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TTR's Men's Pound-For-Pound and divisional rankings, based on fight results through Tuesday, March 26, 2024, were compiled and posted on Tuesday, March 26 and Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

TTR's Women's Pound-For-Pound and divisional rankings, based on fight results through Wednesday, March 27, 2024, were compiled and posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board's latest rankings- those based on fights held through March 16, 2024- were posted on the TBRB's website March 18, 2024.

The Ring's latest ratings- those based on fights held through March 16, 2024- were posted on The Ring's website March 18, 2024.

The WBC's ratings were updated March 19, 2024.

The WBA's February 2024 ratings, based on results through February 29, 2024, were published and posted on the WBA's website March 1, 2024.

The WBO's March 2024 ratings were posted on the WBO's website on March 20, 2024.

The IBO's March 2024 computerized rankings were posted on the IBO's website March 8, 2024.

The IBF's February 2024 ratings were posted on the IBF's website March 8, 2024.


To check them out, go to "The 13th Round Forum Index", scroll down to "KSTAT's CORNER", then click on "BOXING ORGANIZATIONS RANKINGS". Each weight class is listed. The Ring's and the TBRB's ratings can be found for each division below the links to the ratings of the WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO.
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A few things you'll notice when you peruse the WBC rankings:

European heavyweight champion Vladimir Virchis is the new #1 contender since Samuel Peter is now listed as the interim champion.

Bernard Hopkins is stll rated the #6 contender at 175 behind Adrian Diaconu (#1), Thomas Ulrich (#2), Chris Henry (#3), Peter Venancio (#4), and Danny Green (#5). Tarver's ranked 9th, Roy Jones Jr. 10th.

Jurgen Brahmer has taken over the #1 contender's position at 168.

Jermain Taylor is now ranked as the #1 contender for new middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik's title. Winky Wright is ranked #5.

Ricky Hatton is still the #1 contender at 147 but he's now followed by Andre Berto at #2.

Timothy Bradley has take over as the top ranked contender for Junior Witter's title.

At 112, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam is now ranked #1 ahead of his #2 ranked stablemate Ponomrunglek Kratingdaeng (AKA Panomrooglek Kratingdaenggym). (Why he was behind Kratingdaennggym to begin with is a mystery.)

One division below, Omar Nino and Omar Salado are #1 and #2 as the rated challengers for Edgar Sosa's title (and will soon meet in an eliminator).
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Hey KSTAT, who is Virchis? Never heard of the guy. You seen him fight? Just curious is all.
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scappoosejohn wrote:Hey KSTAT, who is Virchis? Never heard of the guy. You seen him fight? Just curious is all.
Virchis is big (6' 4 1/2", 240 plus pounds). He's won 23 of 24 professional bouts and 19 of his victories have come by knockout.

On the way up, Virchis, who is from the Ukraine, beat the usual "suspects" (Thomas Williams, Julius Francis, Cliff Couser, etc.) and convinced German-based Russian prospect Balu Sauer to find another line of work.

In 2005, he showed he was for real in a showdown with then fellow highly regarded prospect (and now the WBA's #5 contender) Taras Bidenko. He stopped Bidenko in the 12th round. Later that year, he won a close but unanimous decision over England's Michael Sprott.

Virchis suffered his only loss when, in 2006, he dropped a majority decision to Ruslan Chagaev but in his next bout, he annexed the European title from former Olympic bronze medalist Paolo Vidoz, stopping the Italian in the 6th round.

He outpointed Vidoz in a rematch this past May.
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KSTAT124 wrote:
scappoosejohn wrote:Hey KSTAT, who is Virchis? Never heard of the guy. You seen him fight? Just curious is all.
Virchis is big (6' 4 1/2", 240 plus pounds). He's won 23 of 24 professional bouts and 19 of his victories have come by knockout.

On the way up, Virchis, who is from the Ukraine, beat the usual "suspects" (Thomas Williams, Julius Francis, Cliff Couser, etc.) and convinced German-based Russian prospect Balu Sauer to find another line of work.

In 2005, he showed he was for real in a showdown with then fellow highly regarded prospect (and now the WBA's #5 contender) Taras Bidenko. He stopped Bidenko in the 12th round. Later that year, he won a close but unanimous decision over England's Michael Sprott.

