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Rating of professional boxers according to The Ring, regardless of weight category
Rating of professional boxers P4P from The Ring magazine
Rating of professional boxers 2019 according to BoxRec, regardless of weight category
Rating of Russian professional boxers 2019 according to BoxRec, regardless of weight category
World Boxing Association (WBA, WBA) founded in 1921. In accordance with the rules of the WBA (WBA), a boxer holding the title of champion according to the WBA (WBA) and one of the three other associations receives a special title:
"super champion" for fighters who have the right to defend their title in battles with challengers from other versions;
After this, the regular WBA title becomes vacant and is played among contenders.
The WBA also practices "spraying" its belts. In each weight category the WBA has:
"super champion"- who is obliged to defend his title every two years with challengers not necessarily from his own version, and who does not necessarily have to be a champion according to one of the other versions. "regular champion"- a regular champion who is required to defend the title against a WBA mandatory challenger "interim champion"- essentially the first number in the rating, but not having the rights of a mandatory contender, but also having the “title” of champion.
World Boxing Council (WBC) was created in Mexico City, Mexico on February 14, 1963 as an international boxing organization. VBS has introduced new safety requirements in boxing. For example, it set a limit of 12 rounds instead of the previous 15 and expanded the range of weight categories.
International Boxing Federation (IBF) founded in September 1976 as the United States Boxing Association (USBA). In April 1983, an international division was created in the organization (BASH-M, USBA-I). In May 1984, the New Jersey-based BASSH-M was renamed MBF.
World Boxing Organization (WBO) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. The organization's motto was “Dignity, Democracy, Integrity.” Some media outlets recognize UBO and include her in their lists of boxing champions, others do not.
World boxing champions from Russia. Want to know how many there are now?
"Match TV" talks about those who have a belt, remembers who had it and predicts - who will have it.
Who are the champions?
Denis Lebedev
30 wins, 2 losses; 38 years
Belt: WBA, up to 90.8 kg
Under almost every interview with Lebedev, comments are written with the general meaning “why aren’t you participating in the super series?!” The Super Series is a tournament where the eight best heavyweights were gathered and they began to organize fights for them according to the Olympic system. Lebedev’s last winner, Murat Gassiev, is boxing there, there is Yunier Dorticos, with whom Lebedev could have fought a little earlier, and the WBC and WBO champions Mairis Briedis and Alexander Usik are there.
Lebedev can be understood - before the start of the tournament he had personal problems that would not have allowed him to begin normal preparation. Plus, at 38 years old, it’s really difficult to have one tough fight every four months. Lebedev may not be understood - he was the only champion who refused to participate, but was counting on a fight with the winner of the entire tournament. Now no one is hiding that Denis’s next fight could be a career-ending one, and, most likely, this will happen no earlier than the spring of 2018.
Murat Gassiev
25 wins, 0 losses; 24 years
Belt: IBF, up to 90.8 kg
We need to start again with Lebedev, saying that he managed to do something unique - lose the fight, but not reduce, but increase the number of champions from Russia. People from Gassiev’s team were not too happy that only one of the two belts was at stake in the fight with Denis, but they were not too upset either. Murat is 24 years old, and even at this age he demolishes Krzysztof Wlodarczyk in eight minutes and makes his possible fight with Oleksandr Usyk one of the most intriguing in world boxing.
Dmitry Bivol
12 wins, 0 losses; 26 years
Sergey Lipinets
13 wins, 0 losses; 28 years
Why will everything be fine?
Artur Beterbiev will fight for the IBF title next weekend. On November 25, Sergey Kovalev will challenge the right to wear the WBO belt. Both are likely to win.
If a little earlier we looked at the champions from Russia with the help of mathematics and geography, now this can be done with the help of history. She will tell you that since 2010, there has not been a moment when more than five Russians held championship belts at the same time. Offhand, five champions at one moment can be recalled in March 2013 (Povetkin, Lebedev, Baysangurov, Gradovich, Allahverdiev), then in November, when Provodnikov and Kovalev came instead of Baysangurov and Povetkin; in December 2014, Provodnikov found himself without a belt, but Fedor Chudinov became the champion, and then Allahverdiev lost the title, but Troyanovsky received it.
