Recently, The Ring, the esteemed boxing magazine, updated its pound-for-pound (P4P) rankings. Following his seventh-round KO victory over Juan Estrada (44-4, 28 KOs) last Sunday, WBC super-flyweight champion and two-division world titlist Jesse Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KOs) climbed to fifth in the The Ring P4P list, up from ninth. Here are the top ten:
Rank
Boxer
Record
Nationality
1
Oleksandr Usyk
22-0, 14 KOs
Ukraine
2
Naoya Inoue
27-0, 24 KOs
Japan
3
Terence Crawford
40-0, 31 KOs
USA
4
Canelo Álvarez
61-2-2, 39 KOs
Mexico
5
Jesse Rodriguez
20-0, 13 KOs
USA
6
Artur Beterbiev
20-0, 20 KOs
Canada
7
Dmitry Bivol
23-0, 12 KOs
Russia
8
Gervonta Davis
30-0, 28 KOs
USA
9
Errol Spence Jr.
28-1, 22 KOs
USA
10
Kosei Tanaka
27-0, 20 KOs
Japan
At present, Usyk, Inoue, and Crawford, all two-division four-belt champions, have been rotating as P4P king over the past two years. With Spence having been inactive for almost a year by the end of this month, it is likely he will drop out of the top ten next month.
