{"id":270077,"date":"2025-11-18T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270077\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:33:10","slug":"big-changes-at-middleweight-and-three-other-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270077\/","title":{"rendered":"Big changes at middleweight and three other divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the highest-profile fights of 2025 took place at the weekend as Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>. and Conor Benn<\/a> battled it out in a middleweight grudge rematch \u2014 and it had big ramifications on the latest 160-pound rankings.
Eubank won the first bout in April<\/a>, but Benn flipped the script and scored a more dominant victory this time around<\/a> at Tottenham on The Ring’s ‘Unfinished Business’ card to end the families’ 35-year rivalry.
On the undeclared, Adam Azim<\/a> and Jack Catterall<\/a> bagged impressive stoppage victories.
Azim dropped and stopped American Kurt Scoby<\/a> in the 12th round while Catterall put himself in position to fight for a welterweight world title with an 11th-round TKO win over Ekow Essuman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overall, there were changes made in four divisions.<\/p>\n

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

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

Middleweight<\/p>\n

New ranking is Benn, who enters at No. 4. Yoenli Hernandez jumps up to No. 3. Eubank drops six places to No. 9. Marquis Taylor exits the list.<\/p>\n

C (vacant)<\/p>\n

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

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

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

4 CONOR BENN U.K. 24-1-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 TROY ISLEY U.S. 15-0-0 (5 KOs)<\/p>\n

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

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

8 AUSTIN WILLIAMS U.S. 19-1-0 (13 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 CHRIS EUBANK JR. U.K. 35-4-0 (25 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 DENZEL BENTLEY U.K. 21-3-1 (17 KOs)<\/p>\n

Welterweight<\/p>\n

New ranking is Catterall, who enters at No. 8. Mario Barrios drops to No. 9 and Manny Pacquiao drops to No. 10. Essuman exits the list.<\/p>\n

C (vacant)<\/p>\n

1 BRIAN NORMAN JR. U.S. 28-0-0 (22 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 EIMANTAS STANIONIS Lithuania 16-1-0 (9 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 GIOVANI SANTILLAN U.S. 34-1-0 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 ROHAN POLANCO Dom. Rep. 17-0-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 SHAKHRAM GIYASOV Uzbekistan 18-0-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 ALEXIS ROCHA U.S. 25-2-1 (16 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 RAUL CURIEL Mexico 16-0-1 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 JACK CATTERALL U.K. 32-3-0 (14 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 MARIO BARRIOS U.S. 29-2-2 (18 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 MANNY PACQUIAO Philippines 62-8-3 (39 KOs)<\/p>\n

Junior welterweight<\/p>\n

Azim jumps two spots to No. 8. Andy Hiraoka drops two places to No. 10.<\/p>\n

C TEOFIMO LOPEZ U.S. 22-1-0 (13 KOs)<\/p>\n

1 RICHARDSON HITCHINS U.S. 20-0-0 (8 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 SUBRIEL MATIAS Puerto Rico 23-2-0 (22 KOs)<\/p>\n

3 ALBERTO PUELLO Dom. Rep. 24-1-0 (10 KOs)<\/p>\n

4 ARNOLD BARBOZA U.S. 32-1-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 GARY ANTUANNE RUSSELL U.S. 18-1-0 (17 KOs)<\/p>\n

6 SANDOR MARTIN Spain 42-4-0 (15 KOs)<\/p>\n

7 DALTON SMITH U.K. 18-0-0 (13 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 ADAM AZIM U.K. 14-0-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 LINDOLFO DELGADO Mexico 24-0-0 (16 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 ANDY HIRAOKA Japan 24-0-0 (19 KOs)<\/p>\n

Junior flyweight<\/p>\n

New ranking is Sivenathi Nontshinga at No. 10. Arar Andales drops out.<\/p>\n

C (vacant)<\/p>\n

1 CARLOS CANIZALES Venezuela 28-3-1 (20 KOs)<\/p>\n

2 KYOSUKE TAKAMI Japan 10-0-0 (8 KOs)<\/p>\n

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

4 THANONGSAK SIMSRI Thailand 39-1-0 (34 KOs)<\/p>\n

5 SHOKICHI IWATA Japan 15-2-0 (12 KOs)<\/p>\n

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

7 CRISTIAN ARANETA Philippines 25-3-0 (20 KOs)<\/p>\n

8 ERIC BADILLO Mexico 18-0-0 (8 KOs)<\/p>\n

9 MASATAKA TANIGUCHI Japan 21-5-0 (15 KOs)<\/p>\n

10 SIVENATHI NONTSHINGA S. Africa 14-2-0 (11 KOs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the highest-profile fights of 2025 took place at the weekend as Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270078,"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-270077","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\/270077","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=270077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}