let me know your thoughts. DIVISIONAL RANKINGS (December 20th 2010) Heavyweight (201lbs+) This content is protected 1. Vitali Klitschko (WBC) 2. David Haye (WBA) 3. Ruslan Chagaev 4. Tomasz Adamek 5. Alexander Povetkin 6. Odlanier Solis 7. Eddie Chambers 8. Tony Thompson 9. Juan Carlos Gomez 10. Chris Arreola 11. Sam Peter 12. Alexander Dimitrenko 13. Dennis Boystov 14. Robert Helenius 15. Jean Marc Mormeck Cruiserweight (200lbs) World Champion: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Dennis Lebedev 5. Troy Ross 6. Steve Herelius 7. Guillermo Jones (WBA) 8. Alexander Frenkel 9. Yoan Pablo Hernandez 10. Giacobbe Fragomeni 11. Ola Alafoabi 12. Danny Green 13. BJ Flores 14. Enad Licina 15. Francisco Palacios Light Heavyweight (175lbs) This content is protected 1. Bernard Hopkins 2. Zsolt Erdei 3. Chad Dawson 4. Tavoris Cloud (IBF) 5. Beibut Shumenov (WBA) 6. Gabriel Campillo 7. Jurgen Braehmer (WBO) 8. Nathan Cleverly 9. Adrian Diaconu 10. Chris Henry 11. Thierry Karl 12. Dmitry Sukhotsky 13. Vyacheslav Uzelkov 14. Otis Griffin 15. Karo Murat Super Middleweight (168lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Glen Johnson 5. Librado Andrade 6. Arthur Abraham 7. Sakio Bika 8. Dimitri Sartison 9. Robert Stieglitz (WBO) 10. Jean Paul Mendy 11. Brian Magee 12. Edison Miranda 13. Eduard Gutknecht 14. Karoly Balzsay 15. Khoren Gevor Middleweight (160lbs) This content is protected 1. Felix Sturm (WBA) 2. Kelly Pavlik 3. Sebastian Sylvester (IBF) 4. Dimitry Pirog (WBO) 5. Daniel Geale 6. Gennady Golovkin 7. Roman Karmazin 8. Sebastian Zbik 9. Hassan N’Dam N'Jikam 10. Matthew Macklin 11. Marco Antonio Rubio 12. Giovanni Lorenzo 13. David Lemiuex 14. Fernando Guerrero 15. David Lopez Light Middleweight (154lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Kermit Cintron 5. Alfredo Angulo 6. Cornelius Bundrage (IBF) 7. Sechew Powell 8. Ryan Rhodes 9. Lukas Konecny 10. Shane Mosley 11. Sergio Mora 12. Yuri Foreman 13. Vanes Martirosyan 14. Erislandy Lara 15. Pawel Wolak WBC held by Manny Pacquiao Welterweight (147lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Joshua Clottey 5. Jan Zaveck (IBF) 6. Vyacheslav Senchenko (WBA) 7. Randall Bailey 8. Selcuk Aydin 9. Ionut Dan Ion 10. Mike Jones 11. Mike Alvarado 12. Saul Alvarez 13. Rafael Jackiwicz 14. Demetrius Hopkins 15. Kell Brook Light Welterweight (140lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Andreas Kotelnik 5. Marcos Maidana 6. Victor Ortiz 7. Juan Urango 8. Lamont Peterson 9. Kaizer Mabuza 10. Zab Judah 11. Lucas Mathysse 12. Paul McCloskey 13. Julio Diaz 14. Ajose Olusegun 15. Erik Morales IBF title vacant Lightweight (135lbs) This content is protected 1. Humberto Soto (WBC) 2. Michael Katsidis 3. Miguel Acosta 4. Miguel Vasquez (IBF) 5. Robert Guerrero 6. Juan Diaz 7. Brandon Rios 8. Urbano