The Transnational Boxing Rankings:Bermane Stiverne cracks the heavyweight ten

[McGrain]

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Weekly Rankings
01 May 2013

Heavyweight
Champion: Vacant
1. Wladimir Klitschko
2. Vitali Klitschko
3. David Haye
4. Alexander Povetkin
5. Tomasz Adamek
6. Kubrat Pulev
7. Tyson Fury
8. Eddie Chambers
9. Tony Thompson
10. Bermane Stiverne

Cruiserweight
Champion: Vacant
1. Marco Huck
2. Yoan Pablo Hernandez
3. Kryzstof Wlodarczyk
4. Ola Afolabi
5. Denis Lebedev
6. Antonio Tarver
7. Troy Ross
8. Lateef Kayode
9. Francisco Palacios
10. Firat Arslan

Light Heavyweight
Champion Chad Dawson
1. Bernard Hopkins
2. Jean Pascal
3. Sergey Kovalev
4. Nathan Cleverly
5. Tavoris Cloud
6. Beibut Shumenov
7. Gabriel Campillo
8. Karo Murat
9. Denis Grachev
10. Issac Chilemba

Super Middleweight
Champion Andre Ward
1. Carl Froch
2. Mikkel Kessler
3. Lucian Bute
4. Robert Stieglitz
5. Arthur Abraham
6. Thomas Oosthuizen
7. Sakio Bika
8. George Groves
9. Edwin Rodriguez
10. Adonis Stevenson

Middleweight
Champion Sergio Martinez
1. Daniel Geale
2. Gennady Golovkin
3. Peter Quillin
4. Martin Murray
5. Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.
6. Matthew Macklin
7. Felix Sturm
8. Sam Soliman
9. Dmitry Pirog
10. Marco Antonio Rubio

Junior Middleweight
1. Saul Alvarez
2. Floyd Mayweather
3. Austin Trout
4. Erislandy Lara
5. Miguel Cotto
6. Carlos Molina
7. Vanes Martirosyan
8. Ishe Smith
9. Gabriel Rosado
10.Zaurbeck Baysangurov

Welterweight
1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Juan Manuel Marquez
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Timothy Bradley
5. Robert Guerrero
6. Devon Alexander
7. Josesito Lopez
8. Victor Ortiz
9. Paulie Malignaggi
10. Keith Thurman

[McGrain]

Junior Welterweight
1. Danny Garcia
2. Lucas Matthysse
3. Lamont Peterson
4. Amir Khan
5. Mike Alvarado
6. Brandon Rios
7. Zab Judah
8. Juan Manuel Marquez
9. Olusegun Ajose
10. Khabib Allakhverdiev

Lightweight
1. Adrien Broner
2. Ricky Burns
3. Miguel Vazquez
4. Richard Abril
5. Antonio DeMarco
6. Paulus Moses
7. Raymundo Beltran
8. Hank Lundy
9. Sharif Bogere
10. Gavin Rees

Junior Lightweight
1. Takashi Uchiyama
2. Argenis Mendez
3. Juan Carlos Burgos
4. Roman Martinez
5. Miguel Beltran, Jr.
6. Yuriorkis Gamboa
7. Juan Carlos Salgado
8. Takahiro Ao
9. Takashi Miura
10. Diego Magdaleno

Featherweight
Champion: Vacant
1. Mikey Garcia
2. Chris John
3. Daniel Ponce De Leon
4. Jhonny Gonzalez
5. Orlando Salido
6. Juan Manuel Lopez
7. Evgeny Gradovich
8. Javier Fortuna
9. Billy Dib
10. Simpiwe Vetyeka

Junior Featherweight
Champion Guillermo Rigondeuax
1. Nonito Donaire
2. Abner Mares
3. Victor Terrazas
4. Jeffrey Mathebula
5. Cristian Mijares
6. Carl Frampton
7. Vic Darchinyan
8. Scott Quigg
9. Jonathan Romero
10. Fernando Montiel


Bantamweight
1. Shinsuke Yamanaka
2. Anselmo Moreno
3. Leo Santa Cruz
4. Koki Kameda
5. Hugo Ruiz
6. Joseph Agbeko
7. Jamie McDonnell
8. Stephane Jamoye
9. Julio Ceja
10. Malcolm Tunacao

Junior Bantamweight
Champion: Vacant
1. Omar Narvaez
2. Yota Sato
3. Kohei Kono
4. Tepparith Singwancha
5. Juan Carlos Sanchez
6. Suriyan Sor Rungvisai
7. Juan Alberto Rosas
8. Arthur Villanueva *
9. Daniel Rosas
10. Carlos Cuadras

Flyweight
Champion: Akira Yaegashi
1. Juan Francisco Estrada
2. Moruti Mthlane
3. Brian Viloria
4. Edgar Sosa
5. Toshiyuki Igarashi
6. Hernan Marquez
7. Juan Carlos Reveco
8. Milan Melindo
9. Luis Concepcion
10. Rocky Fuentes

