5 November 2019 : There simply aren’t many middleweight champions in history who can exceed Alvarez’s latest accomplishment. Harry Greb, a true beserker who spent years before his middleweight reign picking on all-time great light heavyweights and heavyweights comes to mind. Mickey Walker was a welterweight champion who went on to take the middleweight crown before invading the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Dick Tiger and Bernard Hopkins were among the few middleweight champions who later became light heavyweight champions.
If Canelo wants to walk with giants, he should face Division King Artur Beterbiev. Beat him, become a double champion, and anyone who denies his all-time greatness will get laughed out of the room. Of course, the expectation is that Canelo will prove he is clean by submitting to the highest VADA standard of testing. Without that, his accomplishments will remain suspect. As it is now, Canelo is #3, Kovalev #4 and Anthony Yarde is bumped out.
Brian Castano moves from #6 to #5 at Jr. Middleweight after defeating tough Wale Omotoso in five rounds. Some, including this writer, believe that Erislandy Lara should remain over him for now, but were outnumbered.
Ryan Garcia makes his debut in the Lightweight rankings at #10 after knocking out Romero Duno in one round. There was a late rally for Javier Fortuna to enter instead, but it was too late to be convincing. Lee Selby is bumped out.
At Jr. Bantamweight, Francisco Rodriguez Jr. moves up from #10 to more secure ground at #9. He defeated William Riera and has remained undefeated ever since losing a split decision to Moises Fuentes four years ago. ***
P4P:
Rank
Name
Nationality
Record
Division
1
Saul Alvarez *
MEX
53-1-2 (36)
Middleweight/Lt Hw
2
Vasiliy Lomachenko
UKR
14-1-0 (10)
Lightweight
3
Terence Crawford
USA
35-0-0 (26)
Welterweight
4
Naoya Inoue
JPN
18-0-0 (16)
Bantamweight
5
Oleksandr Usyk
UKR
16-0-0 (12)
Heavyweight
6
Gennady Golovkin
KAZ
38-1-1 (34)
Middleweight
7
Juan Francisco Estrada *
MEX
40-3-0 (27)
Jr. Bantamweight
8
Errol Spence Jr.
USA
25-0-0 (21)
Welterweight
9
Manny Pacquiao
PHI
62-7-2 (39)
Welterweight
10
Josh Taylor
SCO
16-0-0 (12)
Jr. Welterweight
* Champions as recognised by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board .
Heavyweight (+200lbs/+91kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Andy Ruiz Jr.
33-1-0 (22)
USA
1
2
Tyson Fury
29-0-1 (20)
ENG
2
3
Deontay Wilder
41-0-1 (40)
USA
3
4
Anthony Joshua
22-1-0 (21)
ENG
4
5
Dillian Whyte
26-1-0 (18)
ENG
5
6
Luis Ortiz
31-1-0 (26)
CUB
6
7
Alexander Povetkin
35-2-0 (24)
RUS
7
8
Kubrat Pulev
27-1-0 (14)
BUL
8
9
Joseph Parker
26-2-0 (20)
NZ
9
10
Adam Kownacki
20-0-0 (15)
POL
10
Cruiserweight (200lbs/91kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
—
—
—
1
Mairis Briedis
26-1-0 (19)
LVA
1
2
Yunier Dorticos
24-1-0 (22)
CUB
2
3
Krzysztof Glowacki
31-2-0 (19)
POL
3
4
Kevin Lerena
24-1-0 (11)
RSA
4
5
Ilunga Makabu
26-2-0 (24)
COD
5
6
Andrew Tabiti
17-1-0 (13)
USA
6
7
Michal Cieslak
19-0-0 (13)
POL
7
8
Lawrence Okolie
14-0-0 (11)
ENG
8
9
Noel Mikaelian
23-2-0 (10)
ARM
9
10
Yves Ngabu
20-1-0 (14)
BEL
10
Light Heavyweight (175lbs/79kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
Artur Beterbiev
15-0-0 (15)
RUS
***
1
Dmitry Bivol
17-0-0 (11)
RUS
1
2
Oleksandr Gvozdyk
17-1-0 (14)
UKR
2
3
Saul Alvarez
53-1-2 (36)
MEX
—
4
Sergey Kovalev
34-4-1 (29)
RUS
3
5
Eleider Alvarez
24-1-0 (12)
COL
4
6
Jean Pascal
34-6-1 (20)
CAN
5
7
Marcus Browne
23-1-0 (16)
USA
6
8
Badou Jack
22-2-3 (13)
SWE
7
9
Jesse Hart
26-2-0 (21)
USA
8
10
Joe Smith Jr.
24-3-0 (20)
USA
9
Super Middleweight (168lbs/76.2kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Callum Smith
26-0-0 (19)
ENG
1
2
David Benavidez
22-0-0 (19)
USA
2
3
Gilberto Ramirez
40-0-0 (26)
MEX
3
4
Chris Eubank Jr.
