Boxing is all time favorite for the combat sports lovers as it is a sport of skills, energy, and enthusiasm. As the 2018 fight calendar come to an end to unfold in the ring, here are the top 10 best pound-for-pound boxers. If you are a boxing fan then you must watch this to know your favorite boxer position on the list.
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Vasyl Anatoliyovych
Weight: Lightweight
Height: 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Born: 17 February 1988 (age 30)
Stance: Southpaw
Boxing record:
11-1 (9 KO)
Total fights: 13
Wins: 12
Wins by KO: 9
Losses: 1
Titles: WBA (Super) and The Ring lightweight champion
Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He is presently a United lightweight world champion, holding the WBA (Super) and Ring magazine titles since May 2018.
He is well-known for his extraordinary hand speed, timing, precision, originality, flexibility, and footwork. Lomachenko is also one of the most popular and successful amateur boxers of all time, holding various medals, titles, records, and many more achievements.
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Terence Crawford
Weight: Welterweight
Height: 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Born: 28 September 1987 (age 31)
Stance: Orthodox
Boxing record:
34–0 (25 KO)
Total fights: 34
Wins: 34
Wins by KO: 25
Losses: 0
Titles: WBO welterweight champion
Terence Allan Crawford is an American professional boxer. He is a world champion in three weight classes and has also held the WBO welterweight title from the June 2018. Previously from 2014 to 2015, he held the WBO, Ring magazine and lineal lightweight titles. Also, between 2015 and 2017 he held the title of the unified WBA (Super), WBO, WBC, IBF, Ring, and lineal light welterweight titles.
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Canelo Alvarez
Weight: Middleweight
Height: 5 ft 9 (175 cm)
Born: 18 July 1990 (age 28)
Stance: Orthodox
Boxing record:
50–1–2 (34 KO)
Total fights: 54
Wins: 51
Wins by KO: 35
Losses: 1
Draws: 2
Titles: WBA (Super), WBC and The Ring middleweight champion
Santos Saul Alvarez Barragan best known as Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer. He won world champion in three weight classes for multiple times. Since September 2018 he held the unified WBA (Super), WBC, Ring magazine and lineal middleweight titles. He also held the WBA (Regular) super middleweight title since December 2018.
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Oleksandr Usyk
Weight: Cruiserweight
Height: 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Born: 17 January 1987 (age 31)
Stance: Southpaw
Boxing record:
16–0 (12 KO)
Total fights 16
Wins 16
Wins by KO 12
Losses: 0
Titles: WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, The Ring, and lineal cruiserweight champion
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has ruled as the undoubted cruiserweight titleholder since July 2018. He is the first boxer in boxing history to hold all four foremost world title fights at cruiserweight. These titles are the WBO title since 2016, the WBC title since January 2018, and the WBA (Super) and IBF titles since July 2018.
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Gennady Golovkin
Weight: Middleweight
Height: 5 ft 10 1⁄2 (179 cm)
Born: 8 April 1982 (age 36)
Stance: Orthodox
Boxing record:
38–1–1 (34 KO)
Total fights: 40
Wins: 38
Wins by KO: 34
Losses: 1
Draws: 1
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He is popularly known as “GGG” or “Triple G”. Being a former unified middleweight world champion he has held the titles of WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, and IBO between 2010 and 2018. The Ring magazine has classified him as the world’s second-best dynamic middleweight and also the world’s fifth best active boxer, pound for pound.
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Naoya Inoue
Weight: Bantamweight
Height: 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Born: 10 April 1993 (age 25)
Stance: Orthodox
Boxing record:
17–0 (15 KO)
Total fights: 17
Wins: 17
Wins by KO: 15
Losses: 0
Titles: WBA (Regular) bantamweight champion
Naoya Inoue is a Japanese professional boxer. He held the title of WBA (Regular) bantamweight since May 2018 and also he is a three-time weight world champion. Beforehand he also held the title of WBO junior-bantamweight from 2014 to March 2018 as well as the WBC light-flyweight in 2014.
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Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
Weight: Super flyweight
Height: 5 ft 3 (160 cm)
Born: 8 December 1986 (age 32)
Stance: Southpaw
Boxing record:
47–4–1 (41 KO)
Total fights: 52
Wins: 47
Wins by KO: 41
Losses: 4
Draws: 1
Titles: WBC, The Ring, and lineal super flyweight champion
Wisaksil Wangek is popularly known as Srisaket Sor Rungvisai is a Thai professional boxer. He holds the title of WBC super-flyweight champion two times since 2017, and earlier from 2013 to 2014. In the meantime, he has also held the Ring magazine and lineal super flyweight titles from February 2018.
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Anthony Joshua
Weight: Heavyweight
Height: 6 ft 6 (198 cm)
Born: 15 October 1989 (age 29)
Stance: Orthodox
Boxing record
22–0–0 (21 KO)
Total fights: 22
Wins: 22
Wins by KO: 21
Losses: 0
Titles: WBA (Super), IBF and WBO heavyweight champion
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua is a British professional boxer. He is presently a unified world heavyweight champion. He is holding a total number of three titles from the four major championships in the sport. These titles are the IBF title since 2016, the WBA (Super) title since 2017, and the WBO title since March 2018.
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Errol Spence Jr.
Weight: Welterweight
Height: 5 ft 9½
Born: 3 March 1990 (age 28)
Stance: Southpaw
Boxing record
24–0 (21 KO)
Total fights: 24
Wins: 24
Wins by KO: 21
Losses: 0
Titles: IBF welterweight champion
Errol Spence Jr. is an American professional boxer who has held the title of IBF welterweight from 2017. As an amateur, he won three successive repeated United States national championships. He has also represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, in the welterweight division where he reached the quarter-finals.
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Donnie Nietes
Weight: Super flyweight
Height: 5 ft 3 (160 cm)
Born: 13 May 1982 (age 36)
Stance: Orthodox
Boxing record:
41–1–5 (23 KO)
Total fights: 47
Wins: 41
Wins by KO: 23
Losses: 1
Draws: 5
Donnie Liboon Nietes is a Filipino professional boxer. He has held the WBO mini-flyweight title from 2007 to 2011. He is a world champion in three weight classes.