If none of the four current champions loses their belt in 2018, in addition to Kovalev and Beterbiev, they could theoretically be joined by Alexander Povetkin and Eduard Troyanovsky. Povetkin's team is doing almost everything to take the WBO belt. There are three vacant belts in Troyanovsky’s weight class, and the man who knocked out Eduard has not yet given a rematch. In the next category there is Konstantin Ponomarev, and he can tell you how to win 32 out of 32 fights and not become a champion. Ponomarev is 25 years old, and in the top twenty best boxers from Russia, only Murat Gassiev is younger than him.
One interesting thing is that Mikhail Aloyan is not in the top twenty Russians on boxrec (he is 49th), but at the same time Aloyan himself has the WBC Silver belt, which usually gives the status of the first contender. Mikhail's statistics as a professional: 2 wins, 0 losses. If he becomes a champion in his next fight, it will be like the fastest title run in the history of Russian boxing in general. True, there is crazy competition in Aloyan’s weight class, but do we really value boxing for its predictability?
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This current world boxing champions among men according to the four major professional boxing associations and The Ring magazine. Each champion is presented with a record of the results of his fights in the format: wins-losses-draws-undecided (wins by knockout). If the number of drawn fights and fights with an uncertain outcome is zero, then it is allowed not to indicate them in the entry.
World Boxing Association (WBA, WBA) founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA, NBA) - the national association of the United States. On August 23, 1962, the NBA became the WBA and its headquarters moved to Venezuela. In accordance with the rules of the WBA (WBA), a boxer who holds the title of champion according to the WBA (WBA) and one of the three other associations receives a special title:
- “super champion” for boxers who have the right to defend their title in fights with challengers from other versions;
After this, the regular WBA title becomes vacant and is played among contenders.
- The WBA also practices "spraying" its belts. For each weight category, the WBA has:
- “super champion” - who is obliged to defend his title once every two years with challengers not necessarily from his own version, and who does not have to be a champion according to one of the other versions.
- “regular champion” - an ordinary champion who is obliged to defend the title against a mandatory challenger according to the WBA
- “temporary champion” is essentially the first number in the rating, but does not have the rights of a mandatory challenger, but also has the “title” of champion.
World Boxing Council (WBC) was created in Mexico City, Mexico on February 14, 1963 as an international boxing organization. VBS introduced many modern safety requirements in boxing. For example, it set a limit of 12 rounds instead of the previous 15 and expanded the range of weight categories.
International Boxing Federation (IBF) founded in September 1976 as the United States Boxing Association (USBA). In April 1983, an international division was created in the organization (BASH-M, USBA-I). In May 1984, the New Jersey-based BASSH-M was renamed MBF.
World Boxing Organization (WBO) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. The organization's motto was “Dignity, Democracy, Integrity.” Some media outlets recognize UBO and include her in their lists of boxing champions, others do not.
Boxing magazine The Ring founded in 1922. In 2002, The Ring magazine created its own system for determining the world boxing champion, which “intended to reward fighters who, by satisfying rigid criteria, can justify a claim as the true and only world champion in a given weight class.” There are three ways to obtain a championship title according to Ring magazine: defeat the current champion, unify the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, or win a match between the first and second numbers in the Ring ranking (in some cases - between the first and third numbers). Also, in only three cases does a champion lose a title: by losing a title fight, by moving to another weight category, or by ending his career. (Ring abandoned the practice of depriving the champion title as sanctions for violating any conditions.)
