BOXERS from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan continue to lead the way in the year-end World Boxing Rankings published HERE with both countries having six boxers ranked number one in the world.
Uzbekistan remains dominant in the men’s categories where is has the number one boxer at 60kg, 65kg, 75kg, 80kg, 85kg, and 90kg. Boxers from Kazakhstan, claim top spot in the four remaining men’s categories, at M50kg, M55kg, M70kg and M90kg+, and two of the women’s weight classes W70kg and W65kg where Aida Abikeyeva shares top spot with Chinese Taipei’s Olympic bronze medallist Chen Nien-Chen.
Other countries with boxers at the top of the pile in the women’s weights include Poland (W57kg and W80kg+), India (W48kg), Türkiye (W51kg), Chinese Taipei (W54kg), Brazil (W60kg), Ireland (W75kg) and Australia (W80kg).
The new rankings are the second set published by World Boxing and include a number of changes following the ‘World Boxing Cup Finals 2025 – Greater Noida’ in November where the success of the home nation, which topped the medal table with nine golds, has had an impact.
In the women’s light-flyweight division (W48kg), India’s Minakshi has risen to number one after securing gold in Greater Noida. It completed a dominant year for the World Boxing Champion who added another major title to her résumé with victories over Korea’s Chorong and Uzbekistan’s Farzona, to earn the maximum 300 ranking points.
At bantamweight (W54kg), India’s Preeti Preeti has entered the rankings at number eight after topping the podium in Great Noida, where she delivered the upset of the tournament, beating World Boxing Championships gold and bronze medallists, Hsiao-Wen Huang of Chinese Taipei and Sirine Charaabi of Italy, on-route to gold.
In the women’s middleweight (W75kg) division, Australia’s Emma Sue Greentree has moved into the top three after she upgraded her World Boxing Championships bronze to gold medal in Greater Noida where she beat Italy’s Melissa Gemini in a tense final.
In the men’s weights, Sachin Sachin of India delivered a big move climbing from 14th to ninth at lightweight (M60kg) after winning gold in Greater Noida, where he defeated Olympic silver medallist Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan in the final.
Gold medal performances in India also saw two English boxers move up the rankings. At light-heavyweight (M80kg), Dimeji Shittu rose one place to sixth. At heavyweight (M90kg), Isaac Okoh went up six places from twelfth to sixth.
At the end of the year, the leading female boxer in the world is still Polish featherweight (W57kg), Julia Szeremeta, who has 2,075 points accrued from her performances at the World Boxing Championships 2025, the World Boxing Cup – Foz do Iguazu 2025 in Brazil and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
In the men’s weights Uzbekistan’s Abdumalik Khalokov and Asadkhuja Muydinkhujiaev, who box at lightweight (M60kg) and welterweight (M65kg) respectively, are tied on 3,000 points, based on their gold medals at the recent World Boxing Championships in Liverpool and the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The top five ranked male and female boxers at the end of 2025 are:
| MALE BOXERS | FEMALE BOXERS | ||||
| Boxer details | Points | Boxer details | Points | ||
| 1st = | Abdumalik KHALOKOV, 60kg, UZB | 3,000 | 1st | Julia SZEREMETA, 57kg, POL | 2,075 |
| 1st = | Asadkhuja MUYDINKHUJAEV, 65kg, UZB | 3,000 | 2nd | Buse CAKIROGLU, 51kg, TUR | 1,975 |
| 3rd | Erislandy ALVAREZ, 65kg, CUB | 2,100 | 3rd | Jaismine JAISMINE, 57kg, IND | 1,950 |
| 4th | Aibek ORALBAY, 90kg+, KAZ | 2,025 | 4th | Minakshi MINAKSHI, 48kg, IND | 1,750 |
| 5th = | Sanzhar TASHKENBAY, 50kg, KAZ | 1,650 | 5th | Hsiao-Wen HUANG, 54kg, TPE | 1,875 |
| 5th = | Makhmud SABYRKHAN, 55kg, KAZ | 1,650 | |||
| 5th = | Fazliddin ERKINBOEV, 75kg, UZB | 1,650 | |||
| 5th = | Javokhir UMMATALIEV, 80kg, UZB | 1,650 | |||
| 5th = | Turabek KHABIBULLAEV, 90kg, UZB | 1,650 | |||
The World Boxing Ranking Points are awarded for at Olympic Games, World Boxing Cups, World Boxing 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 3-year cycle. Boxers may not accumulate ranking points from more than four competitions at a given time.
Full details on how the rankings are calculated, and the allocation of points, are available HERE.