10. Ezekiel “Kell” Brook

Kell is a 30 year old British professional boxer and he is the 10^th on the pound for pound ranking. He is currently the IBF welterweight Champion with a record of: 36 Wins, 25 KOs, and still undefeated on his professional boxing career. Aside from being a pound for pound boxer by the Ring, he is also ranked as the world’s best welterweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and 7^th best boxer by the BoxRec.

9. Naoya Inoue

Naoya Inoue is still 23 years old but he is already ranked as 9^th best pound for pound boxer by The Ring. Naoya is a Japanese boxer and he is currently the WBO Junior Bantamweight Champion and the former WBC Light flyweight Champion. He was dubbed as “The Monster” by his fans because of his devastating punching power and brutal body attacks to his opponents. His boxing record is 10 wins, 8 via KOs, and still undefeated.

8. Shinsuke Yamanaka

Shinsuke Yamanaka is a 33 year old Japanese professional boxer who is currently the WBC Bantamweight Champion of the world. He is also currently the 8^th pound for pound boxer by the Ring magazine and has a record of 25 wins, 17 KOs, 2 draws and still undefeated.

7. Santos Saul Alvarez Barragan (Saul Alvarez)

Santos Saul Alvarez Barragan or commonly known as Saul Alvarez and has a nickname of “Canelo” Alvarez in the boxing world is a Mexican professional boxer. On his 49 fights, 47 are wins and 33 of those wins are by KOs, plus 1 loss and 1 draw. Canelo is currently the lineal middleweight Champion and he is also the former WBC middleweight, light middleweight, WBA(Regular) and The Ring light middleweight Champion.

6. Terence Crawford

Terence Crawford is still 28 years old but he is already the 6^th in The Ring magazine’s pound for pound rank. Terence is currently the WBO junior welterweight Champion and a former WBO and The Ring magazine lightweight champion. He is ranked as the world’s seventh best fighter, pound for pound by the Ring magazine last October 2015. He is nicknamed “Bud” and is known for being fast, hard hitting, and highly technical fighter. One reason of him being famous is his unique ability of changing his stance from orthodox to southpaw.

5. Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz is a 35 year old Cuban professional boxer that has a great winning record in professional boxing. He win all his 16 fights and 10 of it are via KOs. He is the current lineal super bantamweight champion and the former WBA (Super), WBO, and the Ring magazine super bantamweight Champion. Guillermo is also recognized as the world’s number one super bantamweight by Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) and The Ring. The Ring also rank him as the 5^th pound for pound and BoxRec ranked him as the 10^th best boxer.

4. Andre Ward

Andre Ward or commonly known as S. O. G. (Son Of God) is a 32 year old American professional boxer. He is the former lineal, The Ring magazine, WBA (Super), and WBC super middleweight Champion. Andre is ranked also by the Ring Magazine, Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated and ESPN as 4^th pound for pound boxer in the world. He is considered today as the most complete boxer because of his speed, intelligence on the ring especially on controlling distance and pace. Ward is also a commentator and expert analyst on HBO since 2014. He has a record of 29 wins, 15 of which are KOs and still undefeated.

3. Gennady Golovkin

Gennady Golovkin is a Kazakhstani professional boxer with an age of 34 years old and currently holding the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, and IBO middleweight titles. This June 2016, he is ranked as the world’s best middleweight boxer by The Ring magazine and number two by the BoxRec. Both of them also ranked Golovkin as the third pound for pound boxer in the world. He was named Fighter of the Year in 2013 by The Ring. Golovkin currently holds the highest knockout percentage in the middleweight championship history of 91.4%. He is also considered as one of the hardest chins in modern boxing because he was never been knocked out or knocked down in over 375 fights of him on professional and amateur. He has 35 wins, 32 via KOs with no defeat today.

