ebo Elder*, 22-1

SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

FEATHERWEIGHT

130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior lightweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mex.), 60-4-0-1, WBC 2: Erik Morales (Mexico), 48-2 3: Jorge Barrios, Argentina, 43-2-1-1, WBO 4: Jesus Chavez (Mexico), 41-3 5: Carlos Hernandez, 41-5-1 6: Robbie Peden (Australia), 25-2, IBF 7: Vicente Mosquera (Panama), 21-1-1, WBA 8: Cassius Baloyi (S. Africa), 31-1, IBO 9: Yodsanan Nanthachai* (Thailand), 44-3-1 10: Janos Nagy (Hungary), 22-0

126lbs/9st 1: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mex), 44-2-1, IBF/WBA 2: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 39-3-2 3: Rocky Juarez, 23-0 4: Scott Harrison (GB), 24-2-2, WBO 5: Injin Chi (Korea), 30-2-1, WBC 6: Chris John (Indonesia), 35-0-1 7: Joan Guzman (Dom. Rep.), 23-0 8: Zaheer Rahim, 26-1 9: Victor Polo* (Colombia), 34-5-3 10: Humberto Soto (Mexico), 33-5-2-1

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BANTAMWEIGHT

122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Oscar Larios (Mexico), 56-3-1, WBC 2: Mahyar Monshipour (France), 28-2-2, WBA 3: Israel Vazquez (Mexico), 37-3, IBF 4: Celestino Caballero (Panama), 22-2 5: Toshiaki Nishioka* (Japan), 24-4-3 6: Daniel Ponce De Leon* (Mexico), 26-1 7: Nedal Hussein (Australia), 36-2 8: Diego Morales* (Mexico), 35-2 9: Shoji Kimura (Japan), 18-0-1 10: Thomas Mashaba (S. Africa), 16-2-4, IBO

118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Rafael Marquez (Mexico), 34-3, IBF 2: Wladimir Sidorenko (Ukraine), 17-0, WBA 3: Ratanchai Sor Vorapin* (Thailand), 63-8, WBO 4: Hozumi Hasegawa* (Japan), 18-2, WBC 5: Veeraphol (Thailand), 48-2-2 6: Ricardo Cordoba (Panama), 25-0 7: Silence Mabuza (South Africa), 18-0, IBO 8: Jhonny Gonzalez (Mexico), 29-4 9: Genaro Garcia (Mexico), 34-4 10: Jose Aguiniga (Mexico), 21-3-1

SUPER FLYWEIGHT

FLYWEIGHT

115lbs/8st 6lbs (Called junior bantamweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Martin Castillo (Mexico), 29-1, WBA 2: Fernando Montiel (Mexico), 31-1-1, WBO 3: Luis Perez* (Nicaragua), 23-1, IBF 4: Katsushige Kawashima (Japan), 28-3, WBC 5: Alexander Munoz (Venezuela), 27-1 6: Jose Navarro*, 22-1 7: Ivan Hernandez (Mexico), 21-1-1 8: Masamori Tokuyama (Japan), 30-3-1 9: Malcolm Tunacao* (Philippines), 17-1-2 10: Masibulele Makepula (S. Africa), 26-3

112lbs/8st 1: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam* (Thai), 56-2, WBC 2: Lorenzo Parra (Venezuela), 25-0, WBA 3: Vic Darchinian* (Australia), 23-0, IBF 4: Jorge Arce (Mexico), 39-3-1 5: Irene Pacheco* (Colombia), 30-1 6: Omar Narvaez* (Argentina), 19-0-2, WBO 7: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 34-2-2 8: Luis Maldonado (Mexico), 28-0 9: Brahim Asloum (France), 18-0 10: Hussein Hussein (Australia), 28-1

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT

MINIMUMWEIGHT

108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Erick Ortiz (Mexico), 24-4-1-1, WBC 2: Will Grigsby, 18-2-1, IBF 3: Pichitnoi Sithbangprachan* (Thailand), 33-2 4: Roberto Vasquez* (Panama), 19-1, WBA 5: Hugo Cazares (Mexico), 30-3-2, WBO 6: Victor Burgos (Mexico), 37-14-3 7: Nelson Dieppa (Puerto Rico), 22-1-2-1 8: Brian Viloria, 16-0 9: Beibis Mendoza (Colombia), 30-4 10: Ulises Solis (Mexico), 20-1-1

105lbs/7st 7lbs (Called mini-flyweight by the IBF and WBO) 1: Ivan Calderon* (Puerto Rico), 23-0, WBO 2: Yutaka Niida (Japan), 18-1-3, WBA 3: Muhammad Rachman (Indonesia), 49-7-3, IBF 4: Eagle Kyowa (Thailand/Japan), 13-1 5: Katsunori Takayama (Japan), 15-1, WBC 6: Rodel Mayol (Philippines), 121-0 7: Juan Landaeta* (Venezuela), 18-3-1 8: Isaac Bustos (Mexico), 24-7-3 9: Omar Soto (Mexico), 14-2-1 10: Satoshi Kogumazaka* (Japan), 22-6-3

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