{"id":963355,"date":"2026-11-13T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963355\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:52:13","slug":"the-rings-latest-ratings-changes-in-three-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963355\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ring&#8217;s Latest Ratings: Changes in three divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy night on Saturday in the UK as there were two cards on at the same time in different cities. <\/p>\n<p>In London, Cheavon Clarke made it three wins out of three against Chris Billam-Smith, who he beat twice in the amateurs, by <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/clarke-stuns-billam-smith-hands-rival-first-stoppage-loss-4ZH7INlq11eNLkktgEncd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocking him out in the seventh round of their clash<\/a> at Copper Box Arena. <\/p>\n<p>It was the first stoppage defeat of former WBO champion Billam-Smith&#8217;s career. <\/p>\n<p>Just over 160 miles north in Manchester, Willy Hutchinson fulfilled his dream of becoming WBC light heavyweight champion as he <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/hutchinson-gets-revenge-on-buatsi-to-win-vacant-wbc-175-pound-title-4HrxyvE0iKIRHXwB4tVsnt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outpointed Joshua Buatsi in their rematch<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The pair first dueled in September 2024 and it was Buatsi who got the nod but Hutchinson was too tricky this time, pulling out a unanimous decision victory at AO Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to see how the two results impacted the latest rankings. <\/p>\n<p>Bold\/italics denotes movement in a division. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cruiserweight<\/p>\n<p>C JAI OPETAIA Australia 31-0-0 (24 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>Cheavon Clarke enters the list at No. 5. Chris Billam-Smith drops from No. 3 to No. 6. <\/p>\n<p>1 DAVID BENAVIDEZ U.S. 32-0-0 (26 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>2 GILBERTO RAMIREZ Mexico 48-2-0 (30 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>3 MICHAL CIESLAK Poland 28-2-0 (22 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>4 NOEL MIKAELIAN Armenia 28-4-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>5 CHEAVON CLARKE U.K. 13-2-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>6 CHRIS BILLAM-SMITH U.K. 22-3-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>7 BADOU JACK Sweden 29-4-3 (17 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>8 VIDDAL RILEY U.K. 14-0-0 (7 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>9 RYAN ROZICKI Canada 21-2-1 (20 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>10 LEONARDO MOSQUEA France 19-0-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>Light heavyweight <\/p>\n<p>C DMITRY BIVOL Russia 25-1-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>David Benavidez exits the list as he is now campaigning at cruiserweight. Willy Hutchinson jumps three spots from No. 7 to No. 4. Umar Dzambekov is the new No. 10. <\/p>\n<p>1 CALLUM SMITH U.K. 31-2-0 (22 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>2 ANTHONY YARDE U.K. 27-4-0 (24 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>3 IMAM KHATAEV Australia 13-1-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>4 WILLY HUTCHINSON U.K. 21-2-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>5 NAJEE LOPEZ U.S. 17-0-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>6 JOSHUA BUATSI U.K. 20-2-0 (13 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>7 RADIVOJE KALAJDZIC U.S. 31-3-0 (22 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>8 LERRONE RICHARDS U.K. 19-2-0 (4 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>9 ALBERT RAMIREZ Venezuela 23-0-0 (19 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>10 UMAR DZAMBEKOV Austria 15-0-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>Flyweight <\/p>\n<p>C (vacant)<\/p>\n<p>Abraham Perez jumps from No. 8 to No. 6. <\/p>\n<p>1 MASAMICHI YABUKI Japan 20-4-0 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>2 ANTHONY OLASCUAGA U.S. 12-1-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>3 SERGIO MENDOZA Mexico 28-1-0 (24 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>4 MIEL FAJARDO Philippines 14-3-2 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>5 RICARDO SANDOVAL U.S. 27-3-0 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>6 ABRAHAM R. PEREZ U.S. 16-0-0 (7 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>7 JOSELITO VELAZQUEZ Mexico 23-1-1 (15 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>8 YOALI MEJIA MOSQUEDA Mexico 16-0-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>9 ARVIN JHON PACIONES Philippines 13-0-0 (7 KOs)<\/p>\n<p>10 SHOGO TANAKA Japan 6-0-1 (4 KOs)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a busy night on Saturday in the UK as there were two cards on at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,85,2974,8246],"class_list":["post-963355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963355","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=963355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}