World rankings
In conjunction with the Transnational Boxing Rankings. As of March 6, 2023
HEAVYWEIGHT
No weight limit
1. Tyson Fury
2. Joe Joyce
3. Deontay Wilder
4. Anthony Joshua
5. Andy Ruiz Jnr
6. Dillian Whyte
7. Otto Wallin
8. Luis Ortiz
9. Joseph Parker
10. Frank Sanchez
CRUISERWEIGHT
200lbs/14st 4lbs Champion: JAI OPETAIA
1. Mairis Briedis
2. Lawrence Okolie
3. Badou Jack
4. Richard Riakporhe
5. Aleksei Papin
6. Chris Billam-smith
7. Yuniel Dorticos
8. Ilunga Makabu
9. Mateusz Masternak
10. Arsen Goulamirian
LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT
175lbs/12st 7lbs Champion: ARTUR BETERBIEV
1. Dmitry Bivol
2. Joshua Buatsi
3. Callum Smith
4. Joe Smith Jnr
5. Gilberto Ramirez
6. Anthony Yarde
7. Jean Pascal
8. Craig Richards
9. Igor Mikhalkin
10. Ali Izamailov
SUPER-MIDDLEWEIGHT
168lbs/12st Champion: CANELO ÁLVAREZ
1. David Benavides
2. Caleb Plant
3. David Morrell
4. John Ryder
5. Carlos Gongora
6. Pavel Silyagin
7. Christian Mbilli
8. Demetrius Andrade
9. Vladimir Shishkin
10. Eric Bazinyan
MIDDLEWEIGHT
160lbs/11st 6lbs Champion: Open
1. Gennady Golovkin
2. Carlos Adames
3. Jaime Munguia
4. Liam Smith
5. Zhamibek Alimkhanuly
6. Erislandy Lara
7. Sergiy Derevyanchenko
8. Felix Cash
9. Esquiva Falcao
10. Michael Zerafa
SUPER-WELTERWEIGHT
154lbs/11st Champion: JERMELL CHARLO
1. Brian Castano
2. Sebastian Fundora
3. Tim Tszyu
4. Tony Harrison
5. Erickson Lubin
6. Israil Madrimov
7. Magomed Kurbanov
8. Jesus Ramos
9. Liam Smith
10. Bakhram Murtazaliev
WELTERWEIGHT
147lbs/10st 7lbs Champion: Open
1 Errol Spence Jnr
2. Terence Crawford
3. Yordenis Ugas
4. Vergil Ortiz Jr.
5. Jaron Ennis
6. Eimantas Stanionis
7. Cody Crowley
8. Roiman Villa
9. Alexis Rocha
10. Radzhab Butaev*
SUPER-LIGHTWEIGHT
140lbs/10st Champion: JOSH TAYLOR
1. Regis Prograis
2. Jose Carlos Ramirez
3. Arnold Barboza Jr.
4. Jack Catterall
5. Subriel Matias
6. Jose Zepeda
7. Gary Antuanne Russell
8. Steve Spark
9. Teofimo Lopez
10. Sandor Martin
LIGHTWEIGHT
135lbs/9st 9lbs Champion: DEVIN HANEY
1. Gervonta Davis
2. Vasily Lomachenko
3. Ryan Garcia
4. William Zepeda
5. Frank Martin
6. Isaac Cruz
7. George Kambosos Jnr
8. Gustavo Daniel Lemos
9. Jeremia Nakathila
10. Jamaine Ortiz
SUPER-FEATHERWEIGHT
130lbs/9st 4lbs Champion: Open
1. Oscar Valdez
2. Hector Garcia
3. O’shaquie Foster
4. Joe Cordina
5. Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov
6. Roger Gutierrez
7. Lamont Roach
8. Eduardo Ramirez
9. Robson Conceicao
10. Emanuel Navarrete
FEATHERWEIGHT
126lbs/9st Champion: Open
1. Mauricio Lara
2. Rey Vargas
3. Brandon Figueroa
4. Luis Alberto Lopez
5. Mark Magsayo
6. Leigh Wood
7. Josh Warrington
8. Kiko Martinez
9. Isaac Dogboe
10. Michael Conlan
SUPER-BANTAMWEIGHT
122lbs/8st 10lbs Champion: Open
1. Stephen Fulton
2. Murodjon Akhmadaliev
3. Luis Nery
4. Ra’eese Aleem
5. Takuma Inoue
6. Marlon Tapales
7. Azat Hovannisyan
8. John Riel Casimero
9. Kevin Gonzalez
10. Liam Davies
BANTAMWEIGHT
118lbs/8st 6lbs Champion: Open
1. Emmanuel Rodriguez
2. Jason Moloney
3. Nonito Donaire
4. Vincent Astrolabio
5. Gary Antonio Russell
6. Alexandro Santiago
7. Keita Kurihara *
8. Ryosuke Nishida
9. Paul Butler
10. Reymart Gaballo
SUPER-FLYWEIGHT
115lbs/8st 3lbs Champion: JUAN FRANCISCO ESTRADA
1. Roman Gonzalez
2. Bam Rodriguez
3. Kazuto Ioka
4. Joshua Franco
5. Fernando Martinez
6. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
7. Andrew Moloney
8. Junto Nakatani
9. Kosei Tanaka
10. Donnie Nietes
FLYWEIGHT
112lbs/8st Champion: Open
1. Sunny Edwards
2. Artem Dalakian
3. Julio Cesar Martinez
4. David Jimenez
