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Top 10 Super Bantamweight Boxing Rankings

Updating the best Super Bantamweight Boxing World Rankings after Naoya Inoue becomes the Undisputed Super Bantamweight Champion

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By admin | December 29, 2023

The Super Bantamweight World Boxing Rankings features “The Monster” Naoya Inoue in successfully becoming the undisputed Junior Featherweight Champion.

Honorable Mention

Liam Davies

Liam Davies is a professional fighter from the Australia and has a record of 15 wins and 0 losses. He deserves an honorable mention before we move on to the Super Bantamweight Boxing World Rankings.

Zolani Tete

Zolani Tete is a professional boxer from South Africa, and he has a record of 29 wins and 4 losses.

He is the former title holder in two weight classes and held the IBF title at junior bantamweight and the WBO title at bantamweight. Tete is also the current Won Commonwealth, IBF International, and WBO International super bantamweight champion. 

In his most recent fight, he defeated Jason Cunningham via KO, and his next fight has not been announced yet.

Mike Plania

Mike Plania is a boxer from the Philippines, and he has a professional record of 29 wins and 3 losses. 

Plania hasn’t won a world title yet, however, he has held the IBF North American super bantamweight title, and he recently even fought Ra’eese Aleem for the For WBO NABO super bantamweight title. 

In his most recent fight, he defeated Daniel Nicolas by KO and his next fight is not announced yet.

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10. Elijah Pierce

Elijah Pierce is a professional boxer from the USA, and he has a record of 18 wins and 2 losses.  

He hasn’t had any title shots yet, however, he made it to the top 10 after defeating Mike Plania via third-round knockout in his most recent fight. 

There is no information about his next opponent as of now.

9. TJ Doheny

TJ Doheny is a professional boxer from Ireland, and he has a record of 25 wins and 4 losses. 

He is the former  IBF super-bantamweight world champion and currently holds the WBO Asia Pacific super-bantamweight title as well. 

In his most recent fight, he defeated Japhethlee Llamido via TKO, and there is no announcement about his next fight.

8. Azat Hovhannisyan

Azat Hovhannisyan is an Armenian professional boxer, with a record of 21 wins and 4 losses. 

He hasn’t won any international world titles but did challenge Rey Vargas for the WBC super bantamweight title back in 2018, and has previously held the WBC Continental Americas super-bantamweight title.

In his last fight, Hovhannisyan lost to Luis Nery via knockout in the 11th round and there is no announcement about his next fight.

7. Ra’eese Aleem

Ra’eese Aleem is an American professional boxer with a boxing record of 20 wins and 1 loss

Aleem is a former WBA interim super-bantamweight champion, and he won the title in January of 2021 after defeating Vic Pasillas. He also held the Retained NABO super bantamweight title. 

In his most recent fight, Aleem lost to Sam Goodman, and as of now, there is no official announcement about his next fight.

6. Luis Nery

Luis Nery is a Mexican professional boxer, and he has a record of 35 wins and 1 loss

Nery has held multiple world titles in two weight classes. He is the former WBC super bantamweight champion and has also held the unified WBC and Ring magazine bantamweight titles. 

In his most recent fight, he defeated Froilan Saludar via TKO and his next fight has not been announced yet.

5. Sam Goodman

Sam Goodman is a professional boxer from Australia, and he has a record of 17 wins and 0 losses.

With four impressive wins in 2023, Goodman has made his way into the top 10 at Super Bantamweight. He also won the IBF Inter-Continental and WBO Oriental Super Bantamweight titles earlier this year. 

In his last fight, he defeated Zhong Liu via Unanimous Decision, and as of now, there is no official announcement about his next fight.

4. Marlon Tapales

Marlon Tapales is a Filipino professional boxer, and he has a record of 37  wins and 4 losses. 

He is the former unified WBA (Super), and IBF Super-bantamweight world champion and has previously held the WBO bantamweight title as well.

Tapales defeated Murodjon Akhmadaliev in a huge upset winning by slit decision. Tapales won the first 8 rounds throwing and landing more. Akhmadaliev tried to come back late but it was not enough.

He lost the titles to Naoya Inoue in his most recent fight, a devastating fight that was mostly dominated by Inoue.

3. Murodjon Akhmadaliev

Murodjon Akhmadaliev is a professional boxer from Uzbekistan, and he has a record of 12 wins and 1 loss.

Akhmadaliev is the former Unified WBA (super) and IBF Super-bantamweight world champion. He won his titles in 2020 and made three successful title defenses before losing the title to Marlon Tapales.

In his most recent fight, he came back with a solid TKO win against Kevin Gonzalez, and as of now, there is no announcement about his next fight. 

2. Stephen Fulton

Stephen Fulton is an American boxer, and he has an undefeated record of 21 wins and 1 loss and has also held multiple world titles.

Fulton has held multiple world titles at super bantamweight. Until last weekend, he was the unified WBC and WBO super bantamweight champion and held the IBO super bantamweight title back in 2019 as well.

He faced Daniel Roman in a largely one-sided fight. Fulton outboxed Roman and won a wide Unanimous Decision.

Roman lost his title to Naoya Inoue. He got knocked down with a brutal left hook in the 11th round. Though he got back up, he took a lot of unanswered shots afterward, causing the referee to stop the fight.

1. Naoya Inoue

Title(s):

  • WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion
  • WBO Super Bantamweight World Champion
  • WBA Super Bantamweight Super Champion
  • IBF Super Bantamweight World Champion
  • The Ring Super Bantamweight World Champion

Naoya Inoue is a Japanese boxer with an undefeated record of 26 wins and no losses.

Inoue is a 4-division world champion. He is the current unified WBC and WBO super bantamweight champion and has previously held the undisputed title at bantamweight as well. He has held world titles at junior bantamweight and light flyweight as well. 

Inoue defeated Stephen Fulton to win the Super bantamweight title. He won the fight via TKO in the 8th round, after landing a knockdown in the same round.

In his most recent fight, Inoue fought Marlon Tapales, with his unified WBC and WBO super-bantamweight titles, and Tapales’ WBA (Super), IBF, and vacant The Ring titles on the line. He won the fight with a dominant performance, knocking  Tapales twice before getting the KO win in the 10th round.

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  1. Marlon Tapales

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  2. Naoya Inoue

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  3. Edwin Palomares

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  4. Thattana Luangphon

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  5. Jose Martin Estrada Garcia

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  6. Mike Plania

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  7. Azat Hovhannisyan

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  8. Ryosuke Iwasa

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  9. Gakuya Furuhashi

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  10. Shingo Wake

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