Boxing magazine The Ring began naming the top 10 pound for pound boxers in 1989. The first #1 pound for pound fighter was heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

The current pound for pound rankings are compiled and updated by an editorial team at The Ring, typically following major fights or significant changes to a listed boxer's activity, achievements or competition level. Updates are not made on a fixed schedule, and positions are determined via editorial consensus rather than any formal points based ranking system.

For WBA titles, only titles in the primary champion lineage are listed.

Current pound for pound rankings

+As of June 29, 2026 Rank Boxer Record Weight class Title(s) 1 Naoya Inoue 330 (27 KO) Super bantamweight 2 Oleksandr Usyk 250 (17 KO) Heavyweight 3 Shakur Stevenson 250 (11 KO) Light welterweight 4 Jesse Rodriguez 240 (17 KO) Bantamweight 5 David Benavidez 320 (26 KO) Light heavyweightCruiserweight 6 Dmitry Bivol 251 (12 KO) Light heavyweight 7 Junto Nakatani 321 (24 KO) Super bantamweight data-sort-value="Z" 8 Devin Haney 33001 (15 KO) Welterweight 9 Jaron Ennis 36001 (32 KO) Light middleweight 10 Oscar Collazo 150 (12 KO) Mini flyweight

List of pound for pound #1 fighters As of , .

Keys: Current P4P #1

No.NameWeight Division(s) as #1DateDuration1Mike TysonHeavyweightSeptember 12, 1989 – February 12, 1990 2 Julio César ChávezFebruary 12, 1990 – September 15, 1993 3 Pernell Whitaker September 15, 1993 – April 18, 1996 4 Roy Jones Jr. Light heavyweight April 18, 1996 – April 17, 1997 5 Oscar De La Hoya Welterweight April 17, 1997 – October 5, 1999 6 Roy Jones Jr. (2) Light heavyweight October 5, 1999 – July 5, 2000 7 Shane Mosley WelterweightJuly 5, 2000 – January 27, 2002 8 Bernard Hopkins Middleweight January 27, 2002 – March 11, 2003 9 Roy Jones Jr. (3) March 11, 2003 – June 8, 2004 10 Bernard Hopkins (2) Middleweight June 8, 2004 – July 18, 2005 11 Floyd Mayweather Jr.July 18, 2005 – June 9, 2008 12 Manny Pacquiao June 9, 2008 – May 7, 201213 Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2) December 11, 2012 – September 15, 201514 Román González September 15, 2015 – March 21, 2017 15 Andre Ward Light heavyweightMarch 21 – September 26, 2017 16 Gennady Golovkin Middleweight September 26, 2017 – September 18, 2018 17 Vasiliy Lomachenko Lightweight September 18, 2018 – November 7, 2019 18 Canelo Álvarez November 7, 2019 – May 7, 2022 19 Oleksandr Usyk Heavyweight May 7 – June 11, 2022 20 Naoya Inoue Bantamweight June 11 – August 20, 202221 Oleksandr Usyk (2) Heavyweight August 20, 2022 – July 29, 2023 22 Terence Crawford Welterweight July 29, 2023 – May 6, 2024 23 Naoya Inoue (2)Super bantamweight May 6 – May 18, 2024 24 Oleksandr Usyk (3)Heavyweight May 18, 2024 – September 15, 2025 25 Terence Crawford (2)Super middleweight September 15 – December 24, 2025 26 Oleksandr Usyk (4)Heavyweight December 24, 2025 – May 4, 202627Naoya Inoue (3)Super bantamweightMay 4, 2026 – present

See also Boxing pound for pound rankings List of current world boxing champions List of fights between two The Ring pound for pound boxers List of IBF world champions List of The Ring pound for pound rankings (1990s) List of The Ring pound for pound rankings (2000s) List of The Ring pound for pound rankings (2010s) List of The Ring pound for pound rankings (2020s) List of The Ring world champions List of undisputed boxing champions List of WBA world champions List of WBC world champions List of WBO world champions

References

External links Official list of current The Ring champions The Ring Magazine's Annual Ratings