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2018-03-07
Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's Rankings As Of March 6
The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's latest rankings- those based on fights held through March 3, 2018- were posted on the TBRB's website March 6, 2018. One divisional throne was declared open and there were changes in five divisional Top Tens:

HEAVYWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Anthony Joshua
2 (2) Deontay Wilder
3 (3) Joseph Parker
4 (-) Luis Ortiz
5 (4) Kubrat Pulev
6 (5) Alexander Povetkin
7 (6) Dillian Whyte
8 (7) Carlos Takam
9 (8) Jarrell Miller
10 (9) Dominic Breazeale

Out from rankings posted February 27, 2018:
#10- Tony Bellew

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT:

Champion: Adonis Stevenson

1 (1) Sergey Kovalev
2 (8) Dmitry Bivol
3 (3) Badou Jack
4 (4) Eleider Alvarez
5 (2) Sullivan Barrera
6 (5) Oleksandr Gvozdyk
7 (6) Joe Smith, Jr.
8 (7) Artur Beterbiev
9 (9) Marcus Browne
10 (-) Anthony Yarde

Out from rankings posted February 27, 2018:
#10- Igor Mikhalkin

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) George Groves
2 (2) Gilberto Ramirez
3 (3) Anthony Dirrell
4 (4) Chris Eubank, Jr.
5 (5) Caleb Truax
6 (6) David Benavidez
7 (-) Jose Uzcategui
8 (7) James DeGale
9 (8) Callum Smith
10 (9) Lolenga Mock

Out from rankings posted February 27, 2018:
#10- Arthur Abraham

WELTERWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Keith Thurman
2 (2) Errol Spence, Jr.
3 (4) Shawn Porter
4 (5) Danny Garcia
5 (6) Jeff Horn
6 (7) Manny Pacquiao
7 (8) Qudratillo Abduqaxorov
8 (9) Carlos Adames
9 (10) Yordenis Ugas
10 (-) Jessie Vargas

Out from rankings posted February 27, 2018:
#3- Kell Brook (now campaigning at 154)

Editor's Note:
- #8 ranked Carlos Adames, who has fought above the welterweight class in two of his last three bouts, has vacated the WBA Fedelatin welterweight title, weighed in at 156 for his TKO-6 win over Adrian Jose Perez Aparicio on November 18, 2017, and is now ranked #4 at 154 by the WBA. He is, however, ranked #13 at 147 by the IBF and Top Rank plans to promote him as a welterweight.

JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Mikey Garcia (is also #1 at 135)
2 (2) Sergey Lipinets
3 (3) Viktor Postol
4 (4) Adrien Broner
5 (5) Julius Indongo
6 (6) Josh Taylor
7 (7) Antonio Orozco
8 (8) Eduard Troyanovsky
9 (9) Regis Prograis
10 (10) Jose Carlos Ramirez

Out from rankings posted February 27, 2018:
Champion- Terence Crawford- has voluntarily relinquished the IBF, WBO, WBA Super, and WBC titles at 140 and is scheduled to challenge WBO World welterweight champion Jeff Horn on April 14.

BANTAMWEIGHT:

Champion: OPEN

1 (1) Ryan Burnett
2 (3) Zhanat Zhakiyanov
3 (5) Juan Carlos Payano
4 (6) Jamie McDonnell
5 (7) Zolani Tete
6 (8) Liborio Solis
7 (9) Yonfrez Parejo
8 (10) Omar Narvaez
9 (-) Lee Haskins
10 (-) Takuma Inoue

Out from rankings posted February 27, 2018:
#2- Luis Nery (weighed 120 and 121 for his last two bouts)
#4- Shinsuke Yamanaka (retired)


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