28-2-0 (21)
ENG
4
5
Caleb Plant
19-0-0 (11)
USA
5
6
Saul Alvarez
53-1-2 (36)
MEX
6
7
Jose Uzcategui
28-3-0 (23)
VEN
7
8
John Ryder
28-4-0 (16)
ENG
8
9
Anthony Dirrell
33-2-1 (24)
USA
9
10
Avni Yildirim
21-2-0 (12)
TUR
10
Middleweight (160lbs/72.5kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
Saul Alvarez
53-1-2 (36)
MEX
***
1
Gennady Golovkin
40-1-1 (35)
KAZ
1
2
Daniel Jacobs
35-3-0 (29)
USA
2
3
Sergiy Derevyanchenko
13-2-0 (10)
UKR
3
4
Demetrius Andrade
28-0-0 (17)
USA
4
5
Jermall Charlo
29-0-0 (21)
USA
5
6
Ryota Murata
15-2-0 (12)
JPN
6
7
Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam
37-4-0 (21)
FRA
7
8
Rob Brant
25-2-0 (17)
USA
8
9
Kamil Szeremeta
21-0-0 (5)
POL
9
10
Willie Monroe Jr.
24-3-0 (6)
USA
10
Junior Middleweight (154lbs/70kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Julian Williams
27-1-1 (16)
USA
1
2
Jarrett Hurd
23-1-0 (16)
USA
2
3
Tony Harrison
28-2-0 (21)
USA
3
4
Jermell Charlo
31-1-0 (15)
USA
4
5
Brian Castano
16-0-1 (12)
ARG
6
6
Erislandy Lara
26-3-3 (15)
CUB
5
7
Jaime Munguia
34-0-0 (27)
MEX
7
8
Michel Soro
34-2-1- (23)
FRA
8
9
Kell Brook
40-2-0 (26)
ENG
9
10
Erickson Lubin
22-1-0 (16)
USA
10
Welterweight (147lbs/66.7kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
Open
–
–
–
1
Errol Spence Jr.
26-0-0 (21)
USA
1
2
Manny Pacquiao
62-7-2 (39)
PHI
2
3
Terence Crawford
35-0-0 (26)
USA
3
4
Shawn Porter
30-3-1 (17)
USA
4
5
Keith Thurman
29-1-0 (22)
USA
5
6
Yordenis Ugas
24-4-0 (11)
CUB
6
7
Danny Garcia
35-2-0 (21)
USA
7
8
Kudratillo Abdukakhorov
17-0-0 (9)
UZB
8
9
Sergey Lipinets
16-1-0 (11)
KAZ
9
10
Egidijus Kavaliauskas
21-0-1 (17)
LTU
10
Junior Welterweight (140lbs/63.5kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
Mikey Garcia
39-1-0 (30)
USA
***
1
Josh Taylor
16-0-0 (12)
SCO
1
2
Regis Prograis
24-1-0 (20)
USA
2
3
Jose Carlos Ramirez
25-0-0 (17)
USA
3
4
Viktor Postol
31-2-0 (12)
UKR
4
5
Kiryl Relikh
23-3-0 (19)
BLR
5
6
Maurice Hooker
26-1-3 (17)
USA
6
7
Ivan Baranchyk
20-1-0 (13)
RUS
7
8
Pablo Cesar Cano
32-7-1 (22)
MEX
8
9
Jose Zepeda
31-2-0 (25)
USA
9
10
Robert Easter Jr.
22-1-1 (14)
USA
10
Lightweight (135lbs/61.2kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Vasiliy Lomachenko
14-1-0 (10)
UKR
1
2
Mikey Garcia
39-1-0 (30)
USA
2
3
Richard Commey
29-2-0 (26)
GHA
3
4
Rances Barthelemy
27-1-1 (14)
CUB
4
5
Devin Haney
23-0-0 (15)
USA
5
6
Teofimo Lopez
14-0-0 (11)
USA
6
7
Luke Campbell
20-3-0 (16)
ENG
7
8
Yvan Mendy
43-5-1 (21)
FRA
8
9
Emmanuel Tagoe
31-1-0 (15)
GHA
9
10
Ryan Garcia
19-0-0 (16)
USA
—
Junior Lightweight (130lbs/59kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Miguel Berchelt
37-1-0 (33)
MEX
1
2
Gervonta Davis
22-0-0 (21)
USA
2
3
Tevin Farmer
30-4-1 (6)
USA
3
4
Jamel Herring
26-2-0 (10)
USA
4
5
Andrew Cancio
21-4-2 (16)
USA
5
6
Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov
15-0-0 (12)
RUS
6
7
Masayuki Ito
26-2-1 (14)
JPN
7
8
Joseph Diaz Jr.
30-1-0 (15)
USA
8
9
Miguel Roman
62-13-0 (47)
MEX
9
10
Roger Gutierrez
22-3-1 (19)
VEN
10
Featherweight (126lbs/57.1kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Leo Santa Cruz
36-1-1 (19)
USA
1
2
Josh Warrington
30-0-0 (7)
ENG
2
3
Gary Russell Jr.