Antillon 9. Jorge Linares 10. Leonardo Zappavigna 11. John Murray 12. Paulus Moses 13. Marco Antonio Barerra 14. John Molina 15. Antonio DeMarco Super Featherweight (130lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Takahiro Ao (WBC) 5. Juan Carlos Salgado 6. Jason Litzau 7. Roman Martinez 8. Sergey Gulyakevich 9. Jorge Solis 10. Vitali Tajbert 11. Stephen Foster Jnr 12. Rene Gonzalez 13. Elroy Perez 14. Mario Santiago 15. Terdsak Jandaeng Featherweight (125lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Ello Rojas 5. Daniel Ponce De Leon 6. Hozumi Hasegawa (WBC) 7. Orlando Salido 8. Celestino Caballero 8. Rafael Marquez 9. Cristobal Cruz 10. Jhonny Gonzalez 11. Daud Yordan 12. Miguel Angel Garcia 13. Sofiane Takoucht 14. Bernabe Concepcion 15. Juan Carlos Burgos Super Bantamweight (122lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Wilfredo Vasquez Jnr (WBO) 5. Steve Molitor (IBF) 6. Jeffrey Mathebula 7. Antonio Escalente 8. Guillermo Rigondeaux 9. Rendall Munroe 10. Ricardo Cordoba 11. Akifumi Shimonda 12. Masaaki Serie 13. Olivier Lontchi 14. Kiko Martinez 15. Satoshi Hosono Bantamweight (118lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Nonito Donaire 5. Abner Mares 6. Yhonny Perez 7. Vic Darchinyan 8. Nehmor Cermano 9. Eric Morel 10. Gerry Penalosa 11. Alexander Munoz 12. Malik Bouziane 13. Vusi Malinga 14. Christian Esquivel 15. AJ Banal Super Flyweight (115lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Jose Lopez 5. Raul Martinez 6. Rodrigo Guerrero 7. Juan Alberto Rosas 8. Nobou Nashiro 9. Drian Francisco 10. Tomás Rojas (WBC) 11. Cesar Seda 12. Simphiwe Nongqayi 13. Kohei Kono 14. Daisuke Naito 15. Yota Sato Flyweight (112lbs) This content is protected 1. Luis Concepcion 2. Daiki Kameda (WBA) 3. Koki Kameda 4. Julio Cesar Miranda (WBO) 5. Moruti Mthalane (IBF) 6. Takefumi Sakata 7. Wilbert Ulcab 8. Suriyan Por Chokchai 9. Edgar Sosa 1. Milan Melindo 11. Zolani Tete 12. Brian Viloria 13. Rocky Fuentes 14. Andrea Sarritzu 15. Tomonobu Shimizu Light Flyweight (108lbs) This content is protected 1. Ivan Calderon 2. Luis Alberto Lazarate (IBF) 3. Ulises Solis 4. Gilberto Keb Baas (WBC) 5. Omar Nino Ramero 6. Carlos Tamara 7. Roman Gonzalez 8. Rodel Mayol 9. Ramon Garcia Hireles 10. Ryo Miyazaki 11. Sonny Boy Jaro 12. Juan Carlos Reveco 13. Marlon Tapales 14. Denver Cuello 15. Adrian Hernandez Strawweight (105lbs) World Championship: (Vacant) This content is protected 4. Pornsawan Pompamook 5. Juan Palacios 6. Raul Garcia 7. Michael Landero 8. Florante Condes 9. Kwanthai Sithmorseng (WBA) 9. Ronald Barrera 10. Sammy Gutierrez 11. Yasutaka Kuroki 12. Tsheo Lefele 13. Pigmy Kokietgym 14. Juan Hernandez 15. Luis De La Rosa
former lineal champion until he moved up. undefeated. 11 world title defences. dawsons last performance was poor.
