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World
and European Rankings News..by
Bernard O'Neill
(FEB 27) IRELAND'S Ken Egan, Scotland's Fundo Mhura and the England duo
of Frankie Gavin and Stephen Smith are the only boxers from Ireland and
Britain ranked in the top fifteen in the world in their respective
weight divisions as published by Boxing News.
Egan, from the Neilstown club in Dublin, is ranked at eleventh in the
light heavyweight category while Mhura is at eleventh in the
middleweight section, and lightweight Gavin and featherweight Smith are
both at fourteenth.
The table, published this month, makes for sobering reading ahead of
next Septembers Olympic qualifiers in Moscow as three Russians occupy
number one spot at flyweight,middleweight and light heavyweight.
Overall Russia have eighteen boxers ranked in the top fifteen in a wide
variety of weight categories.
However, Cuba have five boxers in pole position in the super
heavyweight, welterweight, featherweight, lightweight, and bantamweight
sections and have twenty nine boxers making the top fifteen across all
weight sections.
Cubas and Russia's dominance of the rankings see both countries command
forty seven positions from one hundred and sixty five places from light
flyweight to super heavyweight.
The Ukraine (heavyweight) Thailand (light welterweight) and China (light
flyweight) occupy the other number one spots.
The United States have five boxers making the rankings but with just one
boxer inside the top five.
Meanwhile, Egan is still at number four in the European rankings as
published by the influential website ABA Boxing.
The St Michael's Athy quartet of David Oliver Joyce (bantamweight) Eric
Donovan (featherweight) John Joe Joyce (lightweight) and Roy Sheahan
(welterweight) are in 20th,13th,19th, and 19th positions.
Middleweights Darren O'Neill from the Paulstown Club in Kilkenny, and
Darren Sutherland of the St Saviours OBA club are in 7th and 8th
positions.
Lightweight Katie Taylor occupies number one spot in the world rankings
on the ABA site while Allana Murphy of the Eastside club in Belfast has
moved up to number five in the light welterweight section.
Taylor also commands number one slot in the pound for pound category.
ABA Boxing rankings are published independently of International
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