The Ring Magazine's Annual Ratings: Cruiserweight--2000s

2000	2001	2002
Title Vacant Juan Carlos Gomez Virgil Hill Vassiliy Jirov Johnny Nelson Marcelo Fabian Dominguez Arthur Williams Carl Thompson James Toney Fabrice Tiozzo Louis Azille	Title Vacant Juan Carlos Gomez Vassiliy Jirov Virgil Hill Johnny Nelson Wayne Braithwaite Ezra Sellers O'Neil Bell Marcelo Fabian Dominguez Alexander Gurov Jorge Fernando Castro	Title Vacant Vassiliy Jirov Jean-Marc Mormeck Wayne Braithwaite James Toney Johnny Nelson Guillermo Jones O'Neil Bell Ezra Sellers Virgil Hill Alexander Gurov

2003	2004	2005
Title Vacant Vassiliy Jirov Wayne Braithwaite Jean-Marc Mormeck Johnny Nelson O'Neil Bell Ezra Sellers Sebastiaan Rothmann Virgil Hill Dale Brown Pietro Aurino	Title Vacant Wayne Braithwaite Jean-Marc Mormeck Johnny Nelson O'Neil Bell Kelvin Davis Carl Thompson Steve Cunningham Virgil Hill Dale Brown Pietro Aurino	Jean-Marc Mormeck, Champion Guillermo Jones Steve Cunningham Johnny Nelson Carl Thompson Wayne Braithwaite O'Neil Bell Dale Brown Pietro Aurino David Haye Krzysztof Włodarczyk

2006	2007
O'Neil Bell, Champion Krzysztof Włodarczyk Steve Cunningham Jean-Marc Mormeck David Haye Vadim Tokarev Enzo Maccarinelli Firat Arslan Marco Huck Johnathon Banks Virgil Hill	David Haye, Champion Steve Cunningham Jean-Marc Mormeck O'Neil Bell Krzysztof Włodarczyk Enzo Maccarinelli Firat Arslan Marco Huck Vadim Tokarev Darnell Wilson Johnathon Banks

2008	2009
Tomasz Adamek, Champion Steve Cunningham Krzysztof Włodarczyk Guillermo Jones O'Neil Bell Firat Arslan Enzo Maccarinelli Marco Huck Vadim Tokarev Giacobbe Fragomeni B.J. Flores	Tomasz Adamek, Champion Steve Cunningham Krzysztof Włodarczyk Zsolt Erdei Marco Huck Giacobbe Fragomeni Vadim Tokarev Troy Ross Danny Green Matt Godfrey Ola Afolabi