4 March 2024- TBRB Rankings: Only one division saw changes this week, Featherweight, but there were several and they were based on two very good fights. The big news is Luis Alberto Lopez: formerly #2, he is now #1 in the division. Since losing to Ruben Villa (now #9) back in 2019, he has been on a tear, winning 13 fights in a row including a big one over Josh Warrington, then ranked #7. He just stopped another contender in #6-ranked Reiya Abe, who drops out of the top ten.
We expect to see him and #2-ranked Leigh Wood go round and round to crown the first featherweight king since Manny Pacquiao abdicated in March 2005.
Raymond Ford looked like a burgeoning phenomenon when he defeated Otabek Kholmatov –stopping the undefeated Uzbek in 12 rounds in a fight good enough to usher in new fans of the sweet science. Ford, who was ranked #7, is now ranked #6 and missed #5 by only one vote. And that’s not all: the board saw how formidable Kholmatov was and, despite his loss, voted him into the #10 ranking made available by Abe’s exit.
P4P
Name | Nationality | Record | Division | |
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1 | Terence Crawford * | USA | 40-0-0 (31) | Welterweight |
2 | Naoya Inoue * | JPN | 26-0-0 (23) | Jr. Featherweight |
3 | Oleksandr Usyk * | UKR | 21-0-0 (14) | Heavyweight |
4 | Dmitry Bivol | RUS | 21-0-0 (11) | Light Heavyweight |
5 | Saul Alvarez * | MEX | 60-2-2 (39) | Super Middleweight |
6 | Devin Haney | USA | 31-0-0 (15) | Jr. Welterweight |
7 | Artur Beterbiev * | CAN | 19-0-0 (19) | Light Heavyweight |
8 | Teofimo Lopez * | USA | 20-1-0 (13) | Jr. Welterweight |
9 | Kenshiro Teraji * | JPN | 23-1-0 (14) | Jr. Flyweight |
10 | Junto Nakatani | JPN | 27-0-0 (20) | Bantamweight |
HEAVYWEIGHT (+200LBS/+91KG)
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