Fightful Boxing Rankings (5/22): Five World Title Fights Cause Major Shift In Rankings

The Fightful Boxing Rankings are compiled by lead boxing writer Carlos Toro.

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Fightful Boxing Rankings:

Pound-for-pound

  1. Vasiliy Lomachenko
  2. Terence Crawford
  3. Gennady Golovkin
  4. Canelo Alvarez
  5. Mikey Garcia
  6. Naoya Inoue
  7. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
  8. Errol Spence Jr.
  9. Keith Thurman
  10. Guillermo Rigondeaux

Heavyweight

  1. Anthony Joshua
  2. Deontay Wilder
  3. Alexander Povetkin
  4. Luis Ortiz
  5. Joseph Parker
  6. Jarrell Miller
  7. Kubrat Pulev
  8. Tony Bellew
  9. Andy Ruiz Jr.
  10. Dominic Breazeale

Cruiserweight

  1. Oleksandr Usyk
  2. Murat Gassiev
  3. Krzysztof Glowacki
  4. Denis Lebedev
  5. Firat Arslan
  6. Mairis Briedis
  7. Yunier Dorticos
  8. Andrew Tabiti
  9. Marco Huck
  10. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk

Light heavyweight

  1. Badou Jack
  2. Adonis Stevenson
  3. Dmitry Bivol
  4. Sergey Kovalev
  5. Oleksandr Gvozdyk
  6. Artur Beterbiev
  7. Eleider Alvarez
  8. Sullivan Barrera
  9. Marcus Browne
  10. Joe Smith Jr.

Super middleweight

  1. Gilberto Ramirez
  2. George Groves
  3. David Benavidez
  4. Jose Uzcategui
  5. James DeGale
  6. Caleb Truax
  7. Andre Dirrell
  8. Chris Eubank Jr.
  9. Anthony Dirrell
  10. Tyron Zeuge

Middleweight

  1. Gennady Golovkin
  2. Canelo Alvarez
  3. Daniel Jacobs
  4. Billy Joe Saunders
  5. Jermall Charlo
  6. Ryota Murata
  7. Demetrius Andrade
  8. David Lemieux
  9. Sergiy Derevyanchenko
  10. Martin Murray

Light middleweight

  1. Jarrett Hurd
  2. Jermell Charlo
  3. Jaime Munguia
  4. Erislandy Lara
  5. Demetrius Andrade
  6. Austin Trout
  7. Kell Brook
  8. Liam Smith
  9. Brian Castano
  10. Sadam Ali

Welterweight

  1. Errol Spence Jr.
  2. Terrence Crawford
  3. Keith Thurman
  4. Danny Garcia
  5. Shawn Porter
  6. Jeff Horn
  7. Manny Pacquiao
  8. Lucas Matthysse
  9. Jessie Vargas
  10. Amir Khan

The rest of the rankings are in the next page.

Light welterweight

  1. Regis Prograis
  2. Terry Flanagan
  3. Jose Ramirez
  4. Kiryl Relikh
  5. Viktor Postol
  6. Antonio Orozco
  7. Sergey Lipinets
  8. Adrien Broner
  9. Eduard Troyanovski
  10. Julius Indongo

Lightweight

  1. Vasiliy Lomachenko
  2. Mikey Garcia
  3. Jorge Linares
  4. Robert Easter Jr.
  5. Raymundo Beltran
  6. Anthony Crolla
  7. Luke Campbell
  8. Dejan Zlaticanin
  9. Richard Commey
  10. Jose Pedraza

Junior lightweight

  1. Gervonta Davis
  2. Miguel Berchelt
  3. Francisco Vargas
  4. Alberto Machado
  5. Jezreel Corrales
  6. Robinson Castellanos
  7. Miguel Roman
  8. Tevin Farmer
  9. Billy Dib
  10. Kenichi Ogawa

Featherweight

  1. Leo Santa Cruz
  2. Gary Russell Jr.
  3. Carl Frampton
  4. Josh Warrington
  5. Abner Mares
  6. Oscar Valdez
  7. Scott Quigg
  8. Lee Selby
  9. Joseph Diaz
  10. Nonito Donaire

Light featherweight

  1. Guillermo Rigondeaux
  2. Moises Flores
  3. Rey Vargas
  4. Isaac Dogboe
  5. Danny Roman
  6. Jessie Magdaleno
  7. Moises Flores
  8. Hugo Ruiz
  9. Ryosuke Iwasa
  10. Julio Ceja

Bantamweight

  1. Naoya Inoue
  2. Emmanuel Rodriguez
  3. Ryan Burnett
  4. Jamie McDonnell
  5. Juan Carlos Payano
  6. Zolani Tete
  7. Lee Haskins
  8. Luis Nery
  9. Zhanat Zhakiyanov
  10. Liborio Solis

Light bantamweight

  1. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
  2. Jerwin Ancajas
  3. Khalid Yafai
  4. Donnie Nietes
  5. Juan Francisco Estrada
  6. McWilliams Arroyo
  7. Carlos Cuadras
  8. Roman Gonzalez
  9. John Riel Casimero
  10. Jonas Sultan

Flyweight

  1. Artem Dalakian
  2. Kosei Tanaka
  3. Cristofer Rosales
  4. Daigo Higa
  5. Sho Kimura
  6. Juan Carlos Reveco
  7. Moruti Mthalane
  8. Francisco Rodriguez Jr.
  9. Andrew Selby
  10. Vincent Legrand

Light flyweight/Strawweight

  1. Wanheng Menayothin
  2. Ken Shiro
  3. ​​​​​​​Hekkie Budler
  4. Hiroto Kyoguchi
  5. ​​​​​​​Ryoichi Taguchi
  6. Knockout CP Freshmart
  7. Milan Melindo
  8. Angel Acosta
  9. Tatsuya Fukuhara
  10. Jose Argumedo
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