{"id":161733,"date":"2025-06-06T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161733\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:56:12","slug":"new-high-entry-at-super-middleweight-changes-in-five-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161733\/","title":{"rendered":"New High Entry At Super Middleweight, Changes In Five Divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ring<\/a>‘s latest divisional ratings have been released and there are changes in five different weight classes, including super middleweight.<\/p>\n

Last weekend was a busy one for boxing in North America as three cards took place across two days.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, the 168-pound division took centre stage as Khalil Coe won his rematch with Manuel Gallegos<\/a> by sixth-round TKO in Guadalajara, Mexico. That very same night, 1500 miles away, Bektemir Melikuziev won a 12-round thriller<\/a> against Darius Fulghum.
Super middleweights were on deck yet again on Saturday as Caleb Plant<\/a> and Jermall Charlo<\/a> made their returns to the ring.
Plant lost by split decision<\/a> to Mexico’s Jose Armando Resendiz while Charlo stopped Thomas LaManna<\/a> in six rounds at Vegas’ Michelob ULTRA Arena. On the undercard, Yoenli Hernandez comprehensively beat Kyrone Davis.
Earlier that week, Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez became IBF junior lightweight world champion<\/a>, beating Masanori Rikiishi by unanimous decision in Yokohama. Yoshiki Takei defended his WBO bantamweight title in the main event against Yuttapong Tongdee, winning by 1st-round TKO<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Read below to see which alterations have been made.<\/p>\n

*Bold\/italics denotes movement in the division.<\/p>\n

Super middleweight<\/p>\n

New rankings are Jose Armando Resendiz at No. 4 and Bektemir Melikuziev at No. 9. Caleb Plant drops to No. 6. William Scull and Vladimir Shishkin each move down a spot. Bruno Surace drops two rungs to No. 10. Edgar Berlanga and Lester Martinez exit the list entirely.<\/p>\n

C CANELO ALVAREZ Mexico 63-2-2 (39 KOs)<\/p>\n

1 CHRISTIAN MBILLI France 28-0-0 (23 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 DIEGO PACHECO U.S. 23-0-0 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 OSLEYS IGLESIAS Cuba 13-0-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 JOSE ARMANDO RESENDIZ Mexico 16-2-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 JAIME MUNGUIA Mexico 45-2-0 (35 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 CALEB PLANT U.S. 23-3-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 WILLIAM SCULL Cuba 23-1-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 VLADIMIR SHISHKIN Russia 16-1-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 BEKTEMIR MELIKUZIEV Uzbekistan 16-1-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 BRUNO SURACE France 26-1-2 (5 KOs)<\/p>\n

Middleweight<\/p>\n

New ranking is Yoenli Hernandez at No. 6. Etinosa Oliha drops a spot to No. 7. Kyrone Davis exits the list.<\/p>\n

C (vacant)<\/p>\n

1 ZHANIBEK ALIMKHANULY Kazakhstan 17-0-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 CARLOS ADAMES Dom. Rep. 24-1-1 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 HAMZAH SHEERAZ U.K. 21-0-1 (17 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 ERISLANDY LARA Cuba 31-3-3 (19 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 CHRIS EUBANK JR. U.K. 35-3-0 (25 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 YOENLI HERNANDEZ Cuba 8-0-0 (7 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 ETINOSA OLIHA Italy 21-0-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 TROY ISLEY U.S. 14-0-0 (5 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 SHANE MOSLEY JR. U.S. 22-4-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 AARON MCKENNA Ireland 20-0-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Junior lightweight<\/p>\n

Eduardo Nunez moves to No. 5 and Robson Conceicao drops to No. 6.<\/p>\n

C (vacant)<\/p>\n

1 O\u2019SHAQUIE FOSTER U.S. 23-3-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 EMANUEL NAVARRETE Mexico 40-2-1 (32 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 ANTHONY CACACE Ireland 24-1-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 LAMONT ROACH U.S. 25-1-2 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 EDUARDO NUNEZ Mexico 28-1-0 (27 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 ROBSON CONCEICAO Brazil 19-3-1 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 EDUARDO HERNANDEZ Mexico 37-2-0 (32 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 CHARLY SUAREZ Philippines 18-1-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 ALBERT BATYRGAZIEV Russia 12-0-0 (8 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 RAYMOND FORD U.S. 17-1-1 (8 KOs)<\/p>\n

Junior flyweight<\/p>\n

New ranking is Kyosuke Takami at No. 10. Previous No. 5 Adrian Curiel drops out of the list after moving up a division. Thanongsak Simsri, Cristian Araneta, Regie Suganob, Erick Rosa and Panya Pradabsri all move up a spot.<\/p>\n

C (vacant)<\/p>\n

1 RENE SANTIAGO Puerto Rico 14-4-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 SIVENATHI NONTSHINGA S. Africa 13-2-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 SHOKICHI IWATA Japan 14-2-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 CARLOS CANIZALES Venezuela 27-3-1 (19 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 THANONGSAK SIMSRI Thailand 38-1-0 (34 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 CRISTIAN ARANETA Philippines 25-2-0 (20 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 REGIE SUGANOB Philippines 16-1-0 (6 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 ERICK ROSA WBA Dom. Rep. 8-0-0 (2 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 PANYA PRADABSRI Thailand 44-2-0 (27 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 KYOSUKE TAKAMI Japan 9-0-0 (7 KOs)<\/p>\n

Strawweight<\/p>\n

Siyakholwa Kuse moves to No. 6 and Dianxhing Zhu drops to No. 7.<\/p>\n

C OSCAR COLLAZO RING U.S. 12-0-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

1 MELVIN JERUSALEM Philippines 24-3-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 PEDRO TADURAN Philippines 18-4-1 (13 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 KNOCKOUT CP FRESHMART Thailand 27-1-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 GINJIRO SHIGEOKA Japan 11-2-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 YUDAI SHIGEOKA Japan 9-2-0 (5 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 SIYAKHOLWA KUSE S. Africa 9-2-1 (4 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 DIANXING ZHU China 14-1-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 YUNI TAKADA Japan 16-8-3 (6 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 JOEY CANOY Philippines 24-5-2 (15 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 RYUSEI MATSUMOTO Japan 5-0-0 (3 KOs)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ring‘s latest divisional ratings have been released and there are changes in five different weight classes, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-161733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114633938216129882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}