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The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board was formed in October 2012 as a volunteer initiative to provide boxing with authoritative top-ten rankings, identify the singular world champion of every division by strict reasoning and common sense, and to insist on the sport’s reform. Board membership includes fifty respected boxing journalists and record keepers from around the world who are uncompromised by so-called sanctioning bodies and promoters.
18 November 2024
Cruiserweight Gilberto Ramirez is now the #1-ranked contender under Division King Jai Opetaia after defeating heretofore #1 contender Chris Billam-Smith (now #3). Noel Mikaelyan exits -once again- for inactivity. Robin Sirwan had a handful more votes than Arsen Goulamirian to round out the top ten.
At Welterweight, Jin Sasaki is bumped out as Abel Ramos debuts in the Transnational Rankings at #5 with a draw against #2-ranked Mario Barrios. Ramos was born, as history would have it, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and history buffs know how many tough ghosts are swarming on that hallowed ground. Barrios-Ramos (I?) paid something of a small tribute to the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
At Jr. Welterweight, Arnold Barboza Jr., bumped out last June, defeats Jose Ramirez in an unexciting fight to take #3. Ramirez slips from #4 to #7. Jose Valenzuela is bumped out.
Big news at Strawweight, where #4-ranked Oscar Collazo shocks undefeated #1 contender Knockout CP Freshmart with a seventh round TKO to take his #1 ranking. Freshmart, who debuted at #7 way back in October 2014, is now #4.
Officially speaking, Mike Tyson’s 7th professional loss occurred nearly twenty years after his 6th professional loss and last fight. That loss …against a youtuber… now appears on the record of the man who cleaned-out the heavyweight division in the 1980s much like Sonny Liston did in the late 1950s-early 1960s. A loss to a youtuber? I’m rolling my eyes just writing that and I bet you did too after you read it. It’s no way for a great fighter (and yes, Teddy Atlas –Tyson was a great fighter) to end a career that already ended long ago; it’s worse than kicking a dead horse –it’s like digging up a decomposed horse just to kick the bones.
But then again…. he got $20 million. It brings to mind a Divine Sounds song from 1984, back when Tyson was 18 and in the Catskills. Remember “What People Do for Money” …?
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We represent 21 countries, including: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, England, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, the United States, Vietnam, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Division | Name | Record | Nation |
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Heavyweight | Oleksandr Usyk | 22-0-0 (14) | UKR |
Cruiserweight | Jai Opetaia | 26-0-0 (20) | AUS |
Light Heavyweight | Artur Beterbiev | 21-0-0 (20) | CAN |
Super Middleweight | Saul Alvarez | 62-2-2 (39) | MEX |
Junior Middleweight | Jermell Charlo | 35-2-1 (19) | USA |
Junior Welterweight | Teofimo Lopez | 20-1-0 (13) | USA |
Junior Featherweight | Naoya Inoue | 27-0-0 (24) | JPN |
Junior Bantamweight | Jesse Rodriguez | 21-0-0 (14) | USA |
In-studio Analyst , ESPN
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