{"id":338076,"date":"2025-12-09T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338076\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:27:06","slug":"five-irish-boxers-in-first-ever-world-boxing-year-end-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338076\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Irish Boxers in First Ever World Boxing year end rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Team Ireland boxers feature in the first-ever World Boxing year-end rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The new rankings are the second set published by World Boxing and include a number of changes following the \u2018World Boxing Cup Finals 2025 \u2013 Greater Noida\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The competitions that contributed to these rankings are:<\/p>\n<p>Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Under PBU regulations)<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Cup Finals \u2013 Sheffield, England 2024<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Challenge \u2013 Tammer Tampere, Finland 2024<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Cup \u2013 Foz do Iguazu, Brazil\u00a02025<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Challenge \u2013 Usti, Czechia 2025<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Cup \u2013 Astana, Kazakhstan 2025<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Championships \u2013 Liverpool, England 2025<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing Cup Finals \u2013 Greater Noida, 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Standard-Red-75-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51227\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Standard-Red-2025-12-09T141042.355-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51961\"\/><\/p>\n<p>75kg World champion, Aoife O\u2019Rourke, is the top ranked boxer in her category, having clocked up 1,500 points. Her sister, Lisa, who contests at 70kg, is ranked 6th in the world in her weight division, with 300 points, while World Boxing Championship bronze medalist, 65kg Grainne Walsh, is 6th with 600 points.<\/p>\n<p>Of the Team Ireland men, World Boxing Championship 55kg bronze medalist, Patsy Joyce, is 5th on 600 points \u2013 and heavyweight, Jack Marley, is 8th in his division, on 375 points.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 rankings, in full, are available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldboxing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/World-Boxing-Rankings-Document-26.11.25.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rankings will be used to determine seedings at World Boxing\u2019s major Elite competitions, including the World Boxing Championships, Continental Boxing Championships, Multi-Sport Games, World Boxing Cup Finals and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five Team Ireland boxers feature in the first-ever World Boxing year-end rankings. The new rankings are the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-338076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}