Virchis suffered his only loss when, in 2006, he dropped a majority decision to Ruslan Chagaev but in his next bout, he annexed the European title from former Olympic bronze medalist Paolo Vidoz, stopping the Italian in the 6th round.

He outpointed Vidoz in a rematch this past May.
Thanks KSTAT, I appreciate the reply.
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Virchis Vs Vidoz I
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we have a couple of fighst from oth on TTR, including both of these fights for sure. Virchis has a very good resume. i always keep a eye on the guy each time he fights, unfortunately, th egerman channels rarely show his fights since he is often on the same card as more explosive heavyweights (germans like to do hevyweight cards) like dimitrenko, povetkin, boytsov, platov,krasniqi... against higher opposition, he usualy gets decisions, and can be somewhat boring since he fights in spurts. i know he has some good names on his resume, julius francis (who fought tyson...) sprott (recently ktfo harrison), taras bidenko (another popular heavyweight that falls under the radarin america), vidoz twice (olympian medalist), cliff clouser (tkod barret recently in an upset), and only lost once in a majority decision against chagaev, who apparently wasnt in his usual shape.

Virchis style is good for tactical heavyweight fights, but against pressuring power, i dont think hed perform that well imo.


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The WBO's October ratings have some oddities that are not quite balanced by the few praise-worthy rankings scattered throughout the 17 divisions.

While Bernard Hopkins is listed as the #1 contender for Zsolt Erdei's light heavyweight title, Gary Lockett is the top ranked contender for Kelly Pavlik's new middleweight belt.

While former champion Antonio Margarito is the no. 1 contender for Paul Williams' welterweight diadem, Michael Jennings and Shamone Alvarez are Williams' no. 2 and 3 contenders respectively.

Terdsak Jandaeng, Sod Looknongyangtoy, former champion Ratanachai Sor Vorapin, and Pramansak Phosawan (also spelled Pramuansak Posuwan) have all worked their way back to being the no. 1 contenders for the WBO featherweight, junior featherweight, bantamweight, and junior bantamweight titles respectively. Do we really need a Daniel Ponce De Leon-Sod Looknongyangtoy III? If Looknongyangtoy had earned his third shot the way Daisuke Naito earned his against then WBC flyweight champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, it would be understandable but Sod's the top contender mainly because he's the WBO Asia Pacific champ. In fact all four Thai top WBO contenders hold the WBO Asia Pacific title in their respective weight classes.
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The Ring's ratings for the period ending October 15 only have changes in 3 divisions- the lightweights, the junior bantamweights, and the junior flyweights.

The IBF's ratings are, as usual, sloppy and, in some cases, baffling.

Some examples (there are many more but this is a sampling):

Jermain Taylor is now listed amongst the middleweight contenders (at #5, behind #3 Sebastian Sylvester and #4 Giovanni Lorenzo- the top 2 spots are "NOT RATED") but is also still listed as being the WBC's and the WBO's champion.

In Jin Chi is still listed as being the WBC featherweight champion.

Why is Omar Salado rated in 2 divisions including one in which he does not fight?

Why did Ricardo Cordoba fall 8 spots in the junior featherweight division despite winning a fight since the IBF's previous ratings?

The same holds for Anselmo Moreno who the IBF dropped 4 spots in the bantamweight rankings despite the fact he's won 15 in a row including all 4 he's fought in 2007.
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In The Ring's latest ratings- for the period ending October 22, 2007, there are changes in only two divisions- the super middleweights and the middleweights.

Lucian Bute, on the strength of his IBF-title winning performance versus Alejandro Berrio, moved up to #3 while the inactive Jeff Lacy, still recovering from shoulder surgery, is rated #4.

Randy Griffin pushed Wayne Elcock out of the top ten by virtue of his draw with WBA middleweight champion, and The Ring's #5 rated middleweight contender, Felix Sturm. Griffin takes over the #10 spot. Elcock, who recently defeated Howard Eastman and replaced Eastman in the ratings, is scheduled to fight the IBF middleweight champion, The Ring's #2 rated middleweight contender Arthur Abraham, in Switzerland, December 8.
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The WBA's "September 2007" (meaning "September 15, 2007 through October 23, 2007") were posted on the WBA website on October 25.

