Your heavyweight top ten as of 4/27/25

1. Usyk
2. Dubois
3. Kabayel
4. Parker
5. Joshua
6. Chisora
7. Zhang
8. Hrgovic
9. Bakole
10. Joyce

 

Chisora and Hrgovic above aj

 

CHAMPION: Usyk

1. Dubois
2. Parker
3. Kabayel
4. Fury (don't believe in his retirement)
5. Hrgovic
6. AJ
7. Bakole
8. Zhang
9. Ajagba
10 Chisora

 

Usyk
Dubois
Parker
Kabayel
AJ
Hrgovic
Bakole
Zhang
Ajagba
Chisora

 

Really weird period, after usyk, kabayel, parker and dubois it is really unclear to me who the next six are and in what order. There is a small pool of candidates as mentioned above but hard to see them attack the top dogs in the near future and newbies like itauma might soon (few years) take their positions with a better prospect of making it to the top.

I think the most interesting question is who might be the next to break into the circle of candidates (kabayel, dubois, parker). Zhang is on his way out and other than him, Hrgovic seemed to have the best chances but somehow he always fails to impress...

But I won't give up on Bakole. When prepared he has a chance to beat most of them

 

1. Usyk.
2. Dubois.
3. Parker.
4. Kabayel.
5. Fury.
6. Zhang.
7. Joshua.
8. Hrgovic.
9. Chisora.
10. Bakole.

 

1 Kabayel
2 Usyk
3 Dubois
4 Parker
5 Hrgovic
6 Frank Sanchez
7 Bakole
8 Jared Anderson
9 Joshua
10 Zhang

Notes

Fury is retired otherwise he'd be like 6th or 7th.

I'd rank Hrgovic over Parker if Parker were not a belt holder I decided to make the top 4 the champions.

Going off common opponents I believe these should be the 10. With Hunter, Gassiev, Okolie, Chisora and an undefeated prospect of your choice filling out the top 15.

 

Usyk
Dubois
Parker
Kabayel
Zhang
Joshua
Hrgovic
Bakole
Itauma
Huni

 

1. Usyk
2. Kabayel
3. Parker
4. Dubois
5. AJ
6. Hrgovic
7. Ajagba (I think he beats Bakole next week)
8. Bakole
9. Huni (think he will do best out of the younger crop - i.e. Itauma, Torrez, Anderson)
10. Chisora

These lists are always weird tho. Dubois ran through AJ so goes ahead of him, and I think Dubois loses to Parker and Kabayel, but AJ beat Parker and unlike most people on here I think he'd still beat him now, and AJ-Kabayel is 50/50.

Still not sold on Bakole but he's so huge he could probably beat some more skilled fighters just by savaging it out. Huni and that Teremoana guy are the best looking prospects right now.

 

1. Usyk.
2. Dubois.
3. Parker.
4. Kabayel.
5. Fury.
6. Joshua.
7. Hrgovic.
8. Zhang.
9. Bakole.
10. Ajagba

 

1 Usyk
2 Kabayel
3 Dubois
4 Parker
5 Hrgovic
6 Zhang
7 Chisora
8 Joshua
9 Bakole
10 Miller

I don't think Fury comes back for anyone other than a huge payday, so that's essentially just Joshua, Usyk III, or a gimmick fight like Ngannou II, so he's effectively retired

Kabayel is seriously underrated and I only make Usyk a slight favourite against him. Kabayel beats everyone else.

It goes to show how lacking in depth the division is when Hrgovic is top 5ish and Chisora is top 10.

 

1. Usyk
2. Fury
3. Parker
4. Dubois
5. Kabayel
6. Zhang
7. Hrgovic
8. AJ
9. Bakole
10. Chisora

If Fury's really retired, then I'd prolly slot Wardley or Ajagba in at number ten.

 

At the moment:

1. Usyk
2. Dubois
3. Fury
4. Parker
5. Kabayel
6. Joshua
7. Hrgovic
8. Wardley
9. Miller
10. Sanchez

 

Usyk
Dubois
Parker
AJ
Kabayel
Hrgovic
Chisora
Bakole
Zhang
Ituama