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OUR MISSION
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.
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LATEST UPDATE
8 June 2021
NO CHANGES this week, but be sure to take a tour of the tabs (see above). Boxing historians, purists, and fans fed up with the irrationality of the sport’s current structure may find a port in the storm in what we’re offering.
The writer of this update heard from one of Roberto Duran’s daughters the other day. She rolled her eyes at the so-called exhibition Saturday night, calling it “Mayweather vs. whatever (LOL).” That’s about right.
****We hope you are impressed with our new website. Please let us know in the Feedback tab. Special thanks to one of our founding members and Tech Stewart Howe, who devotes his valuable time and considerable skill to this reform-minded initiative free of charge. Back in the summer of 2012, Howe’s love for boxing moved him to join the initiative out of the gate. Without him, we wouldn’t have made it past the gate. We’d still be trying to climb that gate.
A resounding thank you to Stewart and to all of our fans and followers who see what he sees –boxing’s need for identifiable and singular divisional champions and rankings that aren’t compromised by competing interests. ***
SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021
Light Heavyweight: #5 Badou Jack vs. Dervin Colina [Miami Gardens, Florida]
Middleweight: Jarrett Hurd (#5 at 154) vs. Luis Arias [Miami Gardens, Florida]
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2021
Jr. Welterweight: Jose Pedraza vs. Julian Rodriguez [Las Vegas, Nevada]
Jr. Welterweight: Lewis Ritson vs. Jeremias Ponce [Newcastle, England]
Jr. Lightweight: Shakur Stevenson vs. Jeremiah Nakathila [Las Vegas, Nevada]
THE TRUE CHAMPIONS
| Division | Name | Record | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavyweight | Tyson Fury | 30-0-1 (21) | ENG |
| Cruiserweight | Mairis Briedis | 27-1-0 (19) | LVA |
| Light Heavyweight | Artur Beterbiev | 15-0-0 (15) | RUS |
| Lightweight | Teofimo Lopez | 16-0-0 (12) | USA |
| Junior Welterweight | Josh Taylor | 18-0-0 (13) | SCT |
| Junior Featherweight | Guillermo Rigondeaux | 20-1-0 (13) | CUB |
| Junior Bantamweight | Juan Francisco Estrada | 41-3-0 (28) | MEX |
Teddy Atlas
In-studio Analyst , ESPN
Put your trust in the one that I put my trust in –the Transnational Rankings Board. They are a nonbiased group that want to do it the right way.
If I was a man of power in boxing, I make one organization. No WBA and WBC. I’d have one championship.
Muhammad AliSport interview (December 1981) 
I hope that before I pass that they restore this game and bring it back to only one champion in the world
Marvelous Marvin HaglerMiddleweight king from 1980 to 1987 
Belts are like a fighter winning an amateur trophy. Everybody’s a champion! Everybody has a belt! … This is not good for the sport of boxing.
Floyd Mayweatherinterviewed on SHOWTIME Sports, 10/21/2020 
I still think I can lick any light heavyweight in the world, but it’s too much of a mental thing to fight the WBA and the WBC too
Bob Fosterretiring in 1974 
Every darn heavyweight in the United States has a title!
Greg Page1984 
Back in the 30s and 40s, we had 8 world champions that were recognized. There was a great deal of respect attached to those titles
Eddie Futch 
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