Fightful Boxing Rankings (2/5): Sergey Kovalev Retakes The Light Heavyweight Throne

The Fightful Boxing Rankings are compiled by lead boxing writer Carlos Toro.

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Fightful Boxing Rankings:

Pound-for-pound

1. Vasiliy Lomachenko
2. Terence Crawford
3. Naoya Inoue
4. Oleksandr Usyk
5. Canelo Alvarez
6. Mikey Garcia
7. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
8. Gennady Golovkin
9. Donnie Nietes
10. Leo Santa Cruz

Heavyweight

1. Anthony Joshua
2. Tyson Fury
3. Deontay Wilder
4. Dillian Whyte
5. Jarrell Miller
6. Luis Ortiz
7. Kubrat Pulev
8. Alexander Povetkin
9. Joseph Parker
10. Dominic Breazeale

Cruiserweight

1. Oleksandr Usyk
2. Denis Lebedev
3. Beibut Shumenov
4. Mairis Briedis
5. Krzysztof Glowacki
6. Murat Gassiev
7. Yunier Dorticos
8. Firat Arslan
9. Marco Huck
10. Andrew Tabiti

Light heavyweight

1. Sergey Kovalev
2. Dmitry Bivol
3. Oleksandr Gvozdyk
4. Marcus Browne
5. Artur Beterbiev
6. Eleider Alvarez
7. Badou Jack
8. Sullivan Barrera
9. Joe Smith Jr.

Super middleweight

1. Callum Smith
2. David Benavidez
3. Caleb Plant
4. Gilberto Ramirez
5. Jose Uzcategui
6. James DeGale
7. Jesse Hart
8. Caleb Truax
9. Chris Eubank Jr.
10. Anthony Dirrell

Middleweight

1. Canelo Alvarez
2. Gennady Golovkin
3. Daniel Jacobs
4. Billy Joe Saunders
5. Demetrius Andrade
6. Jermall Charlo
7. Sergiy Derevyanchenko
8. Rob Brant
9. Hassan N’Dam
10. Matt Korobov

Junior middleweight

1. Jarrett Hurd
2. Jermell Charlo
3. Jaime Munguia
4. Tony Harrison
5. Erislandy Lara
6. Liam Smith
7. Kell Brook
8. Austin Trout
9. Brian Castano
10. Sergio Garcia

Welterweight

1. Terrence Crawford
2. Errol Spence Jr.
3. Shawn Porter
4. Keith Thurman
5. Manny Pacquiao
6. Danny Garcia
7. Yordenis Ugas
8. Amir Khan
9. Jessie Vargas
10. Thomas Dulorme

The rest of the rankings are in the next page.

Junior welterweight

1. Jose Ramirez
2. Regis Prograis
3. Josh Taylor
4. Maurice Hooker
5. Kiryl Relikh
6. Jorge Linares
7. Ivan Baranchyk
8. Sergey Lipinets
9. Eduard Troyanovski
10. Egidijus Kavaliauskas

Lightweight

1. Vasiliy Lomachenko
2. Mikey Garcia
3. Jose Pedraza
4. Richard Commey
5. Robert Easter Jr.
6. Teofimo Lopez
7. Anthony Crolla
8. Luke Campbell
9. Devin Haney
10. Ricky Burns

Super featherweight

1. Gervonta Davis
2. Miguel Berchelt
3. Alberto Machado
4. Masayuki Ito
5. Tevin Farmer
6. Jezreel Corrales
7. Miguel Roman
8. Francisco Vargas
9. Orlando Salido
10. Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov

Featherweight

1. Leo Santa Cruz
2. Gary Russell Jr.
3. Josh Warrington
4. Oscar Valdez
5. Carl Frampton
6. Joseph Diaz
7. Xu Can
8. Tugstsogt Nyambayar
9. Scott Quigg
10. Jesus Rojas

Super bantamweight

1. Daniel Roman
2. Guillermo Rigondeaux
3. Emanuel Navarrete
4. Isaac Dogboe
5. Rey Vargas
6. TJ Doheny
7. Jessie Magdaleno
8. Brandon Figueroa
9. Tomoki Kameda
10. Ryosuke Iwasa

Bantamweight

1. Naoya Inoue
2. Luis Nery
3. Zolani Tete
4. Nonito Donaire
5. Ryan Burnett
6. Emmanuel Rodriguez
7. Nordine Oubaali
8. Jamie McDonnell
9. Juan Carlos Payano
10. Takuma Inoue

Super Flyweight

1. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
2. Roman Gonzalez
3. Donnie Nietes
4. Khalid Yafai
5. Kazuto Ioka
6. Aston Palicte
7. Jerwin Ancajas
8. Juan Francisco Estrada
9. Carlos Cuadras
10. Andrew Moloney

Flyweight

1. Kosei Tanaka
2. Artem Dalakian
3. Sho Kimura
4. Charlie Edwards
5. Cristofer Rosales
6. Moruti Mthalane
7. Daigo Higa
8. Juan Carlos Reveco
9. Andrew Selby
10. Ganigan Lopez

Light flyweight/Strawweight

1. Wanheng Menayothin
2. Hiroto Kyoguchi
3. Ken Shiro
4. Angel Acosta
5. Hekkie Budler
6. Ryoichi Taguchi
7. Carlos Licona
8. Knockout CP Freshmart
9. Felix Alvarado
10. Vic Saludar