I didn't even realize Dacres beat Sirenko. Fair play to him but it's not enough to get him into the top 15 just yet but he's now got himself in the mix of the guys who need one more relevant win to get there.
Usyk remains at the top.
Dubois up to 4 because he should've been there already and this fight doesn't detract from that.
Joshua has been inactive and has nothing scheduled so drop him down to #11. Also Usyk’s easy win shows how faded Joshua must be to have lost so easily to Dubois.
I hate leaving DuBois where he is. I thought he was over rated beforehand.
But I can't rate him above Joshua who I also think is rated too high at this moment.
Joshua and Fury should both be way down the rankings but they won't get dropped until their next fight. However, neither will have a fight anytime soon so they're just going to sit at 4 & 6 stinking up the rankings until they get kicked out due to inactivity. Fortunately for Joshua, it's next month but it's the end of the year for Fury. Might as well drop Joshua now because he definitely won't have anything scheduled by the end of August. The same basically applies to Sanchez.
I think we all have to entertain the idea that everyone else in the top 15 probably loses to Usyk, and so people almost have to be ranked on their fights prior to meeting him, and possibly how good they looked in losing.
Getting beat by an ATG shouldn't catapult you straight to the bottom of the heap.
ya, and i cut fury some slack becasue he at least fought very well vs usyk, and i give a certain amount of credit for losing credibly. but sanchez was battered by kabayel and has nothing to fall back on other than the efe win 4 years ago. efe himself was a lower top 10 guy at best, not like he beat up some elite opponent
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑23 Jul 2025, 15:14
Gonna be a straight forward this one.
What’s the best decent HW fight?
Hrg-Adeleye is same night as Whyte-Moses
It's Whyte vs Itauma. If Whyte wins, he's ended the very very significant hype train and shown he's still got it. If Itauma wins, he's beaten a former top 5 guy, although he may be past it.
If Hrgovic wins he's beaten a British level guy. It Adeleye wins he's got himself a top 15 upset win.
joshj909 wrote: ↑21 Jul 2025, 10:55
Joshua and Fury should both be way down the rankings but they won't get dropped until their next fight. However, neither will have a fight anytime soon so they're just going to sit at 4 & 6 stinking up the rankings until they get kicked out due to inactivity. Fortunately for Joshua, it's next month but it's the end of the year for Fury. Might as well drop Joshua now because he definitely won't have anything scheduled by the end of August. The same basically applies to Sanchez.
Let's just see with Sanchez. If he is unable to beat Ajagba again then yes. He definitely had a knee injury in the Kayabel fight, and I doubt he would have won even if he was fully fit, but I believe he would have given a better showing had he been able to move better.
No change for now.
Although I thought Dubois (or triple knee) was worse in the rematch, he is about where he belongs.
It will be interesting to see who he fights next.
Former IBF and WBA cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev, 31-2 (24 KOs) will have his first fight in the United States since 2017. On August 23 in Miami, Florida, Gassiev will take on the Pole Andrzej Wawrzyk, 34-5 (20 KOs) in a non-title ten round heavyweight clash.
Oleksandr Usyk - 24(15) 0 0 - next fight: TBA
Joseph Parker - 36(24) 3(1) 0 - next fight: TBA
Agit Kabayel - 26(18) 0 0 - next fight: TBA
Tyson Fury - 34(24) 2(0) 1 - next fight: TBA
Filip Hrgovic - 18(14) 1(1) 0 - next fight: 16.08.2025 vs. 
Zhilei Zhang - 25(22) 3(1) 1 - next fight: TBA
Efe Ajagba - 20(14) 1(0) 1 - next fight: TBA
Martin Bakole - 21(16) 2(2) 1 - next fight: TBA
Frank Sanchez - 25(18) 1(1) 0 - next fight: TBA
Richard Torrez Jr. - 13(11) 0 0 - next fight: TBA
Justis Huni - 12(7) 1(1) 0 - next fight: TBA