Among the latest developments: Kali Meehan moved up from #15 to #4 in the heavyweight division (he defeated the previous #4 contender, DaVarryl Williamson who is no longer ranked); Jurgen Brahmer (listed in some other ratings as "Juergen Braehmer") is now ranked #2 in the super middleweight rankings (behind top contender Dennis Inkin); Daniel Santos has taken over the no. 1 contender's spot at 154 pounds and has "official challenger" status (he defeated Jose Antonio Rivera in an eliminator- Rivera fell from #4 to #10); Shane Mosley, Andre Berto, Ushiwakamaru Akibei, and Joaquin Zamora have entered the welterweight rankings at #3, #8, #12, and #15 respectively; super featherweight Miguel Acosta, who beat Anges Adjaho in an eliminator, moved up to #3 from #14 while Adjaho fell from #9 to #14 (note: Manny Pacquiao is rated #1 and Israel Perez, who had won an eliminator in May, is ranked #2 and is still listed as the "official challenger"); Juan Carlos Salgado, scheduled to face WBA super featherweight champion Edwin Valero, was moved up from #15 at 126 pounds to #12 at 130; NABA champion Johnnie Edwards and PABA champion Ji-Hoon Kim entered the featherweight rankings at #12 and #15 respectively; and the fighter listed as the #1 super bantamweight contender and the "official challenger" in last month's rankings, Jose Arboleda, was dropped completely out of the top 15 and the no. 1 position is listed as "NOT RATED" (Arboleda was said to in negotiations to fight in another organization's eliminator and was named but not indicted in the case in which Vicente Mosquera faces murder charges).
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The Ring's new weekly ratings- for the period ending October 29, 2007- have changes in 5 divisions- the heavyweights, the light heavyweights, the welterweights, the junior welterweights, and the junior featherweights.

Chris Byrd (previously ranked #8) is out, replaced by Alexander Povetkin at #10 (Povetkin stopped Byrd in the 11th round Saturday). Vladimir Virchis and Tony Thompson each moved up one to #8 and #9 respectively.

Hugo Garay, who, Saturday, lost by disqualification to unranked Franco Raul Sanchez in a stay-active cruiserweight bout, fell from #8 to #10 in the light heavyweight division. As a result, Adrian Diaconu and Stipe Drews each moved up, to #8 and #9 respectively.

European champion Jackson Bonsu, on the strength of a fine showing (KO-3) in his October 27th defense against Nordine Mouchi, moved up from #10 to #9 in the welterweight rankings, with the previous #9, Oktay Urkal, slipping to #10.

Jose Luis Castillo, despite, or maybe because of, stopping unranked Adan Casillas in a welterweight bout Saturday, was dropped from the junior welterweight top ten. He had been rated #6. Lovemore Ndou, Juan Lazcano, Demetrius Hopkins, and Ricardo Torres each moved up one spot from their previous respective rankings of 7, 8, 9, and 10 and Kendall Holt moved in at #10.

IBF junior featherweight champion Steve Molitor, who successfully defended his title (UD 12) October 27 against Thai veteran Fahsan 3K Battery, exchanged places with another Thai veteran, former WBA champion Somsak Sithchatchawal. Molitor is now rated #4 while Sithchatchawal is #5.

There are a few, not many by any means, problems, in my opinion, with The Ring's ratings. In Jin Chi, who vacated the WBC featherweight title months ago and who announced his intention to become involved with MMA, is rated #2 at 126 pounds. Chi, who left the door open for a possible return to boxing but as a junior lightweight, has not boxed since regaining the WBC title last December. Jorge Linares won the title vacated by Chi in July.

The Ring ranks former two-time WBA bantamweight title challenger Ricardo Cordoba as the #7 contender at 118 pounds. Cordoba, who, in those title shots, fought to two draws with current WBA champion Waldimir Sidorenko, is ranked by all of the major sanctioning bodies at 122 pounds- the WBA as #4, the WBC as #6, the WBO as #10 and the IBF as #12. He has been campaigning as a junior featherweight (super bantamweight) and currently holds both the WBA Fedelatin and Panamanian national titles at that weight.

