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Written by Derek Bonnett
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Monday, 03 August 2009 09:58 |
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Hozumi Hasegawa continued to prove why he's number one at bantamweight with a one round blowout of Nestor Rocha.
Click 'read more' to see the complete rankings according to BHO's Derek Bonnett.
Heavyweight: 1.) Wladimir Klitschko UKR 2.) Vitali Klitschko UKR 3.) Alexander Povetkin RUS 4.) Eddie Chambers USA 5.) Ruslan Chagaev UZB 6.) John Ruiz USA 7.) Cristobal Arreola USA 8.) Tony Thompson USA 9.) Oleg Maskaev RUS 10.) Nicolay Valuev RUS
Movement: None.
Cruiserweight: 1.) Tomasz Adamek POL 2.) Steve Cunningham USA 3.) Guillermo Jones PAN 4.) Krzysztof Wlodarczyk POL 5.) Giacobbe Fragomeni ITA 6.) Firat Arslan FRA 7.) Marco Huck GER 8.) Rudolf Kraj GER 9.) Matt Godfrey USA 10.) Troy Ross CAN
Movement: USS keeps his spot at number two with a victory over Wayne Braithewaite.
Light Heavyweight: 1.) Chad Dawson USA 2.) Bernard Hopkins USA 3.) Glencoffe Johnson JAM 4.) Antonio Tarver USA 5.) Jean Pascal HAI 6.) Zsolt Erdie HUN 7.) Adrian Diacanu ROM 8.) Clinton Woods UK 9.) Tavoris Cloud USA 10.) Yusaf Mack USA
Movement: None.
Super Middleweight: 1.) Lucian Bute ROM 2.) Mikkel Kessler DEN 3.) Carl Froch UK 4.) Librado Andrade MEX 5.) Sakio Bika CA 6.) Jermain Taylor USA 7.) Karoly Balzay HUN 8.) Andre Ward USA 9.) Andre Dirrell USA 10.) Allan Green USA
Movement: None. Get ready for some shake-ups this fall!
Middleweight: 1.) Kelly Pavlik USA 2.) Arthur Abraham ARM 3.) Felix Sturm GER 4.) Anthony Mundine AUS 5.) Khoren Gevor ARM 6.) Sebastian Sylvester GER 7.) Marco Antonio Rubio MEX 8.) Enrique Ornelas MEX 9.) Giovanni Lorenzo DR 10.) Daniel Geale AUS
Movement: Khoren Gevor jumps from eighth to fifth after dropping a controversial decision to Felix Sturm.
Junior Middleweight: 1.) Sergiy Dzindziruk UKR 2.) Paul Williams USA 3.) Sergio Mora USA 4.) James Kirkland USA 5.) Sergio Gabriel Martinez ARG 6.) Yuri Foreman USA 7.) Cory Spinks USA 8.) Kermit Cintron PR 9.) Vanes Martirosyan ARM 10.) Deandre Latimore USA
Movement: Vernon Forrest is removed due to his untimely death. Daniel Santos is dropped for one year of inactivity. Those ranked four through ten all jump one place. Martirosyan enters at ninth after a string of impressive performances. Latimore re-enters at ten.
Welterweight: 1.) Shane Mosley USA 2.) Miguel Cotto PR 3.) Joshua Clottey GHA 4.) Andre Berto USA 5.) Luis Collazo USA 6.) Jesus Soto Karass MEX 7.) Zab Judah USA 8.) Isaac Hlatshwayo SA 9.) Delvin Rodriguez DR 10.) Selcuk Aydin TUR
Movement: Hlatshwayo enters at eight with a split decision over Delvin Rodriguez. Selcuk Aydin makes his debut into the top ten with back to back wins over Said Ouali and Jackson Osei Bonsu.
Junior Welterweight: 1.) Manny Pacquiao PHI 2.) Timothy Bradley USA 3.) Ricky Hatton UK 4.) Kendall Holt USA 5.) Devon Alexander USA 6.) Amir Khan UK 7.) Juan Urango COL 8.) Marcos Rene Maidana ARG 9.) Mike Alvarado USA 10.) Lamont Peterson USA
Movement: Bradley moves to third after his cuts stoppage of Nate Campbell. Ricky Hatton's career remains uncertain after his crushing defeat and heart murmur diagnosis. Alexander debuts at fifth with a big win over Junior Witter. Amir Khan debuts at sixth with a big win over Andreas Kotelnik. Peterson enters at tenth.