- 1 Explanation of the table
- 2 Current champions
- 2.1 Heavy weight (over 90.7 kg; +200 lbs)
- 2.2 First heavyweight (up to 90.7 kg; 200 lb)
- 2.3 Light Heavyweight (up to 79.4 kg; 175 lb)
- 2.4 Second middleweight (up to 76.2 kg; 168 lb)
- 2.5 Average weight (up to 72.6 kg; 160 lb)
- 2.6 First medium (up to 69.9 kg; 154 lb)
- 2.7 Welterweight (under 66.7 kg; 147 lb)
- 2.8 Junior welterweight (under 63.5 kg; 140 lb)
- 2.9 Light weight (up to 61.2 kg; 135 lbs)
- 2.10 Second featherweight (up to 59 kg; 130 lb)
- 2.11 Featherweight (up to 57.2 kg; 126 lb)
- 2.12 Second Bantamweight (under 55.3 kg; 122 lb)
- 2.13 Bantamweight (up to 53.5 kg; 118 lb)
- 2.14 Second flyweight (under 52.2 kg; 115 lb)
- 2.15 Flyweight (up to 50.8 kg; 112 lb)
- 2.16 Junior flyweight (under 49 kg; 108 lb)
- 2.17 Minimum weight (up to 47.6 kg; 105 lb)
- 3 See also
- 4 Sources
Explanation of the table
Current champions
Heavy weight (over 90.7 kg; +200 lbs)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Tyson Fury super champion 25-0 (18 KO) November 28, 2015 |
Deontay Wilder 37-0-0 (36 KO) January 17, 2015 |
Anthony Joshua 17-0 (17 KO) April 9, 2016 |
Tyson Fury 25-0 (18 KO) November 28, 2015 |
Tyson Fury 25-0 (18 KO) November 28, 2015 |
| vacant regular champion |
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| Luis Ortiz interim champion 25–0–0–2 (22 KOs) October 17, 2015 |
First heavyweight (up to 90.7 kg; 200 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Denis Lebedev super champion 29–2–0–0 (22 KO) October 18, 2013 |
Tony Bellew 27-2-1 (17 KO) May 29, 2016 |
Denis Lebedev 29–2–0–0 (22 KO) May 21, 2016 |
Krzysztof Glowacki 26-0-0 (16 KO) August 14, 2015 |
vacant |
| Beibut Shumenov 17-2-0 (11 KO) May 21, 2016 |
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| Yunier Dorticos interim champion 21–0–0 (20 KOs) May 20, 2016 |
Grigory Drozd on holiday 40-1-0 (28 KO) March 16, 2016 |
Light Heavyweight (up to 79.4 kg; 175 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Sergey Kovalev super champion 30–0–1 (26 KOs) November 8, 2014 |
Adonis Stevenson 28-1 (23 KOs) June 8, 2013 |
Sergey Kovalev 30–0–1 (26 KOs) November 8, 2014 |
Sergey Kovalev 30–0–1 (26 KOs) August 17, 2013 |
vacant |
| Jurgen Bremer 48–2–0 (35 KOs) December 14, 2013 |
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| Dmitry Bivol interim champion 7–0–0 (6 KOs) May 21, 2016 |
Second middleweight (up to 76.2 kg; 168 lb)
Medium weight (up to 72.6 kg; 160 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Gennady Golovkin super champion 35–0–0 (32 KO) October, 2010 |
Gennady Golovkin 35-0-0 (32 KO) May 18, 2016 |
Gennady Golovkin 35-0-0 (32 KO) October 17, 2015 |
Billy Joe Saunders 23–0–0 (12 KO) December 19, 2015 |
vacant |
| Daniel Jacobs 31–1–0 (28 KO) August 9, 2014 |
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| Alfonso Blanco interim champion 12–0–0 (5 KO) October 25, 2015 |
First medium (up to 69.9 kg; 154 lb)
Welterweight (up to 66.7 kg; 147 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Keith Thurman regular champion 27–0–0–1 (22 KO) January, 2015 |
Danny Garcia 32–0–0 (18 KO) January 23, 2016 |
Kell Brook 36–0–0 (25 KO) August 16, 2014 |
Jesse Vargas 27–1–0 (10 KO) March 5, 2016 |
vacant |
| David Avanesyan interim champion 22–1–1 (11 KOs) November 7, 2015 |
Junior welterweight (up to 63.5 kg; 140 lb)
Lightweight (up to 61.2 kg; 135 lbs)
Second featherweight (up to 59 kg; 130 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Jesreel Corrales super champion 20–1–0-1 (8 KOs) April 27, 2016 |