Junior Flyweight
Champion: Vacant
1. Roman Gonzalez
2. Adrian Hernandez
3. Ulises Solis
4. Donnie Nietes
5. Johnriel Casimero
6. Kazuto Ioka
7. Pedro Guevara
8. Denver Cuello
9. Ramon Garcia
10. Ryoichi Taguchi

Strawweight
1. Katsunari Takayama
2. Moises Fuentes
3. Mario Rodriguez
4. Nkosinathi Joyi
5. Raul Garcia
6. Ryo Miyazaki
7. Pornsawan Porpramook
8. Wanheng Menayothin
9. Juan Palacios
10.Hekkie Budler

[McGrain]

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The idea here is that these are your rankings gents. The above link will tell you a little more about the TBRB, but briefly it's been felt that with The Ring Magazine rankings becoming questionable and with the racketeers still running the alphabet soup, the internet could do better. This is the result and it's been adopted by several websites as offical rankings, including ESB.

They are currently updated monthly on the homepage, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], on ESB's frontpage and on the various other websites who we support/who support us.

But the bottom line is the fans. That's you lot. So speak up. What you like, what you don't, we're interested in what you and the rest of boxing's put upon fanbase has to say.

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[KERRIGAN]

Don't see how one can rank the inactive Dirrell and not rank Angulo.

[McGrain]

Inactivity and how it should impact a boxer is a sticky one at the moment; check out Mayweather's dual ranking for another thorny issue, he hasn't fought in some time as a welterweight. It's in hand. The good news is that Angulo boxes this weekend and becomes subject to next month's ranking dicussion.

Note, though, that Dirrell has fought within a year - just - and Angulo has not.

[DrMo]

How often do you guys get together & update them?

[Drew101]

At 122...

Why would Mijares be ranked at the weight when his recent outings have been conducted at featherweight. And where is Poonsawat in that division's top 10..?

[McGrain]

Originally Posted by Drew101

At 122...

Why would Mijares be ranked at the weight when his recent outings have been conducted at featherweight. And where is Poonsawat in that division's top 10..?

Fighters are removed from divisional rankings upon indicating publicly that they won't be returning to that division (which Mijares hasn't done) or until they fall foul of the inactivity rules (taken on a case by case basis). Because Mijares fought there within the year he hasn't even been flagged yet.

But that's the kind of thing a forum like this can help us keep right on. Everyone involved is a volunteer and most of these guys are working stiff, so any and all support is welcome.


Poonsawat isn't ranked due mainly to his horrible level of comp since Lee took his title. I'd invite you to make a case, but he'll obviously be definied by what happens this weekend.

Originally Posted by DrMo

How often do you guys get together & update them?

Currently monthly; it may go weekly depending.

[Joe.Boxer]

Have you awarded your championship belts to the recognized champions yet, and was there an award ceremony?

[McGrain]

No belts Joe. As far as i'm aware the fighters that become champion don't even get any kind of message telling them At first I thought that underwhelming, but now I kind of like it. These rankings aren't about the fighters, they're about the fans.

When you look at Ring rankings what do you think? Especially when there's a striking new entry or new #2? You think, "is this a Golden Boy fighter?" if you're anything like me. Rightly or wrongly, fair or unfair. This month they seem to have reallly lost it with that p4p list.

Even a casual ESB member knows that the Alphabet crew are a joke. So where does a fan go on the internet if they can't figure out who is #2, or #5 or #1 or whatever in each division? We want them to come to our site, or one of the sites that support our rankings.

[KERRIGAN]

Originally Posted by McGrain

Inactivity and how it should impact a boxer is a sticky one at the moment; check out Mayweather's dual ranking for another thorny issue, he hasn't fought in some time as a welterweight. It's in hand. The good news is that Angulo boxes this weekend and becomes subject to next month's ranking dicussion.

Note, though, that Dirrell has fought within a year - just - and Angulo has not.

What about the Tiger fellow that Angulo KO'd?

[KERRIGAN]

This is a good initiative, especially now that The Ring is being corrupted by Golden Boy.

BTW. How come in some of the divisions you have a Champion listed, and then the next 10, and in others, just the Top 10?

[McGrain]

13 months ago. Dude was all but eliminated by Kirkland anyway.

Champions are crowned only where a defined lineage could be identified. Divisions where this was not the case can only see a champion crowned when the #1 meets the #2.

So for example, if Trout and Mayweather met at 154lbs., a new lineage is established. If Mayweather then retires, the #1 and #2 need to meet to re-establish.

[KERRIGAN]

Originally Posted by McGrain

13 months ago. Dude was all but eliminated by Kirkland anyway.

Angulo fought in November of 2012.

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[Dece Bal]

Good stuff, McG. How are the rankings made?