Ukrainian southpaw Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs), undisputed heavyweight king of the World Boxing Affiliation (WBA, tremendous champion), World Boxing Council (WBC), Worldwide Boxing Group (IBO) and World Boxing Group (WBO) held agency for the fifth consecutive time on the prime of the Pound for Pound month-to-month rating ready by ESPN, the specialised journal The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings, an inventory that features these thought of by the stated media because the choose ten greatest fighters of the second.
Usyk, 37, a local of Sinferopol, capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine, reached the privileged place final Could when he defeated Englishman Tyson Fury on Could 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with 114-113, 115-112 and 113-114 scorecards, and whom he’ll face once more in a rematch on December 21 in the identical situation, seat of the nice fights of nowadays, a spot that till not too long ago was occupied by the “Metropolis of Playing”, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Usyk, of a stunning novice marketing campaign (he was Olympic, World and a couple of instances European champion), no matter what would possibly occur negatively along with his profession sooner or later, has already earned a spot in historical past as the very best Ukrainian boxer of all time and likewise for being the primary to have been topped within the 4 fundamental entities – WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO – which management boxing worldwide, in two totally different classes, cruiserweight and full weight.
Previous to the aforementioned conflict with Fury final Could, the undefeated Usyk had received the WBA, IBF and WBO belts towards Britain’s Anthony Joshua in September 2021 and defeated him once more within the rematch. At the moment the all-weight belt within the common model of the dean of the world boxing our bodies, the WBA, is held by the Syrian-German Mahmoud Charr, a possible future opponent of Usyk and who has a file of 34-4-0, 20 knockouts.
One other doable contender for Usyk is Britain’s Daniel Dubois, a tricky knockout who has knocked out 21 of 24 opponents earlier than the restrict, most not too long ago in September of this yr, a 5-round upset victory over countryman Anthony Joshua that took him to the IBF throne vacated by Usyk. Dubois’ two defeats have additionally been by KO, and he received their remaining bout on factors. At 196 centimeters of pure muscle, Dubois is in contrast, retaining the space, to the legendary Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, for his explosive and devastating punch.
THE OTHER 9
We most likely might go on and on speaking about different aspects of Usyk’s sensible profession between the ropes. Nevertheless, in the intervening time, we are going to depart it at this level to dedicate just a few extra traces to the remaining 9 members of the ten greatest boxers of nowadays, which is the primary matter of this text.
In that sense, let’s full the lowered and elite lot that based on ESPN’s standards ( solely two of them are representatives of the wrongly referred to as weaker intercourse, Claudia Trejo and Crystina Poncher):
2) Terence Crawford (40-0-0, 31 KO), WBA tremendous welterweight champion; 3) Naoya Inoue (28-0-0-0,25 KO), absolute tremendous bantamweight champion; 4) Arthur Beterbiev (21-0-0, 20 KO), who moved up two steps due to his controversial majority win over Dmitry Bivol this month on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh, for the 4 entities belts, within the gentle heavyweight division;
5) Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (60-2-2), sole sovereign in tremendous middleweight; 6) Dmitry Bivol (23-1-0, 12 KO), who dropped 2 locations;
7) Jessie “Bam” Rodriguez (20-0,13 KO), WBC tremendous flyweight champion; 8) Gervonta Davis (30-0-0,28 KO), WBA light-weight titleholder;
9) Shakur Stevenson (22-0-0, 10 KO), WBC light-weight champion and in tenth place Junto Nakatani (29-0-22 KO), former tremendous flyweight champion and present WBC bantamweight champion, new member of the group in what’s a recognition because of his victory by TKO6 towards Tasana Salapat of Thailand on the 14th, in his third protection.
The Ring ranks them within the following order for the present month: Usyk, Inoue, Crawford, “Canelo” Alvarez, Beterbiev, Bivol, Gervonta Davis, Erroll Spencer Jr., “Bam” Rodriguez and Nakatani.
As for the Transnational Boxing Rankings, there aren’t any main variations in comparison with the opposite two, apart from the inclusion of the Honduran-American Teofimo Lopez, proprietor of the WBO tremendous light-weight title and the previous WBC tremendous flyweight champion and present WBC flyweight champion,
Japan’s Kenshiro Teraji, in positions 9 and 10, preceded by Usyk, Inoue, Crawford, Beterbiev, Bivol, “Bam” Rodriguez, “Canelo” and Gervonta Davis.
