List of current boxing rankings
This is a list of current professional boxing rankings, which includes the latest rankings by each one of the sport's four major sanctioning bodies, as well as other well-regarded sites and entities.
Overview
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system. The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked contender. The WBA often has more than one champion, none of which are ranked by the other 3 sanctioning bodies. Their "Super" and "Regular" champions are excluded from the rankings but their "Interim" champion is affixed to the #1 spot. The IBF's protocol is for the top 2 spots in its rankings to remain vacant until two of its other top-ranked contenders face off, at which point the winner takes one of those two places.
In addition to the rankings published by the major sanctioning bodies, the TBRB and The Ring each publish their own independent rankings, not excluding any organizations' champions. The aim of both the TBRB and The Ring is to crown a single champion for each division. Every single one of these lists are assembled by a committee but since the 90s, other parties have experimented with computerized rankings, but these are sometimes regarded as incapable of accounting for all of boxing's quirks and subtleties.[1][2] The most widely known computerized rankings are published by BoxRec and updated daily.[3] The following is a list compiling the latest installment of all the previously mentioned rankings.
Current rankings
| C | Champion |
| S | Super champion |
| R | Regular champion |
| I | Interim champion |
Heavyweight
Cruiserweight
Light heavyweight
Super middleweight
Middleweight
Light middleweight
Welterweight
Light welterweight
Lightweight
Super featherweight
Featherweight
Super bantamweight
Bantamweight
Super flyweight
Flyweight
Light flyweight
Minimumweight
See also
References
- ^ "Boxrec.com's computerized rankings » Boxing News". Boxingnews24.com. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ "FEEDBACK - Transnational Boxing Rankings Board". Tbrb.org. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ "Invaluable site BoxRec's new ratings: the pound-for-pound best of all-time! - Boxing News". Boxingnews24.com. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 2017-08-10.