Following the majority decision defeat against Ryan Garcia in April 2024, a result that later became a “no decision” due to a positive doping test for Garcia, Haney had fallen out of the top ten. During that fight, Haney suffered three knockdowns, but despite the result modification, he had not managed to re-enter the list until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n“In 2024, I lost everything, everything collapsed on me. In 2025, I came to get it back. In 2026, I’m going for everything,” Haney declared after his recent victory.<\/p>\n\nDevin Haney<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHaney now holds the tenth position, displacing Canelo \u00c1lvarez.\n\n
David Benavidez and Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez Also Headline the List<\/h2>\n\nIn the main event of Saturday’s card, David Benavidez defended his WBC and WBA super-middleweight titles with an outstanding performance against Anthony Yarde, achieving a technical knockout in the seventh round. This victory allowed Benavidez to move up one place, ranking seventh.\n\n\n
\n\n“I rate my performance a B+. I could have done some things better, but there’s always room for improvement. People wanted to see the knockout. They said I didn’t have power at 175 pounds, but I made it look easy,” Benavidez commented.<\/p>\n\nDavid Benavidez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAdditionally, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez unified three super flyweight titles by defeating Fernando Martinez in the tenth round, maintaining his position at number five on the list.\n\n\n
Ranking of the Best Pound-for-Pound Boxers<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Alofoke Deportes expert panel, comprised of Andreas Hale, Timothy Bradley Jr., Joe Tessitore, Teddy Atlas, Nick Parkinson, Eric Raskin, Bernardo Osuna, Eric Woodyard, Bernardo Pilatti, Charles Moynihan, Salvador Rodriguez, Jim Zirolli, Michael Mascaro, Aladdin Freeman, Victor Lopez, and Damian Delgado Averhoff, shared their votes to form the ranking.\n\n\n
Here’s the ranking of the best pound-for-pound boxers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- 1. TERENCE CRAWFORD<\/li>\n
- 2. OLEKSANDR USYK<\/li>\n
- 3. NAOYA INOUE<\/li>\n
- 4. DMITRY BIVOL<\/li>\n
- 5. JESSE RODRIGUEZ<\/li>\n
- 6. ARTUR BETERBIEV<\/li>\n
- 7. DAVID BENAVIDEZ<\/li>\n
- 8. SHAKUR STEVENSON<\/li>\n
- 9. JUNTO NAKATANI<\/li>\n
- 10. DEVIN HANEY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe results are up to November 26th.\n\n\n
1. TERENCE CRAWFORD<\/strong>
\nRecord: 42-0, 31 KOs
\nDivision: Super Middleweight (Undisputed Champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (UD12) against Canelo \u00c1lvarez, September 13th
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\nCrawford showed his brilliance by defeating Canelo and becoming the undisputed super middleweight champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2. OLEKSANDR USYK<\/strong>
\nRecord: 24-0, 15 KOs
\nDivision: Heavyweight (unified champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (KO5) against Daniel Dubois, July 19th
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\nUsyk consolidates himself as one of the best heavyweights, with a decisive victory over Dubois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n3. NAOYA INOUE<\/strong>
\nRecord: 31-0, 27 KOs
\nDivision: Super bantamweight (undisputed champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (UD12) against Murodjon Akhmadaliev, September 14th
\nNext fight: December 27th against David Picasso
\nInoue continues to show his excellence in the ring, dominating Akhmadaliev.<\/p>\n\n\n4. DMITRY BIVOL<\/strong>
\nRecord: 24-1, 12 KOs
\nDivision: Light heavyweight (unified champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (UD12) against Artur Beterbiev, February 22nd
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\nBivol proved his worth by defeating Beterbiev.\n\n\n5. JESSE RODRIGUEZ<\/strong>
\nRecord: 23-0, 16 KOs
\nDivision: Super flyweight (unified champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (KO10) against Fernando Martinez, November 22nd
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\n“Bam” Rodriguez secured the victory in a dominant manner against Martinez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n6. ARTUR BETERBIEV<\/strong>
\nRecord: 21-1, 20 KOs
\nDivision: Light heavyweight
\nLast fight: Loss (UD12) against Dmitry Bivol, February 22
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\nBeterbiev suffered his only professional loss in the rematch against Bivol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n7. DAVID BENAVIDEZ<\/strong>
\nRecord: 31-0, 25 KOs
\nDivision: Super Middleweight (champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (KOT7) against Anthony Yarde, November 22nd
\nNext fight: May 2nd against Gilberto Ramirez
\nBenavidez showed his power by defeating Yarde and aims to become a champion in three divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n8. SHAKUR STEVENSON<\/strong>
\nRecord: 24-0, 11 KOs
\nDivision: Lightweight (champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (UD12) against William Zepeda, July 12th
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\nStevenson dominated Zepeda, demonstrating his skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n9. JUNTO NAKATANI<\/strong>
\nRecord: 31-0, 24 KOs
\nDivision: Bantamweight (unified champion)
\nLast fight: Victory (KOT6) against Ryosuke Nishida, June 8th
\nNext fight: December 27th against Sebastian Hernandez Reyes
\nNakatani is on his way to face Inoue in a historic fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n10. DEVIN HANEY<\/strong>
\nRecord: 33-0 1NC, 15 KOs
\nDivision: Welterweight Champion
\nLast fight: Victory (UD12) against Brian Norman Jr., November 22nd
\nNext fight: To be confirmed
\nHaney proved his worth by defeating Norman and joins the ranking with his impressive skillset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney Returns to the Top 10 of World Boxing Devin Haney has made an impressive return to the top 10 of the pound-for-pound best boxers ranking, according to our experts’ assessment. This achievement marks his re-entry to the list after 20 months, following his unanimous decision victory over Brian Norman Jr. last Saturday in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,3623,10851,10852],"class_list":{"0":"post-91367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-devin-haney","10":"tag-espn-rankings","11":"tag-wbo-welterweight"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}