WORLD Boxing has published its latest rankings for elite men and women: https://worldboxing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/World-Boxing-Ranking-2026-July.pdf.
The rankings, which cover performances from July 2024 – June 2026, have been updated to include the recent ‘World Boxing Cup: China 2026 – Guiyang City’ which has seen a number of boxers make progress following their success at the tournament.
In the women’s categories, Kazakhstan’s Viktoriya Grafeyeva has entered the top three at lightweight (W60kg)after her gold in China, while Ziyi Bao has gone from three to two after her middleweight (W75kg) win at home. A silver medal in Guiyang City has seen England’s Sacha Hickey move from eight to six at welterweight(W65kg), while China’s Liu Yang, has jumped six places from 14 to eight at light-middleweight (W70kg), thanks to her gold at the same tournament.
The main movers in the men’s weights are three boxers that won silver medals at the most recent World Boxing Cup. At light-middleweight (M70kg), India’s Deepak Deepak has gone from 12 to nine; at heavyweight, England’s Isaac Okoh has moved up two places to number eight in the world; and at super-heavyweight Nikita Putilov of Germany has risen from 16 to 12.
Six boxers consolidated their position at the top of the rankings with gold medals in Guiyang City. They included Paris 2024 gold medallist, Wu Yu of China (W51kg), Kazakhstan’s 2025 World Boxing Champions, Sanzhar Tashkenbay (M50kg) and Aibek Oralbay (M90kg+) and Abdumalik Khalokov (M60kg), JavokhirUmmataliev (M80kg) and Turabek Khabibillaev (M90kg) of Uzbekistan.
The new rankings are the fifth set published by World Boxing with points being 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.
The rankings are 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 European Boxing Championships in Sofia, 15 – 26 September 2026followed by The Asian Games in Aichi/Nagoya, 19 September – 4 October 2026.
World Boxing’s competition calendar for 2026 can be viewed HERE.