In a similar situation, Vic Darchinyan, who recently won the vacant IBO super flyweight title, is ranked #6 as a flyweight. Darchinyan has announced his intentions to continue to fight at 115 and is, depending on the circumstances, open for fights at 118.
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Are WEEKLY rankings really necessary? Just curious. I'm thinking it's a lot of unnecessary work.
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supermaxpapic wrote:Are WEEKLY rankings really necessary? Just curious. I'm thinking it's a lot of unnecessary work.
I think you have to ask the staff at The Ring. What's good about them is that they keep the ratings up-to-date. Monthly ratings (especially if they go longer than a 4-week period- the WBA and the IBF are notorious for often getting their ratings out late) can look pretty odd at times. A title change or a big upset in a bout involving a major contender occurring during the first week of a new rating period will not be reflected in the ratings for at least 3 weeks, maybe more.

Weekly ratings usually only have changes in a few divisions. There was actually a week a few months ago where The Ring kept each division's top ten the same as the previous week. That's the only time that's happened since I've monitoring their ratings for TTR. Over the last few weeks, as posted above, The Ring has only had changes in 2 to 5 divisions each week (October 15- 3 divisions, October 22- 2, October 29- 5) so it doesn't really appear a lot work is involved.

TTR's posters' rankings are done on a monthly basis. I don't think I could make the time to compile them on a weekly basis. (Strangely enough, I've been working on them tonight and just took a break to check the web for any results of which I wasn't previously aware. On my way to post a result in the RANKED FIGHTERS IN ACTION thread, I "stopped in" here.)
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Ivan Calderon at #20 still does not make any sense to me. He is a top 10 or even 5 guy
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In The Ring's latest weekly ratings, which are for the period ending November 5, there's movement in 4 of the 17 weight divisions- middleweight, junior middleweight, featherweight, and strawweight.

Edison Miranda, now campaigning at 168 pounds, was dropped from the middleweight rankings and Wayne Elcock, who had been pushed out of the top ten as a result of Randy Griffin holding Felix Sturm to a draw, re-entered.

Kassim Ouma, as a result of his loss to unranked Saul Roman, dropped out of the junior middleweight top ten and Sergio Martinez, who knocked out Roman in a WBC eliminator earlier this year, moved in.

At 126, Robert Guerrero moved up from #3 to #2 as a result of his first round stoppage of Martin Honorio who fell from #7 to #9.

Roman Gonzalez, who KO'ed Eriberto Gejon in one round, took Gejon's place in the strawweight top ten.
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I find it very interesting that Honorio gets knocked out in 1 round and only falls from #7 to #9 while Kassim Ouma drops out entirely. I understand that he lost to an unranked fighter but getting knocked out in one round is pretty bad...
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David wrote:I find it very interesting that Honorio gets knocked out in 1 round and only falls from #7 to #9 while Kassim Ouma drops out entirely. I understand that he lost to an unranked fighter but getting knocked out in one round is pretty bad...
Gejon got knocked out in one and was dropped from the strawweight rankings. I guess the difference is that both Ouma and Gejon lost to fighters who were not previously ranked. Gejon was replaced by the fighter (Gonzalez) who beat him and Ouma was replaced by a fighter (Martinez) who had beaten the fighter (Roman) who beat him. Honorio, who is the only fighter so far to defeat Steven Luevano- The Ring's new #7 featherweight contender (up from #8), lost to a fighter who was ranked higher than him in Guerrero now ranked #2 (up from #3). That's probably why he was not dropped further than 2 places.
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Yeah...I can see their reasoning behind not dropping him from the rankings. It could also be that there really isn't anyone knocking on the door to get into the top 10 in that division, at least in their eyes.
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David wrote:Yeah...I can see their reasoning behind not dropping him from the rankings. It could also be that there really isn't anyone knocking on the door to get into the top 10 in that division, at least in their eyes.
I thought that too that they might not see anyone else as Top Ten worthy- until I realized that they don't include Hector Velazquez, Gamaliel Diaz, Rodolfo Lopez, Derry Matthews or Takahiro Aoh.
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The Ring's latest weekly ratings, for the period ending November 12, had changes in only 3 divisions.