5. Ricardo Sandoval
6. Angel Ayala
7. Seigo Yuri Akui
8. Taku Kuwahara
9. Muhammed Waseem
10. Felix Alvarado
LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT
108lbs/7st 10lbs Champion: KENSHIRO TERAJI
1. Jonathan Gonzalez
2. Masamichi Yabuki
3. Hiroto Kyoguchi
4. Hekkie Budler
5. Daniel Mattelon
6. Sivenathi Nontshinga
7. Elwin Soto
8. Regie Suganob
9. Hector Gabriel Flores
10. Nhlanhla Tyirha
STRAWWEIGHT
105lbs/7st 7lbs Champion: Open
1. Knockout CP Freshmart
2. Petchmanee CP Freshmart
3. Melvin Jerusalem
4. Erick Rosa
5. Wanheng Meenayothin
6. Daniel Valladares
7. Rene Mark Cuarto
8. Oscar Collazo
9. Ginjiro Shigeoka
10. Masataka Taniguchi
THE battle that’s tearing amateur boxing apart continues with the International Boxing Association taking action against countries boycotting their forthcoming World Championships.
IBA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the heads of USA Boxing, Boxing Canada, Czech Boxing Association and Boxing New Zealand.
In total, 11 countries have withdrawn from the Women’s and Men’s World Championships.
They are protesting against governing issues in a bid to save boxing from Olympic expulsion and the decision to lift the ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers competing.
Great Britain announced they won’t be sending fighters to the Women’s World Championships that start in New Dehli next week and are considering whether they should pull out of the Men’s World Championships in Uzbekistan in May.
IBA announced last month that its World Championships will be qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
That claim has been denied by the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC say they are organising the qualifiers for the 2024 Olympics in Paris and the first is the European Games in June.
Ireland’s decision means Amy Broadhurst won’t be going for back-toback World Championships.
Broadhurst, Olympic champion Kelly Harrington and Christina Desmond all won gold at the Strandja International
Tournament in Bulgaria.
Gold for Broadhurst, last year’s World, European and Commonwealth Games champion, was especially satisfying.
She jumped up to 66kgs for the Irish Elite Championships in January and was beaten in the final by Grainne Walsh.
Walsh made an early exit from the Strandja tournament and Broadhurst went all the way to gold, winning four bouts.
In the semi-finals, Broadhurst outpointed Charlie Cavanagh, the World Championship silver medallist from Canada.
She followed with a unanimous points win over Leonie Muller (Germany) in the final.
Broadhurst said before the final she had “seen a comment after the Elite final that me moving up to 66kg was going to take years off my life and was too big of a jump.
“Here is my response. What a way to bounce back.”
Harrington went up from 60kgs to strike gold at 63kgs, outpointing Keona Sam-sin (Netherlands) in the final and, up at light-middleweight, Desmond, European silver medallist last year, outpointed Barbara Marcinkowska (Poland) in the final.
Aidan Walsh, bronze medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, was forced out of the light-middleweight quarter-finals in Bulgaria through injury.
Wins over Daniel Krotter (Germany) and Dev Nishant (India) took him through to the last eight, but he had to withdraw from his bout with Nurislom Ismoilov (Uzbekistan).
Dean Walsh, who beat Aidan in the semi-finals of the Irish Senior Championships, had two wins before bowing out to Denmark’s Nikolai Terteryan.
‘THEY SAID ME MOVING UP TO 66KG WAS GOING TO TAKE YEARS OFF MY LIFE’