Francisco Vargas 23–0–2 (17 KO) November 21, 2015 |
Jose Pedraza 22–0–0 (12 KO) June 13, 2015 |
Vasily Lomachenko 6–1 (4 KO) June 11, 2016 |
vacant |
| Jason Sosa regular champion 19–1–4 (15 KOs) June 24, 2016 |
Miguel Berchelt interim champion 30–1–0 (27 KOs) March 12, 2016 |
Featherweight (up to 57.2 kg; 126 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Leo Santa Cruz super champion 32–0–1 (18 KOs) August 29, 2015 |
Gary Russell Jr. 27–1–0 (16 KO) March 28, 2015 |
Lee Selby 23–1–0 (8 KO) May 30, 2015 |
Oscar Valdez 20–0 (18 KO) July 23, 2016 |
vacant |
| Jesus Cuellar 28–1–0 (21 KOs) February 21, 2015 |
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| Carlos Zambrano interim champion 26–0–0 (11 KO) March 28, 2015 |
Oscar Escandon interim champion 25–2–0 (17 KO) March 5, 2016 |
Second Bantamweight (under 55.3 kg; 122 lb)
Bantamweight (up to 53.5 kg; 118 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Roshi Warren undisputed champion 14–1–0–1 (4 KO) June 18, 2016 |
Shinsuke Yamanaka 25–0–2 (17 KO) November 6, 2011 |
Lee Haskins 33–3–0 (14 KOs) November 20, 2015 |
Marlon Tapales 29–2–0 (12 KO) July 27, 2016 |
vacant |
| Jamie McDonnell 28–2–1 (13 KOs) May 31, 2014 |
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| Zhanat Zhakiyanov interim champion 26–1–0 (18 KOs) November 7, 2015 |
Second flyweight (under 52.2 kg; 115 lb)
Flyweight (up to 50.8 kg; 112 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Juan Francisco Estrada unified champion 33–2–0 (24 KO) April 6, 2013 |
Roman Gonzalez 45–0–0 (38 KO) September 5, 2014 |
Jonriel Casimero 22–3–0 (14 KO) May 25, 2016 |
Juan Francisco Estrada 33–2–0 (24 KO) April 6, 2013 |
Roman Gonzalez 45–0–0 (38 KO) September 5, 2014 |
| Kazuto Ioka 20–1–0 (12 KO) April 22, 2015 |
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| Stump Kiatniwat interim champion 15–0–0 (6 KO) July 29, 2015 |
Super flyweight (under 49 kg; 108 lb)
| WBA | WBC | IBF | WBO | The Ring |
| Ryoichi Taguchi 24–2–1 (11 KO) December 31, 2014 |
Ganigan Lopez 28–6–0 (17 KOs) March 4, 2016 |
Akira Yaegashi 24–5 (12 KOs) December 29, 2015 |
Donnie Nietes 38–1–4 (22 KOs) October 8, 2011 |
Donnie Nietes 38–1–4 (22 KOs) May 10, 2014 |
Minimum weight (up to 47.6 kg; 105 lb)
See also
- Professional boxing
- Weight categories in boxing
Sources
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WBA (WBA), MBA (IBF), and WBO (WBO). The WBC does not mention by name any other sanctioning body in its rules, but it does list the other three major sanctioning bodies" champions on its ratings page. Thus, all four organizations consider only themselves and the other three organizations to be major sanctioning bodies They do not consider organizations such as the IBO and IBA to be major sanctioning bodies.
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For the first time in 12 years, boxing has an absolute world champion. Who is he
Undefeated American Terence Crawford beats Julius Indongo in less than 10 minutes and collects four belts from leading boxing organizations in the junior welterweight (up to 63.5 kg) weight.
What is an absolute champion?
In November 2001, Kostya Tszyu defeated Zab Judah and became the undisputed welterweight world champion, winning three of the most prestigious belts (WBA, WBC and IBF). In 2017, at a press conference before the fight with Julius Indongo, Terence Crawford recalled this, emphasizing that it was really important for him to surpass the Russian’s achievements and become the first man in this weight and only the third in history to collect four belts at once.