The cruiserweights had the most movement with previously 4th ranked David Haye taking over as champion, Steve Cunningham moving up from #2 to #1, former champ Jean-Marc Mormeck now rated #2, O'Neil Bell falling from #1 to #3, and Krzysztof Wlodarczyk slipping one place to #4.

Sakio Bika moved up from #9 to #8 in the super middleweight rankings, switching places with Denis Inkin.

Jose Armando Santa Cruz, on the strength of his showing in his highly debatable loss to champion Joel Casamayor, moved up from #8 to #6 with Almazbek "Kid Diamond" Raiymkulov and Zahir Raheem each slipping one spot to #7 and #8 respectively.
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The WBO's November 2007 rankings include movement in each of the 17 divisions. For example, in the heavyweight division, Calvin Brock (formerly #5), Evander Holyfield (formerly #8), and Shane Cameron (formerly #14) were replaced in the top 15 by J. D. Chapman (#10), Jameel McCline (#14), and Friday Ahunanya (#15).

Jermain Taylor (#5) and Edison "Pantera" Miranda (#9) are now both ranked as super middleweights. Both had been rated as middleweights in the October rankings- Taylor at #4, Miranda at #9.

The champions and no. 1 contenders in each division are a follows:

Mini-Flyweight- Donnie Nietes/Daniel Reyes
Jr. Flyweight- Ivan Calderon/Hugo Cazares (up from #2)
Flyweight- Omar Narvaez/Alejandro Hernandez (up from #2)
Jr. Bantamweight- Fernando Montiel/Pramansak Phosawan (AKA Pramuansak Posuwan)
Bantamweight- Gerry Penalosa/Ratanachai Sor Vorapin
Jr. Featherweight- Daniel Ponce De Leon/Sod Looknongyangtoy
Featherweight- Steven Luevano/Terdsak Jandaeng
Jr. Lightweight- Joan Guzman/Manny Pacquiao (the division also has an interim champion- Alex Arthur)
Lightweight- Juan Diaz/Anthony Peterson (the division also has an interim champion- Michael Katsidis)
Jr. Welterweight- Ricardo Torres/Willy Blain
Welterweight- Paul Williams/Antonio Margarito
Jr. Middleweight- Sergiy Dzinziruk (AKA Sergei Dzindziruk)/Oscar De La Hoya
Middleweight- Keely Pavlik/Gary Lockett
Sup. Middleweight- Joe Calzaghe/Juergen Braehmer
Light Heavyweight- Zsolt Erdei/Bernard Hopkins
Jr. Heavyweight- Enzo Maccarinelli/Marco Huck
Heavyweight- Sultan Ibragimov/Tony Thompson

(The champions are all the same as last month and, unless noted, the no. 1 contenders remained the same as last month as well.)
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The IBF's latest ratings, posted on their website November 20, are marred by sloppiness and divisional top 15s already outdated.

Heavyweights: does not reflect Eddie Chambers' win over Calvin Brock.

Cruiserweights: Jean-Marc Mormeck is listed as the WBC champion (with Virgil Hil listed as the WBA champ)- David Haye should be listed in both categories (Hill's title is secondary to Haye's).

Super Middleweights: Mikkel Kessler is still listed as the WBA and WBC champion- Joe Calzaghe is only listed as the WBO champ.

Middleweights: Jermain Taylor listed as the WBC and WBO champion (should be Kelly Pavlik)- Taylor is also listed as the #5 contender; Sakio Bika, Fulgencio Zuniga, and Sam Soliman, all fighting as super middleweights, are rated at 160.

Lightweights: Julio Diaz is listed as the IBF, WBA, and WBO champion and as the contender. Juan Diaz should be listed as the champion of the 3 aforementioned organizations. Julio Diaz has never held either the WBA or WBO title.

Junior Lightweights: does not reflect Cassius Baloyi's win, in an eliminator for the #1 position, over Gairy St. Clair.

Featherweights: does not reflect Rogers Mtagwa's loss to Billy Dib or Martin Honorio's loss to Robert Guerrero; In Jini Chi is listed as the WBC champion (should be Jorge Linares).

Junior Featherweights: does not reflect Olivier Lontchi's win over Cruz Carvajal.