Lightweight: 1.) Juan Manuel Marquez MEX 2.) Joan Guzman DR 3.) Juan Diaz USA 4.) Ali Funeka SA 5.) Edwin Valero VEN 6.) Rolando Reyes USA 7.) Antonio Demarco MEX 8.) Joel Casamayor CUB 9.) Miguel Acosta VEN 10.) Anthony Peterson USA
Movement: Anthony Peterson is put on notice for nearing one year's inactivity and drops to tenth. He will be dropped if his August 15 bout does not come off. Acosta enters at ninth after a big win over Urbano Antillon.
Junior Lightweight: 1.) Humberto Soto MEX 2.)Jorge Linares VEN 3.) Robert Guerrero USA 4.) Malcolm Klassen SA 5.) Mzonke Fana SA 6.) Roman Martinez PR 7.) Cassius Baloyi SA 8.) Nicky Cook UK 9.) Kevin Mitchell UK 10.) Zolani Marali SA
Moment: Alex Arthur is competing at lightweight now and is dropped. Marali enters at tenth.
Featherweight: 1.) Chris John IND 2.) Rocky Juarez USA 3.) Steve Luevano USA 4.) Cristobal Cruz MEX 5.) Jorge Solis MEX 6.) Yuriokis Gamboa CUB 7.) Elio Rojas DR 8.) Mario Santiago PR 9.) Fernando Beltran Jr. MEX 10.) Orlando Salido MEX
Movement: Cristobal Cruz moves from fifth to fourth after defeating Jorge Solis. Solis drops from second to fifth. Elio Rojas moves from eighth to seventh after outpointing Takahiro Aoh for the WBC title.
Junior Featherweight:
1.) Juan Manuel Lopez PR 2.) Celestino Caballero PAN 3.) Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym THA 4.) Bernard Dunne IRE 5.) Ricardo Cordoba PAN 6.) Daniel Ponce De Leon MEX 7.) Toshiaki Nishioka JAP 8.) Jeffery Mathebula SA 9.) Steve Molitor CAN 10.) Rendall Munroe UK
Movement: None.
Bantamweight: 1.) Hozumi Hasegawa JAP 2.) Anselmo Moreno PAN 3.) Fernando Montiel MEX 4.) Joseph Agbeko GHA 5.) Wladimir Sidorenko UKR 6.) Abner Mares MEX 7.) Yonnhy Perez COL 8.) Vic Darchinyan ARM 9.) William Gonzalez NIC 10.) Nehomar Cermeno VEN
Movement: Hasegawa continued to prove why he's number one with a one round blowout of Nestor Rocha. Moreno holds down the number two spot with a decision over Mahyar Monshipour. Agbeko switches places with Sidorenko after successfully defending his title against Vic Darchinyan. Darchinyan enters at eighth.
Junior Bantamweight: 1.) Z Gorres PHI 2.) Jorge Arce MEX 3.) Nobou Nashiro JAP 4.) Hugo Cazares MEX 5.) Roberto Vasquez PAN 6.) Jose Lopez PR 7.) Evans Mbamba SA 8.) Daiki Kameda JAP 9.) Zolile Mbityi SA 10.) Alexander Munoz VEN
Movement: Dimitri Kirilov is dropped for one year of inactivity. Vic Darchinyan exits to compete at bantamweight. Mbityi climbs aboard at number nine to fill the void. Munoz re-enters after being removed for inactivity, but his recent quality of opposition is not high enough to place him back among the elites.
Flyweight: 1.) Nonito Donaire PHI 2.) Omar Andres Narvaez ARG 3.) Denkaosan Kaovichit THAI 4.) Daisuke Naito JAP 5.) Takefumi Sakata JAP 6.) Pongsaklek Wonjongkam THAI 7.) Julio Cesar Miranda MEX 8.) Koki Kameda JAP 9.) Rayonta Whitfield USA 10.) Raul Martinez USA
Movement: Miranda moves up one place to number seven after a one round KO of Eric Ortiz.
Junior Flyweight: 1.) Ivan Calderon PR 2.) Edgar Sosa MEX 3.) Brian Viloria USA 4.) Ulises Solis MEX 5.) Giovanni Segura MEX 6.) Cesar Canchila COL 7.) Omar Nino Romero MEX 8.) Rodel Mayol PHI 9.) Sony Boy Jaro PHI 10.) Brahim Asloum FRA
Movement: Juanito Rubillar exits after being stopped by Segura. Asloum re-enters at ten after being dropped for a stint of inactivity.
Strawweight: 1.) Roman Gonzalez NIC 2.) Raul Garcia MEX 3.) Oleydong Sithsamerchai THAI 4.) Nkosinathi Joyi SA 5.) Milan Melindo PHI 6.) Donnie Nietes PHI 7.) Juan Palacios NIC 8.) Florante Condes PHI 9.) Manuel Vargas MEX 10.) Francisco Rosas MEX
Movement: Gonzalez remained champion with an impressive decision over Katsunari Takayama.
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