In Tszyu’s time, it was not necessary to win four titles to be considered an absolute world champion; three were enough. The WBA, IBF and WBC recognized the WBO as an equal organization after 2004. Since then, only Bernard Hopkins has managed to collect all the belts, in September 2004. In July 2005, Hopkins would lose to Jermain Taylor, the titles would go to him, but Taylor would come out for the next fight with only three belts, having lost the IBF strap for unsportsmanlike reasons.
Crawford became the third person in the 21st century to become the undisputed four-belt world champion. More recently, Vladimir Klitschko and Sergey Kovalev were close to this, each had three belts, but they never got the opportunity to collect four major titles in boxing. Now three belts are held by Andre Ward and Gennady Golovkin.
Who is Terence Crawford
Six days before the most important fight of his life, Terence Crawford filmed a video in which he parodied Conor McGregor's open training before his fight with Floyd Mayweather. A popular pastime for modern boxers.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXwTPDMF9ms/At the end of last year, Terence Crawford was sentenced to 52 days in prison for the destruction of a car service center. Crawford decided he could take his car without paying the owner. And these were not the biggest problems in the boxer’s life. On September 4, 2008, Terence went to play craps in his neighborhood, finished the game, sat in the car, someone didn’t like it, and Crawford was shot in the head with a pistol. The bullet went tangentially, Terence himself came to the hospital. Two months later he won his fifth professional fight. In general, in 2008, Crawford planned to be at the Beijing Olympics, but was unable to qualify for the Games. Nine years later he will meet with the winner of that Olympics, Felix Diaz, and beat him in ten rounds.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX3o1PhlF44/His story is the story of a modest guy from the provinces. Crawford was born in Omaha and quickly became interested in boxing. Almost all the men in his family boxed. Unfortunately, no one taught Crawford to speak brightly, and even when his statistics were around 19-0, Crawford’s main income came from working as a sparring partner for Timothy Bradley (former WBO champion). 2013 will be a turning point. Crawford will begin to win fights, the significance of which can be explained in one line: he beat three previously undefeated opponents (Viktor Postol, Andrey Klimov and Yuriorkis Gamboa), won an away victory and a championship title (Ricky Burns was knocked out in Scotland), beat the Olympic champion Diaz and John Molina, who just defeated Ruslan Provodnikov.
On May 21, Terence Crawford beat Felix Diaz and turned out to be a boxer with statistics of 31 victories, 0 defeats, and he lacked two titles to become an absolute champion: WBC and IBF, which were held by Julius Indongo.
How did the fight for four championship belts turn out?
Crawford remained not very interesting to the public. On May 20, 2017, Floyd Mayweather was only interested in Conor McGregor, and a little earlier, 50 thousand paid broadcasts were sold for the fight between Crawford and Viktor Postol (for comparison, 500 thousand broadcasts sold is considered the average figure for a UFC tournament). The boxer’s Instagram has 150 thousand followers. Terence was desperate for a truly meaningful achievement.
On August 19, 2017, Russian Eduard Troyanovsky could have entered the ring at Pinnacle Bank Arena, but on December 3, 2016, Troyanovsky decided to defend his belts in a fight with Julius Indongo from Namibia. Before his first amateur fight, Indongo trained without gloves, but as soon as they appeared, people began to get upset. The Megasport Arena, for example, was completely upset when, already in the first minute, Indongo knocked out Troyanovsky, took the Russian’s belts and left in a certain direction.
Indongo did nothing like this in the fight with Crawford. If Julius resembled Leicester in the box, that August morning was the second season with the sacking of Cdaudio Ranieri. Crawford saw all the blows and knew what Julius would do even before the Namibian himself understood it.
When there was a minute and a half left before the end of the third round, Julius Indongo suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, his lungs stopped working, and instead of his opponent, the audience and the blue flooring of the ring began to spin before his eyes. He will watch the replay and understand that his liver was ambushed by Crawford’s fist, tightly packed in a dark blue glove.
So Terence Crawford ended up with four of the most important championship belts, and now it remains to understand who needs them most.
Text: Vadim Tikhomirov, Bogdan Domansky
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