Usyk found out his place in the updated ranking of the best boxers in the world

Authoritative publication ESPN updated the ranking of the best boxers in the world at the end of November, regardless of weight category (P4P). Three absolute world champions kept their positions in the top three.

American Terence Crawford continues to occupy the first place after a convincing victory against the Mexican Saul Alvarez, which took place on September 13 (UD 12).

The holder of the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles, Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk placed in the second position, and the Japanese “Monster” Naoya Inoue closes the top three.

The representative of the USA, David Benavides, was ahead of his compatriot Shakur Stevenson after his success in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). On the night of November 23, the American knocked out the British Anthony Yard in the seventh round.

Changes also took place in the tenth position – Devin Haney from the USA confidently outboxed Brian Norman and became the new WBO world champion in the welterweight category (up to 66.7 kg).

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez left the P4P top ten, the rest of the boxers kept their positions.

Rating of the best modern boxers regardless of weight category (according to ESPN):

(the place in the previous version of the rating is indicated in parentheses)

(1) Terence Crawford (42–0, 31 KOs)

(2) Oleksandr Usyk (24–0, 15 KOs)

(3) Naoya Inoue (31–0, 27 KOs)

(4) Dmitriy Bivol (24–1, 12 KOs)

(5) Jesse Rodriguez (23–0, 16 KOs)

(6) Artur Beterbiev (21–1, 20 KOs)

(8) David Benavidez (31–0, 25 KOs)

(7) Shakur Stevenson (24–0, 11 KOs)

(9) Junto Nakatani (31–0, 24 KOs)

(-) Devin Haney (33–0, 15 KOs)