See the magazine for a further two-page chart of the LATEST TOP-20 BRITISH RATINGS 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.

Ratings from the October 1998 issue:

HEAVYWEIGHT Over 190lbs/13st 8lbs HEAVYWEIGHT - Over 190lbs/13st 8lbs 1: Lennox Lewis (Britain), 33-1, WBC champ 2: Evander Holyfield, 35-3,WBA/IBF champ 3: Michael Grant, 28-0 4: Michael Moorer*, 39-2 5: Henry Akinwande (Britain), 33-1-1 6: Ray Mercer, 25-4-1 7: Larry Donald, 32-1-1 8: Chris Byrd*, 26-0 9: Andrzej Golota (Poland), 31-3 10:  Herbie Hide (Britain), 30-1, WBO champ	CRUISERWEIGHT 190lbs/13st 8lbs 1: Fabrice Tiozzo (France), 39-1, WBA champ 2: Juan Carlos Gomes* (Cuba), 24-0, WBC champ 3: Imamu Mayfield, 18-1, IBF champ 4: Arthur Williams, 28-4-1 5: Johnny Nelson (Britain), 31-12-1 6: Carl Thompson (Britain), 24-4, WBO champ 7: Orlin Norris, 49-5 8: Robert Daniels, 38-3-1, WBU champ 9: Marcelo Dominguez (Arge.), 22-2-1 10:   Nate Miller, 30-6
LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT 175lbs/12st 7lbs 1: Roy Jones, 37-1, WBC/WBA champ 2: D. Michalczewski (Ger.), 37-0, WBO champ 3: Reggie Johnson*, 38-5-1, IBF champ 4: Graciano Rocchigiani* (Germany), 40-4-1 5: Lou Del Valle*, 27-2 6: Montell Griffin, 32-1 7: Virgil Hill, 43-3 8: Michael Nunn*, 52-4 9: Ole Klemetsen (Norway), 33-3 10: Richard Hall*, 22-1	SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT 168lbs/12st 1: Joe Calzaghe* (Britain), 25-0, WBO champ 2: Richie Woodhall (Britain), 23-1, WBC champ 3: Frankie Liles*, 32-1, WBA champ 4: Charles Brewer, 31-5, IBF champ 5: Thomas Tate, 34-5 6: Andrei Schkalikov (Russia), 29-4-1 7: Herol Graham* (Britain), 48-6 8: Sugarboy Malinga (S. Africa), 43-11 9: Robin Reid (Britain), 26-1-1 10:   Eric Lucas (Canada), 26-3-3
MIDDLEWEIGHT 160lbs/11st 6lbs 1: Bernard Hopkins, 34-2-1, IBF champ 2: William Joppy, 25-1-1, WBA champ 3: Hassine Cherifi (France), 25-2-1, WBC champ 4: Otis Grant* (Canada), 31-1-1, WBO champ 5: Antwun Echols, 21-2-1 6: Keith Holmes*, 30-2 7: Julio Cesar Green, 22-3 8: Robert McCracken (Britain), 31-0 9: Stephane Ouellet (Canada), 24-1 10:  Robert Allen*, 21-2	LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT 154lbs/11st (Called junior middleweight by the WBA, IBF super welterweight by the WBC) 1: Laurent Boudouani (France), 37-2-1, WBA champ, 2: Keith Mullings, 16-4-1, WBC champ 3: Yory Boy Campas (Mexico), 71-2, IBF champ 4: Ronald Wright*, 38-1, WBO champ 5: Guilermo Jones (Panama), 22-2-1 6: Terry Norris, 47-7 7: David Reid, 10-0 8: Verno Phillips, 30-8-1, WBU champ 9: Bronco McKart*, 5-2 10: Fernando Vargas, 13-0
WELTERWEIGHT 147lbs/10st 7lbs 1: Felix Trinidad (Puerto Rico), 33-0, IBF champ 2: Oscar De La Hoya, 28-0, WBC champ 3: Ike Quartey (Ghana), 34-0-1, WBA champ 4: Jose Luis Lopez (Mexico), 41-3-2 5: Vernon Forrest, 24-0 6: Derrell Coley, 32-1-2 7: James Page, 20-3 8: Andrei Pestriaev (Russia), 21-2 9: Oba Carr, 46-2-1 10: Frankie Randall, 54-5-1	LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT 140lbs/10st (Called junior welterweight by the WBA, IBF and WBO; super lightweight by the WBC) 1: Vince Phillips, 38-3, IBF champ 2: Kostya Tszyu (Australia), 20-1-1 3: Julio Cesar Chavez (Mexico), 100-2-2 4: Miguel Angel Gonzalez (Mexico), 43-1-1 5: Khalid Rahilou (France), 32-2, WBA champ 6: Sharmba Mitchell*, 42-2 7: Shea Neary (Britain), 20-0, WBU champ 8: Rafael Ruelas, 52-3 9: Zab Judah*, 17-0-0-1 10: Reggie Green, 28-2