30-1-0 (18)
USA
3
4
Oscar Valdez
26-0-0 (20)
MEX
4
5
Carl Frampton
26-2-0 (15)
NRL
5
6
Can Xu
17-2-0 (3)
CHI
6
7
Tugstsogt Nyambayar
11-0-0 (9)
MNG
7
8
Shakur Stevenson
13-0-0 (7)
USA
9
9
Kid Galahad
26-1-0 (15)
ENG
8
10
Jessie Magdaleno
27-1-0 (18)
USA
10
Junior Featherweight (122lbs/55.3kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
Guillermo Rigondeaux
19-1-0 (13)
CUB
***
1
Rey Vargas
34-0-0 (22)
MEX
1
2
Emanuel Navarrete
29-1-0 (25)
MEX
2
3
Daniel Roman
27-2-1 (10)
USA
3
4
TJ Doheny
22-1-0 (16)
IRE
4
5
Ryosuke Iwasa
26-3-0 (16)
JPN
5
6
Brandon Figueroa
20-0-0 (15)
USA
6
7
Azat Hovhannisyan
18-3-0 (15)
ARM
7
8
Isaac Dogboe
20-2-0 (14)
GHA
8
9
Carlos Castro
24-0-0 (10)
USA
9
10
Ronny Rios
31-3-0 (15)
USA
10
Bantamweight (118lbs/53.5kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Naoya Inoue
18-0-0 (16)
JPN
1
2
Luis Nery
30-0-0 (24)
MEX
2
3
Zolani Tete
28-3-0 (21)
RSA
3
4
Nonito Donaire
40-5-0 (26)
PHI
4
5
Nordine Oubaali
16-0-0 (12)
FRA
5
6
Takuma Inoue
13-0-0 (3)
JPN
6
7
John Riel Casimero
28-4-0 (19)
PHI
7
8
Emmanuel Rodriguez
19-1-0 (12)
PR
8
9
Jason Moloney
19-1-0 (16)
AUS
9
10
Michael Dasmarinas
30-2-1 (20)
PHI
10
Junior Bantamweight (115lbs/52.1kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
Juan Francisco Estrada
40-3-0 (27)
MEX
***
1
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
47-5-1 (41)
THA
1
2
Donnie Nietes
42-1-5 (23)
PHI
2
3
Kazuto Ioka
24-2-0 (14)
JPN
3
4
Jerwin Ancajas
31-1-2 (21)
PHI
4
5
Khalid Yafai
26-0-0 (15)
ENG
5
6
Israel Gonzalez
23-3-0 (10)
MEX
6
7
Andrew Moloney
20-0-0 (13)
AUS
7
8
Alejandro Santiago
20-2-5 (10)
MEX
8
9
Francisco Rodriguez Jr.
32-4-1 (23)
MEX
10
10
Aston Palicte
25-3-1 (21)
PHI
9
Flyweight (112lbs/51kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Kosei Tanaka
14-0-0 (8)
JPN
1
2
Moruti Mthalane
38-2-0 (25)
RSA
2
3
Artem Dalakian
19-0-0 (14)
UKR
3
4
Charlie Edwards
15-1-0 (6)
ENG
4
5
Julio Cesar Martinez Aguilar
14-1-0 (11)
MEX
5
6
Cristofer Rosales
29-4-0 (20)
NIC
6
7
Sho Kimura
18-3-2 (11)
JPN
7
8
Giemel Magramo
24-1-0 (20)
PHI
9
9
Masayuki Kuroda
30-8-3 (16)
JPN
8
10
Jonathan Gonzalez
22-3-1 (13)
PR
10
Junior Flyweight (108lbs/49kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Ken Shiro
16-0-0 (9)
JPN
1
2
Hiroto Kyoguchi
14-0-0 (9)
JPN
2
3
Carlos Canizales
22-0-1 (17)
VEN
3
4
Felix Alvarado
35-2-0 (30)
NIC
4
5
Hekkie Budler
32-4-0 (10)
ZAF
5
6
Elwin Soto
16-1-0 (11)
MEX
6
7
Ryoichi Taguchi
27-4-2 (12)
JPN
7
8
Daniel Valladeres
21-1-0 (13)
MEX
8
9
Edward Heno
14-1-5 (5)
PHI
9
10
Tetsuya Hisada
34-10-2 (20)
JPN
10
Strawweight (105lbs/47.6kg)
Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
OPEN
–
–
–
1
Wanheng Menayothin
54-0-0 (18)
THA
1
2
Knockout CP Freshmart
20-0-0 (7)
THA
2
3
Wilfredo Mendez
15-1-0 (5)
PR
3
4
Byron Rojas
27-4-3 (11)
NIC
4
5
Vic Saludar
19-4-0 (10)
PHI
5
6
Joey Canoy
15-3-1 (8)
PHI
6
7
Jose Argumedo
23-4-1 (14)
MEX
7
8
Simpiwe Konkco
19-6-0 (7)
RSA
8
9
Melvin Jerusalem
15-2-0 (9)
PHI
9
10
Pedro Taduran
14-2-0 (11)
PHI
10
Weekly Rankings – November 6Boxing Rankings
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