“The International Boxing Federation (IBF) has published an updated list in Hevaeiti”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
It was expected that the British Moshes Ituma (13–0, 11 KOs) and Nigerian Effe Azhagba (20–1–1, 14 KOs) will be fighting, which will determine the compulsory contender for the World Cup from Ukraine Alexander Usik.
However, both boxers abandoned this idea and flew from the first ten-Ituma fell from the fifth to 11th place, Azhagba-from the third to the 12th. position.
The first place of the rating remained vacant – the obligatory contender for the title will be the winner of the confrontation, where the British Daniel Duba and Cuban Frank Sanchez will meet. At the moment, these boxers are located on the fifth and third line, respectively.
The current IBF world champion is the Ukrainian Alexander Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs), who knocked out Duba on the night of July 20 and won all the four most prestigious boxes in the box.
Rating the strongest boxers of the world in the heavyweight weight (According to IBF):
(brackets indicate a place in the previous version)