by Cliff Rold
Super Middleweight: Carl Froch, inactive for a year and with no fight scheduled, exits the top ten. Fingers are crossed for a proposed showdown with Middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin but it’s not delivered yet. James DeGale moves well up with a decision win over Andre Dirrell. Andre Dirrell enters as the tenth rated contender.
Jr. Welterweight: After two straight losses at Welterweight, Chris Algieri exits the top ten at 140 lbs. Veteran Humberto Soto enters the ratings.
Lightweight: Jorge Linares gets a big bump with his off-the-floor stoppage of Kevin Mitchell on the road. Ray Beltran, after failing a drug test and stating he’d be campaigning at 140, exits the top ten. Petr Petrov enters the top ten.
Jr. Lightweight: Javier Fortuna makes a move off his win over Bryan Vasquez.
Featherweight: Lee Selby, off a dominant win over Evgeny Gradovich, gets a sizable bump into the top five. Gradovich loses a spot.
Strawweight: Keeping the early pace of his career at a high clip, Kosei Tanaka wins his first belt and makes another creep up the top ten.
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Last ratings update: May 19, 2015
Cliff Rold is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene, a founding member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He can be reached at roldboxing@hotmail.com