WORLD Boxing has published its latest rankings for elite men and women HERE.
The rankings, which cover performances from July 2024 – May 2026 have been updated to include the Asian Boxing Elite Boxing Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in March and April’s ‘World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2026 – Foz do Iguaçu’, and have seen a number of Asian boxers rise up the table following strong performances at their continental championships.
In the women’s categories, 2024 Olympic gold medallist Wu Yu from China now tops the flyweight (W51kg) rankings after securing gold in Mongolia, while Nien-Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei has assumed the number one slot after her victory at welterweight (W65kg).
A silver medal for India’s Jaismine Jaismine in Mongolia has seen her leapfrog Poland’s Julia Szeremeta to take spot at featherweight (W57kg). The Pole will have an opportunity to return to the top of the pile when the European Boxing Championships take place in Sofia, Bulgaria in September this year.
After returning to international competition with a bronze at lightweight (W60kg) in the Asian Boxing Elite Boxing Championships, Lin Yu Ting of Chinese Taipei has entered the rankings in 11th spot at lightweight and third place at featherweight (W57kg) owing to the ranking points she accrued in winning gold at Paris 2024.
In the men’s weight classes, boxers from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan continue to dominate after a strong showing in the continental championships where they won seven of the 10 golds.
Kazakhstan emerged as the most successful nation in Mongolia with four wins for Orazbe Assylkulov (M60kg), Sabirzhan Akkalykov (M75kg) and twin brothers, Nurbek Oralbay (M85kg) and Aibek Oralbay (M90kg+), while Uzbekistan won three categories as Abdulloh Madaminov (M65kg), Faziliddin Erkinboev (M80kg) and Khalimjon Mamasoliev (M90kg) topped the podium.
Elsewhere Rui Yamaguchi of Japan has risen from fifth to second at bantamweight (M55kg) and Jordan’s Zeyad Eashhash has moved-up to second at light-middleweight (M70kg) after golds in Mongolia, while a strong showing at the World Boxing Cup in their home country has seen some of Brazil’s leading boxers consolidate their places at the top of the rankings.
Luiz Gabriel De Oliveira and Yuri Falcao Dos Reis remain second and third in the world at lightweight (M60kg) and welterweight (M65kg) respectively after winning gold on home soil. In the women’s weights, Rebeca De Lima Santos retains top spot at lightweight (W60kg) after she won a silver in the World Boxing Cup – Brazil 2026 to add to the gold she won at last year’s inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool.
The new rankings are the fourth set published by World Boxing.
World Boxing ranking points are awarded for performances at the Olympic Games, World Boxing Cups, World Boxing Championships, Continental Championships, Continental Multi-Sport Games and the World Boxing Cup Finals.
They are then used for seeding boxers at competitions with the points issued on a three-year cycle. Boxers may not accumulate ranking points from more than four competitions at a given time.
The next ranking event of 2026 will be the ‘World Boxing Cup – China 2026’ in Guiyang City, 15 – 21 June 2026, which will be followed by the European Boxing Championships, in Sofia, 15 – 26 September 2026, The Asian Games in Aichi/Nagoya, 19 September – 4 October 2026, and the PanAmerican Boxing Championships in Puebla, 17 – 25 October 2026.
World Boxing’s competition calendar for 2026 can be viewed HERE.
