Dan's Weekly Boxer Rankings and Blog

No fights worth noting from last week.

 

Dan’s Top 20 (weeks in current position-weeks in top 10 (if applicable)-weeks in top 20)

Champ: Andre Ward (7-7-7)

Last Fight: 9/8/2012- TKO10 Champ Chad Dawson (at SMW)

Next Fight: Unknown

Ward and Pavlik’s promoters have both confirmed that talks are underway for a February 23 fight on HBO.

1) Chad Dawson (7-334-334)
Last Fight: 9/8/2012- L(TKO10) vs. SMW Champ Andre Ward (at SMW)
Next Fight: Unknown

Rumors of a Dawson-Pascal rematch are now floating around.

2) Bernard Hopkins (7-333-333)
Last Fight: 4/28/2012- L(MD12) vs. #2 Chad Dawson
Next Fight: Unknown

Hopkins is currently non-committal on whether or not he’ll fight again.

3) Jean Pascal (7-175-175)
Last Fight: 5/21/2011- L(UD12) vs. #1 Bernard Hopkins
Next Fight: Unknown

Pascal will come back in December following his long inactivity and hand injury (thus retaining his ranking), with venue and TV problems ensuring that the Cloud fight could not be rescheduled until 2013.  No opponent has been announced.  Pascal is on thin ice with me, though.  He didn’t have to wait as long as he did to schedule the fight with Cloud in the first place, and so if it ever appears that he is no longer returning in December, he will be promptly removed.

4) Gabriel Campillo (7-122-122)
Last Fight: 2/18/2012- L*(UD12) vs. #3 Tavoris Cloud (Robbery)
Next Fight: Unknown

It now looks likely that Campillo will reschedule his fight with hot prospect Sergei Kovalev, from which he withdrew with injury this summer.  It looks like the fight will be the main event of a NBC Sports card from Bethlehem Pennsylvania on January 19.

5) Tavoris Cloud (7-165-165)
Last Fight: 2/18/2012- UD12* vs. #4 Gabriel Campillo (Robbery)
Next Fight: 11/16/2012- vs. #9 Karo Murat

Dan Rafael reports that Cloud-Murat is tentative for November 16 in Venezuela.

6) Cornelius White (7-15-45)

Last Fight: 7/14/2012- UD12 #10 Dmitri Sukhotski

Next Fight: Unknown

White is on a tear.  Is he really top-5 good?  I wouldn’t think so, but he proves me wrong every time I feel I might be overrating him.

7) Nathan Cleverly (7-142-142)
Last Fight: 2/25/2012- UD12 Tommy Karpency (UNR)
Next Fight: 11/10/2012- vs. Ryan Coyne (UNR)

Cleverly has evidently canceled his Cardiff fight against Uzelkoff for a less dangerous matchup that will get him on American TV when he meets undefeated and untested St. Louis prospect Ryan Coyne at Staples Center in L.A. on the HBO-televised Mares-Moreno undercard.

8) Tony Bellew (15-54-54)

Last Fight: 9/8/2012- TKO9 Edison Miranda (UNR)

Next Fight: 11/17/2012- vs. Roberto Feliciano Bolonti (UNR)

Bellew now has an opponent for his appearance on the Froch-Mack undercard: Argentine Champion Roberto Feliciano Bolonti.

9) Karo Murat (7-56-77)

Last Fight: 6/2/2012- TKO7 Sandro Siproshvili (UNR)

Next Fight: 11/16/2012- vs. #5 Tavoris Cloud

With Pascal’s injury, Murat will get his alphabet title shot a little earlier than expected, with November being the apparent target.

10) Beibut Shumenov (7-118-122)

Last Fight: 6/2/2012- UD12 Enrique Ornelas (UNR)
Next Fight: Unknown

11) Yusaf Mack (7-122)
Last Fight: 7/7/2012- UD6 Sabou Ballogou (UNR)
Next Fight: 11/17/2012- vs. #1 SMW Carl Froch (at SMW)

In a fairly sudden development, Mack will drop back down to 168 to fight Carl Froch.

12) Isaac Chilemba (7-38)

Last Fight: 9/29/2012- UD8 Rayco Saunders (UNR)

Next Fight: Unknown

Chilemba came in a bit heavy, but performed as expected, shutting out journeyman Rayco Saunders.

13) Vyacheslav Uzelkoff (7-38)

Last Fight: 7/21/2012- W(MD12) vs. Mohamed Belkacem (UNR)

Next Fight: Unknown

Cleverly understandably skipped out on him for a shot on HBO.  No new plans announced for the Ukrainian.

14) Andrzej Fonfara (7-15)

Last Fight: 7/13/2012- UD10* SMW #16 Glen Johnson

Next Fight: 11/16/2012- vs. Tommy Karpency (UNR)

Fonfara will fight journeyman Tommy Karpency in Chicago in mid-November.

15) Jürgen Brähmer (7-27)

Last Fight: 4/21/2012- UD10 Vikapita Meroro (UNR)

Next Fight: 12/15/2012- vs. Eduard Gutknecht (UNR)

Braehmer gets a shot at very vulnerable paper titlist Eduard Gutknecht in December.  That sounds like a fight safe enough to actually show up to.

16) Denis Grachev (7-26)

Last Fight: 4/27/2012- TKO8 #15 Ismayl Sillakh

Next Fight: 11/3/2012- vs. SMW #4 Lucian Bute

Grachev will fight Lucian Bute at a 170 pound catchweight in November.

17) Dmitri Sukhotski (7-104)

Last Fight: 7/14/2012- L(UD12) vs. #16 Cornelius White

Next Fight: Unknown

The White loss must be a bitter disappointment for Sukhotski, who had been in line for a shot at an alphabet strap held by Cleverly for some time, but with Cleverly blatantly ducking him to great effect.

18) Mikkel Kessler (7-23)

Last Fight: 5/19/2012- TKO4 Allan Green (UNR)

Next Fight: 12/8/2012- vs. Brian Magee (UNR) (at SMW)

Kessler will fight Irish fringe contender Brian Magee on December 8 in Denmark.  The fight will be at 168 it would seem.

19) Tony Averlant (7-30)

Last Fight: 3/31/2012- L*(SD12) vs. #12 Eduard Gutknecht (Robbery)

Next Fight: Unknown

I don’t know if Averlant is now considered too high-risk, low-reward after getting robbed against Gutknecht, but he sure hasn’t fought since then.

20) Ismayl Sillakh (7-93)

Last Fight: 4/27/2012- L(TKO8) vs. Denis Grachev (UNR)

Next Fight: Unknown

Sillakh and his manager are apparently in a very bitter dispute at present, and so Sillakh may have difficulty securing another fight anytime soon.

 

The Week Ahead: Fringe contender Gusmyr Perdomo of Venezuela fights journeyman Luzimar Gonzaga in Caracas on Saturday.

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