Boxing Rankings (Aug. 2, 2021): Leigh Wood crashes featherweight, more

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Ranked fights this week:

• Heavyweight: (9) Michael Hunter vs Mike Wilson, Aug. 3
• Featherweight: (3) Child Galahad vs Jazza Dickens, Aug. 7
• Bantamweight: (10) Lee McGregor vs Vincent Legrand, Aug. 6

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Notes: Joe Joyce’s July 24 win over Carlos Takam wasn’t essentially the most thorough or spectacular victory ever, and the Takam facet moaned in regards to the stoppage, however he’s 40, he is aware of he has to throw punches again if he doesn’t need referees to cease him, and Joyce isn’t actually a lot about domination within the sense that he’s not going to win each spherical of fights or something like that. His power is in his dimension, engine, and sturdiness, that he can hopefully put on individuals down. He doesn’t even have significantly large energy for his dimension or that stoppage fee, he’s not a giant one-punch artist or something. He simply drains opponents. So he stays the place he was.

Upcoming Fights: (9) Michael Hunter vs Mike Wilson, Aug. 3 … (2) Anthony Joshua vs (6) Oleksandr Usyk, Sept. 25 … (1) Tyson Fury vs (3) Deontay Wilder, Oct. 9

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Upcoming Fights: TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (4) Joe Smith Jr vs Umar Salamov, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (3) David Benavidez vs Jose Uzcategui, Aug. 28 … (1) Canelo Alvarez vs TBA, Sept. 18

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Upcoming Fights: (1) Gennadiy Golovkin vs (5) Ryota Murata, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (7) Sebastian Fundora vs (10) Sergio Garcia, TBA

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Notes: Keith “One Time Each As soon as in a Whereas” Thurman is out, it’s been two years, he doesn’t have something scheduled, that’s lengthy sufficient. That bumps a bunch of individuals up a spot and offers a gap within the No. 10 slot, the place I went with Egidijus “Imply Machine” Kavaliauskas.

Kavaliauskas’ run within the high 10 could also be transient, as he faces Vergil Ortiz Jr on Aug. 14 and if he loses there, I take into consideration the choice once more, which this time actually got here all the way down to Kavaliauskas, Jamal James, and David Avanesyan. And Mikey Garcia shall be transferring again all the way down to 140 sooner or later, it appears, although with Mikey Garcia I believe it’s sensible to take a “wait till it’s totally introduced and signed” method to something really taking place.

Upcoming Fights: (7) Vergil Ortiz Jr vs (10) Egidijus Kavaliauskas, Aug. 14 … (1) Errol Spence Jr vs (3) Manny Pacquiao, Aug. 21 … (5) Yordenis Ugas vs Fabian Maidana, Aug. 21 … (2) Terence Crawford vs (4) Shawn Porter, TBA … (9) Mikey Garcia vs Regis Prograis [junior welterweight], TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (7) Ivan Baranchyk vs Montana Love, Aug. 29 … (1) Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall, TBA … (2) Regis Prograis vs Mikey Garcia, TBA

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Notes: With Luke Campbell retiring, a spot opened up, so Masayoshi Nakatani is again in. I do know he’s misplaced two of his final three, however they had been to Teofimo Lopez and Vasiliy Lomachenko, who would in all probability additionally beat everybody else right here, or on the very least can be favored to take action.

Upcoming Fights: (1) Teofimo Lopez vs (9) George Kambosos Jr, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (7) Shavkat Rakhimov vs Kenichi Ogawa, Aug. 20 … (1) Oscar Valdez vs Robson Conceicao, Sept. 10 … (3) Jamel Herring vs (5) Shakur Stevenson, TBA

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Notes: Nicely, that’s why you struggle the fights. Leigh Wood didn’t totally dominate Xu Can in his Saturday upset, however he didn’t go away any room for doubt, both. He ought to have received on factors if the struggle had completed the space, and he didn’t let it end the space, incomes a twelfth spherical stoppage.

The win provides Wooden what needs to be the one WBA belt on the market, so for my cash — and I take this case-by-case as a result of boxing completely simply doesn’t work with definites throughout the board — he’s as a lot “world champion” as Russell or Navarrete are, or the Galahad-Dickens winner shall be.

This can be a free, odd division to rank, so yeah, Leigh Wooden: High 5 Featherweight. I’m not saying I believe he’d deeeefinitely beat everybody beneath him (Villa would give him or anybody besides Russell hell simply on model, I consider, and Warrington can be a handful, and so forth.) however he appeared good, disciplined, and assured in that struggle. Generally fighters have it click on and get an actual run in a profession that didn’t seem like something particular not too way back. Wooden is on one a type of runs.

Upcoming Fights: (3) Child Galahad vs Jazza Dickens, Aug. 7 … (5) Mauricio Lara vs (6) Josh Warrington, Sept. 4 … (1) Gary Russell Jr vs Rey Vargas, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (2) Stephen Fulton Jr vs (3) Brandon Figueroa, Sept. 11 … (4) Danny Roman vs (10) Ra’eese Aleem, Sept. 11 … (1) Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs (8) Ronny Rios, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (10) Lee McGregor vs Vincent Legrand, Aug. 6 … (3) John Riel Casimero vs (4) Guillermo Rigondeaux, Aug. 14 … (6) Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Gary Antonio Russell, Aug. 14 … (7) Jason Moloney vs Joshua Greer Jr, Aug. 14 … (9) Takuma Inoue vs Shingo Wake, Nov. 11

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Upcoming Fights: (7) Joshua Franco vs (9) Andrew Moloney, Aug. 14 … (2) Kazuto Ioka vs Francisco Rodriguez Jr, Sept. 1 … (1) Juan Francisco Estrada vs (4) Chocolatito Gonzalez, Oct. 16 … (3) Srisaket Sor Rungvisai vs Carlos Cuadras, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (3) Junto Nakatani vs (6) Angel Acosta, Sept. 10 … (2) Sunny Edwards vs Jayson Mama, Sept. 11

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Upcoming Fights: (1) Kenshiro Teraji vs Masamichi Yabuki, Sept. 10 … (2) Hiroto Kyoguchi vs (10) Esteban Bermudez, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (3) Errol Spence Jr vs Manny Pacquiao, Aug. 21 … (1) Canelo Alvarez vs TBA, Sept. 18 … (8) Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua, Sept. 25 … (9) Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder, Oct. 9 … (10) Juan Francisco Estrada vs Chocolatito Gonzalez, Oct. 16 … (4) Teofimo Lopez vs George Kambosos Jr, TBA … (6) Terence Crawford vs Shawn Porter, TBA … (7) Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall, TBA

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Upcoming Fights: (3) Amanda Serrano vs Yamileth Mercado, Aug. 29 … (6) Mikaela Mayer vs (10) Maiva Hamadouche, TBA