LIGHTWEIGHT 135lbs/9st 9lbs 1: Shane Mosley, 28-0, IBF champ 2; Cesar Bazan (Mexico), 32-2-1, WBC champ 3: Steve Johnston*, 24-1 4: Jean-Baptiste Mendy (France), 51-7-2, WBA champ 5: Arturo Gatti (Canada), 29-2, IBF s. feather champ 6: Orzoubek Nazarov* (Russ./Jap.), 26-1 7: Jesse James Leija, 37-3-2 8: Phillip Holiday (South Africa), 33-1 9: Artur Grigorian* (Russia), 24-0, WBO champ 10:  Israel Cardona, 29-2	SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT 130lbs/9st 4lbs (Called junior lightweight by the WBA, IBF and WBO) 1: Genaro Hernandez, 38-1-1, WBC champ 2: Angel Manfredy, 24-2-1, WBU champ 3: Roberto Garcia, 30-0, IBF champ 4: Goyo Vargas (Mexico), 38-6-1 5: Gabriel Ruelas, 45-4 6: Derrick Gainer*, 24-4 7: Anatoly Alexandrov (Russia), 33-3, WBO champ 8: Floyd Mayweather, 17-0 9: Justin Juuko (Britain), 32-1-1 10: Arnulfo Castillo* (Mexico), 27-0-2
FEATHERWEIGHT 126lbs/9st 1: Naseem Hamed* (Britain), 30-0, WBO champ 2: Luisito Espinosa (Philippines), 42-7, WBC champ 3: Kevin Kelley*, 48-3-2 4: Cesar Soto (Mexico), 52-7-2 5: Freddie Norwood*, 31-0-1, WBA champ 6: Angel Vasquez (Puerto Rico), 15-0 7: Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico), 25-1 8: Manuel Medina (Mexico), 55-10, IBF champ 9: Hector Lizarraga, 34-9-5 10: Wilfredo Vazquez (P. Rico), 50-8-3	SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT 122lbs/8st 10lbs (Called junior featherweight by the WBA, IBF, WBO) 1: Erik Morales (Mexico), 30-0,WBC champ 2: Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico), 45-2 3: Kennedy McKinney, 33-3-1 4: Junior Jones, 44-3 5: Vuyani Bungu (S. Africa), 35-2 6: Wayne McCullough (Britain), 22-1 7: Enrique Sanchez* (Mexico), 24-0-1, WBA champ 8: Willie Jorrin, 21-0 9: Ernesto Gray (Colombia), 19-3 10:   Carlos Navarro*, 16-0
BANTAMWEIGHT 118lbs/8st 6lbs 1: Nana Konadu (Ghana), 39-3-1, WBA champ 2: Tim Austin*, 18-0-1, IBF champ 3: Mbulelo Botile (South Africa), 23-1 4: Joichiro Tatsuyoshi (Japan), WBC champ, 16-4-1 5: Paulie Ayala*, 25-0 6: Adan Vargas* (Mexico), 28-1-1 7: S. Singmanassuk (Thai), 17-1 8: Elicier Julio (Colombia), 39-1, WBO champ 9: Doarung Sor Chiriwat (Thailand), 61-6-3 10: Cuauhtemoc Gomez (Mexico), 42-7	SUPER FLYWEIGHT 115lbs/8st 3lbs (Called junior bantamweight by the WBA, IBF and WBO) 1: Johnny Tapia, 43-0-2, WBO/IBF champ 2: Danny Romero, 33-2 3: Gerry Penalosa* (Philippines), 39-1-2, WBC champ 4: Hiroshi Kawashima* (Japan), 20-3-1 5: Satoshi Iida (Japan), 25-1-1, WBA champ 6: Yokthai Sit-Oar (Thailand), 16-1-1 7: Joel Luna Zarate (Mexico), 32-2-2 8: Julio Gamboa (Nicaragua), 23-3 9: Jesus Rojas (Mexico), 29-7-2 10:  Samson Dutchboy-Gym* (Thailand), 30-0
FLYWEIGHT 112lbs/8st 1: Mark Johnson*, 35-1, IBF champ 2: C. Dutchboy Gym (Thailand), 33-1, WBC champ 3: Carlos Salazar*, 47-7-3, WBO champ 4: Hugo Soto (Argentina), 50-5-2 ,WBA champ 5: Jose Bonilla (Venezuela), 24-4 6: Arthur Johnson, 17-4 7: Saen Sow Ploenchit (Thailand), 29-1 8: Gabriel Mira (Mexico), 17-7-1 9: Alejandro Montiel (Mexico), 38-3 10: Jose Lopez (Puerto Rico), 20-4-1	LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT 108lbs/7st 10lbs (Called junior flyweight by the WBA, IBF and WBO) 1: Saman Sorjaturong (Thai.), 38-2-1, WBC champ 2: Mauricio Pastrana (Colombia), 18-0, IBF champ 3: Jake Matlala (South Africa), 49-10-2 4: Juan D. Cordoba (Arge.), 32-4-3, WBO champ 5: Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan* (Thai), 19-1, WBA champ 6: Melchor Cob Castro* (Mexico), 51-6-4 7: Joma Gamboa (Philippines), 24-3-1 8: Hiyong Choi (Korea), 19-2 9: Manny Pacquiao* (Philippines), 23-1 10: Tomas Rivera (Mexico), 14-2-2
STRAWWEIGHT 105lbs/7st 7lbs (Called mini-flyweight by the IBF and WBO, minimumweight by the WBA) 1: Ricardo Lopez (Mexico), 46-0-1, WBC/WBO champ 2: Rosendo Alvarez (Nicaragua), 24-0-1, WBA champ 3: Chana Porpaoin (Thailand), 37-1 4: Zolani Petelo* (South Africa), 13-2-2, IBF champ 5: Rattanapol.DB-Gym* (Thai), 36-3-1 6: Kermin Guardia* (Colombia), 30-2, WBO champ 7: Alex Sanchez (P. Rico), 25-2 8: Rocky Lim (Taiwan), 26-1 9: Ala Villamor* (Philippines), 29-2-1 10: Shinichi Tamaki* (Japan), 14-3