Don't post this on the Ozzy forum, they'd have heart attack with Danny Green at 12th! Haha! Dawson should move up 1 IMO, love seeing Froch above Bute who has beaten no-one of note IMO, and good to see both Brook and cleverly in the top 15. Also, as Bradley is number 1 and Devon is 3 at LWW, will their fight be for the ring title (it's the only 1 I really regard as legit) or will they wait until Khan fights the winner?
Good work, I agreed with most of that. Escalante doesn't fight at 122 any more and hasn't for over a year. Also it''s Eloy Perez not Elroy.
ring magazine has khan at 2. there devon vs alexander fight will not be for the ring title but it will be for mine.
But then you're punishing Dawson for fighting a better quality of opposition, away from home and it was a pretty close fight against Pascal as well. Not really knocking you because I see your point but this is what pisses me off in boxing. You have a guy who was the main man in the division in Chad Dawson. He goes to fight another belt holder in Antonio Tarver but in the process gets his own WBC belt taken off him because he wouldn't fight Glen Johnson straight away. Convincingly beats Tarver twice because of a stupid rematch clause. Then rematches and beats Glen Johnson again. Then he tried to win back his WBC title that was wrongly taken off him by going to Canada to fight Jean Pascal where he loses a close technical decision late on. And because of this he gets dropped below Zsolt Erdei in the rankings because Erdei beat Samson Onyango. Boxing fans shouldn't care about 11 poxy alphabelt title defences. Especially when he's fought nobody of note and a worrying amount of his 'wins' were questionable hometown split decisions. Fighters get punished for trying to fight the best sometimes and then we wonder why they're all scared to travel and fight each other?
Erdei beat Gonzalez who was lineal champion. None of the yanks went to across the atlantic to fight him, or even called him out to the US. he defended the lineal title 11 times and only lost it because he moved up to cruiserweight and won a title. I get your point, maybe Dawson should be ahead but to say Dawson lost to Pascal because it was in Canada is bull****. Also Dawson lost his belt because he wasnt prepared to fight Diaconou in Romania after Diaconous promoter won the purse bids.
I thought sometimes they made exceptions and awarded the belt if number 1 and 3 fought? Seems odd if it wasn't for the ring title as Alexander was rated 2 until his poor performance against Kotelnik. Either way Khan beats the pair of em so it doesn't really matter. But would be nice if they sanctioned it.
I'm not saying he lost to Pascal because it was in Canada. I'm saying that we should be reasonable when a boxer has to travel. Fighting away from home is difficult. And when you're in unfamiliar territory with a crowd against you it's hard to get a decision especially against a fired up opponent. Everything's against you and we need to give credit for boxers that are willing to travel to make the best fights happen. Otherwise they'll all stay at home defending different titles for easy money. Erdei may have beaten Gonzalez 5 or 6 years ago but that whole situation was ****ed up at the time. Unless you want to pretend that Roy Jones never came around and Dariusz Michaelchzewski was undisputed king? Also I'm not criticising Dariusz or favouring US boxers here because that situation was a mess and Roy Jones was as much to blame as anyone in my opinion. Plus who exactly has Erdei beaten since becoming lineal champion? Apart from dodgy decision wins against Garay a couple of times and another close 'win' against Fragomeni at cruiserweight.. he's done pretty much nothing at light heavy.
Unless your from the US, Britain, Germany, Japan or Canada you pretty much travel for every single fight. Theres a 100 other boxers in the rankings that have never had a major fight at home I don't see why Chad Dawson deserves credit for having one fight in Canada and fighting badly especially when he can't draw 1000 fans in the US. All his fights should be on the road.
Ok well put it this way. Before Chad Dawson fought Pascal, would you have had Zsolt Erdei above him in the rankings? I just don't see why he gets dropped in your rankings for going out of his way to fight the best opponents. Presumably if Dawson would have fought Samson Onyango in his only fight this year and won you'd still have him above Erdei? That's just wrong. Apart from a fight he won 6 years ago, I don't see why Erdei deserves to be ranked so highly.
your point are valid i agree with you. will swap them. but your giving Dawson way to much credit for going to Canada.