Junior Flyweights: Hugo Cazares listed as both the WBO champion and the #9 contender (Ivan Calderon is the WBO champion).

Note: it's interesting that the IBF has been holding eliminators that DO NOT result in fighters moving into the #1 or #2 slots. Z Gorres' win over Eric Ortiz and Luis Maldonado's win over Sergio Espinoza only moved Gorres and Maldonado up to the #6 and #3 spots in their respective divisions. In both divisions, junior bantamweight and flyweight, the #1 and #2 spots are "NOT RATED." Gorres will be fighting #5 rated Vic Darchinyan in another IBF junior bantamweight eliminator while Maldonado is luckier. He's getting a shot at IBF flyweight champion Nonito Donaire.
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THE RING's latest weekly ratings (for the period ending November 26) contain no changes.

There is a problem- light flyweight contender Omar Salado's and strawweight contender Omar Soto's records have not been updated. Salado is 18-0-2 not 17-0-2 and Omar Soto, who, two fights ago, lost to Franky Soto on the same card Salado picked up his 18th career victory is listed as 13-1-1 not 13-2-1. Salado's win, over substitute opponent Jose Luis Trejo, would not have any bearing on his place in the rankings but "El Pastor's" loss most likely would.
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The WBA 's latest ratings ("created" on November 29, 2007) contain some miracles- just like last month's super middleweight rankings miraculously included Jose Clavero just in time for him to be announced as Anthony Mundine's next opponent. There's talk that Matt Skelton will challenge Ruslan Chagaev but Skelton wasn't rated. Miraculously, in the November 29 rankings, he's #15. Edwin Valero signs to defend against Zaid Zavaleta but Zavaleta is not ranked- he is now- miraculously he appears in the November 29 rankings as the #13 super featherweight contender.

Most divisions had movement, some more notable than others. For example, former super welterweight champions Jose Antonio Rivera and Alejandro "Terra" Garcia were dropped from the ratings at 154 and have been replaced by NABF champion Andrey Tsurkan and unbeaten Ronald Hearns.

Another notable development is that Yuriorkis Gamboa, 7-0 with 6 KOs, who has yet to fight a round scheduled for 6 rounds, is new to the WBA's featherweight rankings, debuting at #5. His win over Adailton De Jesus is what got him there.

Edit: the more I see this, the more I have to, at the very least, bring this to others' attention: Among the WBA's top 15 heavyweights (now some of the potential to crack the ratings but....) Taras Bidenko (#5), Michael Moorer (#6), Mike Mollo (#8), JD Chapman (#13), and Kevin Johnson (an almost certain future contender; #14). With the exception of Bidenko who could be, at this point, borderline top 15 (cetainly not #5 yet!), do any of these fighters currently belong in the top 15? All are (or should be viewed as being) at least one fight away.
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The Ring's latest weekly ratings (for the period that ended December 3) contain changes in only one division- the strawweights.

Oleydong Sithsamerchai moved up from #8 to #3, while Eagle Den Junlaphan (who The Ring still lists as "Eagle Kyowa") slipped from #3 to #4. As a result, Muhammad Rachman, Katsunari Takayama, Roman Gonzalez, and Donnie Nietes all moved down one spot from #4 through #7 to #5 through #8.

For the most part, The Ring's ratings are pretty decent.

There are a few problems but none major.

The #9 and #10 contenders at 105 are Rodel Mayol, who challenged for a title at 108 in his last bout, and Omar "El Pastor" Soto, whose record is still incorrectly listed as 13-1-1 (he has 2 losses).

Omar Salado, The Ring's #9 contender at 108, is still shown to have a 17-0-2 record despite picking up his 18th win on the same card as Soto suffered his 2nd defeat.

Vic Darchinyan, who in his last bout, won the IBO super flyweight title and who is going to fight Z Gorres in an IBF junior bantamweight title eliminator, is still ranked at 112 while Ricardo Cordoba, who is ranked by all 4 of the major sanctioning bodies at 122 and who holds both the WBA Fedelatin and Panamanian national super bantamweight titles, is still ranked at 118.

Lastly, In Jin Chi, who vacated the WBC featherweight title earlier this year and will either participate in MMA or return to the boxing ring as a junior lightweight, is ranked #3 at 126.

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