Women's Boxing Rankings
All current rankings by weight division
This is a master list of all the current rankings across all the sanctioning bodies for women’s boxing. You can find this linked in the top navigation bar and you can refer to it for links to each weight division, which will be updated monthly.
Current rankings will be listed below, and you can scroll down past them for a short explainer of how rankings are determined and by who.
Current Rankings by Weight Class
Flyweight (112 lbs)
Super Flyweight (115 lbs)
Bantamweight (118 lbs)
Super Bantamweight (122 lbs)
Featherweight (126 lbs)
Super Featherweight (130 lbs)
Lightweight (135 lbs)
Super Lightweight (140 lbs)
Welterweight (147 lbs)
Super Welterweight (154 lbs)
Middleweight (160 lbs)
Super Middleweight (168 lbs)
Light Heavyweight (175 lbs)
Heavyweight (175+ lbs)
Sanctioning Bodies - the Big 4
WBC - World Boxing Council
WBO - World Boxing Organization
WBA - World Boxing Association
IBF - International Boxing Federation
Other organizations who rank boxers
Ring Magazine - gives out a belt, “The Ring” belt
BoxRec - go-to website for boxing records
ESPN - reports on all sports, maintains a P4P list
How are rankings determined?
Each sanctioning body has its own system for determining their list of the best boxers in each weight class. These systems are often designed and executed by committees within the organization.
The Big 4 don’t publicly share their methods for ranking, but it has to do with a combination of a fighter’s record, how many wins they’ve achieved, how many of those wins came by knockout, and how high caliber their opponents have been. These metrics are obviously somewhat subjective, hence why each organization’s list looks a little different.
Seeking to be as impartial as possible, BoxRec uses their boxing record data and formulas to calculate the best boxers in each division, as well as their Pound for Pound ranking. The system they have in place is pretty complicated mathematically, so if you’d like a breakdown this is a good one.