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2016-04-13
Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's Rankings As of April 12- Welterweight Throne Filled
The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's latest rankings- those based on fights held through April 10, 2016- were posted on the TBRB's website April 12, 2016. The Transnationals have changes in their Pound-For-Pound top ten and the top tens for six of the seventeen divisions and now recognize Manny Pacquiao as the welterweight champion of the world:

POUND-FOR-POUND:

1 (1) Roman Gonzalez
2 (2) Manny Pacquiao
3 (3) Sergey Kovalev
4 (5) Juan Francisco Estrada
5 (6) Gennady Golovkin
6 (7) Andre Ward
7 (4) Timothy Bradley
8 (8) Terence Crawford
9 (9) Guiilermo Rigondeaux
10 (10) Naoya Inoue

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
No one

HEAVYWEIGHT:

Champion: Tyson Fury

1 (1) Wladimir Klitschko
2 (2) Alexander Povetkin
3 (3) Luis Ortiz
4 (4) Deontay Wilder
5 (8) Anthony Joshua
6 (5) Kubrat Pulev
7 (6) Bermane Stiverne
8 (7) Carlos Takam
9 (10) Lucas Browne
10 (-) Joseph Parker

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
#9- Charles Martin

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (2) James DeGale
2 (7) Gilberto Ramirez
3 (3) Badou Jack
4 (4) George Groves
5 (5) Anthony Dirrell
6 (1) Arthur Abraham
7 (6) Fedor Chudinov
8 (8) Lucian Bute
9 (9) Callum Smith
10 (10) Martin Murray

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
No one (no changes)

WELTERWEIGHT:

Champion: Manny Pacquiao (had been #1)

1 (3) Kell Brook
2 (2) Timothy Bradley
3 (4) Amir Khan
4 (5) Keith Thurman
5 (6) Shawn Porter
6 (7) Danny Garcia
7 (8) Jessie Vargas
8 (9) Sammy Vasquez
9 (10) Errol Spence, Jr.
10 (-) Dmitry Mikhaylenko

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
No one

Editor's Note:
- This past Saturday night, Pacquiao, who has won world titles in eight divisions, captured his record-setting fifth lineal world championship. He previously held lineal titles at 112, 126, 130, and 140.
- Pacquiao also joined Bob Fitzsimmons (middleweight, heavyweight, light heavyweight) and Henry Armstrong (featherweight, welterweight, lightweight) as the only boxers to have held lineal titles in three traditional (AKA original, AKA glamour) divisions.

JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Viktor Postol
2 (2) Terence Crawford
3 (3) Lucas Matthysse
4 (4) Jose Benavidez
5 (5) Mauricio Herrera
6 (6) Ruslan Provodnikov
7 (7) Adrien Broner
8 (9) Eduard Troyanovsky
9 (8) Antonio Orozco
10 (10) Adrian Granados

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
No one

Editor's Note:
- #4 ranked Jose Benavidez has relinquished the WBA Interim World super lightweight title and is now ranked by the WBA as #6 at 147. He weighed in at 152 1/4 for his December 12, 2015 UD 10 win over Sidney Sequiera.

FEATHERWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Simpiwe Vetyeka
2 (2) Vasyl Lomachenko
3 (3) Lee Selby
4 (4) Gary Russell, Jr.
5 (5) Leo Santa Cruz
6 (6) Abner Mares
7 (-) Oscar Valdez
8 (7) Jesus Marcelo Andres Cuellar
9 (9) Oscar Escandon
10 (10) Joseph Diaz, Jr.

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
#8- Evgeny Gradovich

JUNIOR FLYWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Donnie Nietes
2 (2) Ryoichi Taguchi
3 (3) Pedro Guevara
4 (4) Ganigan Lopez
5 (6) Akira Yaegashi
6 (7) Javier Mendoza
7 (8) Rey Loreto
8 (9) Moises Fuentes
9 (10) Jonathan Taconing
10 (-) Jesse Espinas

Out from rankings posted April 5, 2016:
#5- Yu Kimura (retired)

Editor's Note:
- #7 ranked Rey Loreto knocked out Fapikat Twin Gym in the first round on January 22, 2016 to win the vacant WBA International title at 105 pounds. Loreto is currently ranked #2 at 105 by the WBA and #13 at 105 by the WBO. Loreto does hold the IBO World title at 108 and is ranked #3 at 108 by the WBC, #7 at 108 by TTR, and #10 at 108 by The Ring.


TTR's listings of the Transnationals' rankings have been updated and can be perused in their entirety by clicking on the FORUM option on the left and then by scrolling down to the BOXING ORGANIZATIONS RANKINGS option and clicking on it.

 
Article By: Ken Pollitt