{"id":229090,"date":"2025-10-28T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229090\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:07:09","slug":"big-change-at-heavyweight-and-one-other-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229090\/","title":{"rendered":"Big change at heavyweight and one other division"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ring<\/a>‘s latest ratings are here and there’s a big change in the heavyweight division after one of the fights of the year between Joseph Parker<\/a> and Fabio Wardley<\/a>.
Wardley stopped Parker in dramatic fashion in the 11th round<\/a> of their back-and-forth battle at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday night.
In doing so, the Ipswich man put himself in line to challenge Ring and undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksadr Usyk<\/a> in 2026.
Wardley, 30, was an underdog heading into his fight with Parker but, just as he did against Justis Huni in June<\/a>, pulled the rabbit out of the hat late on to stun his opponent, who was leading on two cards at the time of the stoppage.
Elsewhere in the boxing world, it was the battle of the Filipinos on Sunday as Pedro Taduran defended his IBF strawweight title against Christian Balunan<\/a>, winning by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Scroll down to read the alterations made.<\/p>\n

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

Heavyweight<\/p>\n

Fabio Wardley moves up four places to the No. 2 spot. Joseph Parker moves down twice to No. 4.<\/p>\n

C OLEKSANDR USYK Ukraine 24-0-0 (15 KOs)<\/p>\n

1 TYSON FURY U.K. 34-2-1 (24 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 FABIO WARDLEY U.K. 20-0-1 (19 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 AGIT KABAYEL Germany 26-0-0 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 JOSEPH PARKER New Zealand 36-4-0 (24 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 DANIEL DUBOIS U.K. 22-3-0 (21 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 FILIP HRGOVIC Croatia 19-1-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 ZHILEI ZHANG China 27-3-1 (22 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 MARTIN BAKOLE Congo 21-2-1 (16 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 MOSES ITAUMA U.K. 13-0-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 EFE AJAGBA Nigeria 20-1-1 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

Junior featherweight<\/p>\n

Luis Nery exits the list from the No. 2 spot after moving up in weight. Everyone below him moves up. New entry is Bryan Mercado at No. 10.<\/p>\n

C NAOYA INOUE Japan 31-0-0 (27 KOs)<\/p>\n

1 MARLON TAPALES Philippines 40-4-0 (21 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 MURODJON AKHMADALIEV Uzbekistan 14-2-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 SAM GOODMAN Australia 20-1-0 (8 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 ALAN PICASSO Mexico 32-0-1 (17 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 SHABAZ MASOUD U.K. 14-0-0 (4 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 TJ DOHENY Ireland 26-6-0 (20 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 RAMON CARDENAS U.S. 26-2-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 SEBASTIAN HERNANDEZ Mexico 20-0-0 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 SUBARU MURATA Japan 10-0-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 BRYAN MERCADO Mexico 31-1-0 (25 KOs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ring‘s latest ratings are here and there’s a big change in the heavyweight division after one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-229090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}