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2017-04-13
Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's Rankings As of April 11
The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's latest rankings- those based on fights held through April 9, 2017- were posted on the TBRB's website April 11, 2017. There were changes in Pound-For-Pound rankings and in six divisional top 10s:

POUND-FOR-POUND:

1 (1) Andre Ward
2 (2) Sergey Kovalev
3 (3) Roman Gonzalez
4 (4) Manny Pacquiao
5 (5) Terence Crawford
6 (7) Vasyl Lomachenko
7 (6) Gennady Golovkin
8 (8) Naoya Inoue
9 (9) Leo Santa Cruz
10 (10) Shinsuke Yamanaka

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
No one

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT:

Champion: Adonis Stevenson

1 (1) Andre Ward
2 (2) Sergey Kovalev
3 (3) Joe Smith, Jr.
4 (4) Nathan Cleverly
5 (5) Sullivan Barrera
6 (6) Eleider Alvarez
7 (9) Oleksandr Gvozdyk
8 (7) Artur Beterbiev
9 (8) Juergen Braehmer
10 (10) Marcus Browne

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
No one

WELTERWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Manny Pacquiao
2 (2) Keith Thurman
3 (3) Kell Brook
4 (5) Shawn Porter
5 (6) Errol Spence, Jr.
6 (7) Danny Garcia
7 (8) Jessie Vargas
8 (9) Lamont Peterson
9 (10) Felix Diaz
10 (-) Qudratillo Abduqaxorov

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
#4- Timothy Bradley (prolonged inactivity)

LIGHTWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Mikey Garcia
2 (2) Jorge Linares
3 (3) Terry Flanagan
4 (4) Rances Barthelemy
5 (5) Robert Easter, Jr.
6 (6) Anthony Crolla
7 (7) Dejan Zlaticanin
8 (8) Denis Shafikov
9 (9) Richard Commey
10 (-) Raymundo Beltran

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
#10- Petr Petrov

Editor's note:
- #4 ranked Rances Barthelemy vacated the IBF World lightweight title on June 6, 2016 to campaign as a junior welterweight.

JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Vasyl Lomachenko
2 (2) Jezreel Corrales
3 (3) Miguel Berchelt
4 (4) Takashi Miura
5 (5) Orlando Salido
6 (6) Francisco Vargas
7 (8) Gervonta Davis
8 (7) Jason Sosa
9 (9) Roman Martinez
10 (10) Takashi Uchiyama

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
No one

JUNIOR FEATHERWEIGHT:

Champion: Guillermo Rigondeaux

1 (1) Jessie Magdaleno
2 (2) Nonito Donaire
3 (3) Rey Vargas
4 (4) Yukinori Oguni
5 (5) Jonathan Guzman
6 (6) Hugo Ruiz
7 (7) Shingo Wake
8 (8) Genesis Servania
9 (9) Moises Flores
10 (-) Shun Kubo

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
#10- Nehomar Cermeno

JUNIOR FLYWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Pedro Guevara
2 (2) Ryoichi Taguchi
3 (3) Carlos Canizales
4 (4) Kosei Tanaka
5 (5) Ganigan Lopez
6 (6) Akira Yaegashi
7 (7) Javier Mendoza
8 (8) Rey Loreto
9 (9) Jonathan Taconing
10 (-) Felix Alvarado

Out from rankings posted April 4, 2017:
#10- Jesse Espinas (Editor's note: Espinas is now campaigning at 105.)

Addditonal editor's note:
- #7 ranked Javier Mendoza was stopped by Mexican flyweight champion Ulises Lara in the 4th round of a scheduled 10-round, non-title bout on October 22, 2016. Mendoza weighed in at 112 1/2; Lara at 115. (Note: Mendoza last won on May 30, 2015 and last fought as a junior flyweight on December 29, 2015.)


TTR's listings of the TBRB's rankings have been updated and can be perused in their entirety by 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