This is a list of current men's professional boxing rankings, which includes the latest rankings by each one of the sport's four major sanctioning bodies, as well as other well-regarded sites and entities.
Overview edit
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system. The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked contender. The WBA often has more than one champion, none of which are ranked by the other 3 sanctioning bodies. Their "Super" and "Regular" champions are excluded from the rankings but their "Interim" champion is affixed to the #1 spot. The IBF's protocol is for the top 2 spots in its rankings to remain vacant until two of its other top-ranked contenders face off, at which point the winner takes one of those two places.
In addition to the rankings published by the major sanctioning bodies, the TBRB and The Ring each publish their own independent rankings, not excluding any organizations' champions. The aim of both the TBRB and The Ring is to crown a single champion for each division. These lists are subjective and derived by a committee. Since the 90s, other parties have experimented with objective computerized rankings, but these are sometimes regarded as incapable of accounting for all of boxing's quirks and subtleties.[1][2] The most widely known computerized rankings are published by BoxRec and updated daily.[3] The following is a list compiling the latest instalment of all the previously mentioned rankings. There are 18 weight classes ranging from Heavyweight to Strawweight.
Current boxing rankings edit
- As of 19th March 2024
C | Champion |
S | Super champion |
R | Regular champion |
I | Interim champion |
Heavyweight (224 lbs+ - 101.60 kg+) edit
Bridgerweight (224 lbs - 101.60 kg) edit
Rank | BoxRec | TBRB | The Ring | WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | |
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C | — | — | — | Evgeny Tishchenko | Łukasz Różański | — | — | |
1 | — | — | — | Zhaoxin Zhang | Ryad Merhy | — | — | |
2 | — | — | — | Julio César La Cruz | Adam Balski | — | — | |
3 | — | — | — | Ryad Merhy | Andrew Tabiti | — | — | |
4 | — | — | — | Evgenyi Romanov | Alen Babić | — | — | |
5 | — | — | — | Roman Fress | Kris Terzievski | — | — | |
6 | — | — | — | Badou Jack | Alexis Barriere | — | — | |
7 | — | — | — | Lawrence Okolie | Carlouse Welch | — | — | |
8 | — | — | — | Leon Harth | Keaton Gomes | — | — | |
9 | — | — | — | Andrew Tabiti | Tom Schwarz | — | — | |
10 | — | — | — | Kem Ljungquist | Bohdan Myronets | — | — |
Cruiserweight (200 lbs - 90.72 kg) edit
Light heavyweight (175 lbs - 79.38 kg) edit
Super middleweight (168 lbs - 76.2 kg) edit
Middleweight (160 lbs - 72.57 kg) edit
Super Welterweight (154 lbs - 69.85 kg) edit
Welterweight (147 lbs - 66.68 kg) edit
Super Lightweight (140 lbs - 63.5 kg) edit
Lightweight (135 lbs - 61.23 kg) edit
Super featherweight (130 lbs - 58.97 kg) edit
Featherweight (126 lbs - 57.15 kg) edit
Super bantamweight (122 lbs - 55.34 kg) edit
Bantamweight (118 lbs - 53.52 kg) edit
Super flyweight (115 lbs - 52.16 kg) edit
Flyweight (112 lbs - 50.8 kg) edit
Light flyweight (108 lbs - 48.99 kg) edit
Strawweight (105 lbs - 47.63 kg) edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Boxrec.com's computerized rankings » Boxing News". Boxingnews24.com. 1 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ "FEEDBACK - Transnational Boxing Rankings Board". Tbrb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ "Invaluable site BoxRec's new ratings: the pound-for-pound best of all-time! - Boxing News". Boxingnews24.com. 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-10.