2. Sergey Kovalev

Sergey Kovalev is a Russian professional boxer. He is currently the unified WBO, IBF, WBA (Super) and WBC Diamond light heavyweight champion. Kovalev is very famous because of his punching power. He was named as the Fighter of the Year in 2014 by the Ring magazine. Kovalev has a professional record of 29 wins, 26 KOs, 1 draw and still undefeated.

1. Roman Gonzalez

Roman Alberto Gonzales Luna or best known as Roman Gonzales is a Nicaraguan professional boxer. Gonzales is the current WBC, Lineal and The Ring magazine flyweight champion. He is also a former WBA light flyweight and the WBA minimumweight champion. He is a three-weight world champion and the best pound for pound boxer but he is still 28 years young. Gonzales has total fights of 45 and those are all wins with 38 via KOs. A really strong fellow right?

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Boxing is a combat sport where two people are wearing gloves and fight using only their fists. They are fighting inside a boxing ring where they will try to knock out their opponent for a certain time in a round. Every round usually takes 3 minutes long with 1 minute break after each round. The number of rounds on every match is based on what title these boxers are fighting for.

Every match has a referee that will supervise the match. The boxer should knockout his opponent and makes him unable to continue the match anymore for the other boxer to win. Another way to win is to finish the match and wait for the Judges’ decision. Amateur boxing is popular all over the world. It’s both an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and very common in international games and has its own World Champions.

Professional boxing started in the early 20^th century when this sport was slowly regulated and made as a kind of sport. The bouts during those years happen in United States and Britain. But later on, boxing on United States became more popular and it became the center of professional boxing. After 1920, an association named National Boxing Association (NBA) was later on established to sanction “title fights”. NBA was later renamed to World Boxing Association (WBA) in the year 1962. Then another body was established in the year 1983 and was called International Boxing Federation (IBF).

Starting on the 21^st century, a boxer should be acknowledged by the three bodies to call as the “Undisputed World Champion”. Professional boxing match are longer than the amateur ones. Professional boxing also doesn’t allow any protective gear except for the gloves unlike Amateur boxing where a boxer can wear a protective head gear. This time, professional boxing is more popular than amateur boxing because most of the best boxers are fighting as a professional boxer.

Boxing Rules

NOT ALLOWED DURING THE MATCH:

• hit below the belt

• hold, trip

• kick

• headbutt

• wrestle

• bite

• spit on

• push your opponent

• hit with your head

• hit with your shoulder

• hit with your forearm

• hit with your elbow

• Punching on opponent’s back, or the back of his head or neck (rabbit punch), or on the kidneys (kidney punch).

• Punching while holding on to the ropes.

• Holding the opponent and hitting him at the same time

• Ducking lower than the opponent’s belt

BASIC BOXING RULES

• Take a full step back when the referee breaks you from a clinch. Then you cannot hit your opponent immediately after the break and that is called “hitting on the break”. It’s very illegal on this sport.

• After scoring a knockdown to your opponent, go to the nearest neutral corner as the referee will make the count.

• You cannot hit an opponent that you “floor” while he is on the canvas.

• The floored boxer has only 10 seconds to get back on his feet before losing the bout by the way of knockout.

• The boxer who is knocked down cannot be saved by the bell in any round.

• Any boxer who is hit by an accidental blow will be given 5 minutes to recover but if he can’t recover after that time then he/she will be considered knocked out.

• A foul that causes an injury and makes the fight to end immediately will make the boxer who committed the foul disqualified.

• But if there is a foul with injury and the fight still continues, then the boxer who committed the foul will be deducted two points by the judges.

• “No contest” will be ruled to the unintentional foul that causes the fight to be stopped and if the 4 rounds are not yet completed. If the 4 rounds are already completed then the winner will be the one with most points during those rounds. If the score is even then it will be called as a “technical draw”.

• A boxer that is knocked out of the ring will be given 20 counts to get back in the ring and on his feet without the help of anyone.

• In some jurisdictions the standing eight-count or the three knockdown rule also may be in effect.
• In other jurisdictions, only the referee can stop the bout.

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