Shane Mosley falls out of pound for pound top 50 for first time in 15 years

Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor

Lowest ranking since 1996 for future Hall of Famer

39 year-old "Sugar" Shane Mosley has dropped from number 22 in the WBN P4P Rankings to number 56 after failing to win in his last three bouts. His latest defeat to Manny Pacquaio last week puts him at his lowest ranking since November 1996, when the then 19-0 prospect defeated Ramon Felix in Indio, California to break the top 50 for the first time.

The current WBN Top 50 as of 14/5/2011.

1. Manny Pacquaio (53-3-2) WBO Welterweight champion and WBC light-middleweight champion

2. Nonito Donaire (26-1) WBC and WBO bantamweight champion
3. Floyd Mayweather Jr (41-0)
4. Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1) WBA and WBO lightweight champion
5. Miguel Cotto (36-2-0) WBA "Super" light-middleweight champion
6. Sergio Martinez (47-2-2)
7. Wladimir Klitschko (55-3-0) WBO and IBF heavyweight champion
8. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (80-3-1) WBC flyweight champion
9. Chris John (44-0-2) WBA “super” world featherweight champion
10.Timothy Bradley (26-0) WBO light-welterweight champion
11.Giovani Segura (27-1-1) WBO and WBA “super” world light-flyweight champion
12.Vitali Klitschko (42-2-0) WBC heavyweight champion
13. Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2)
14. Amir Khan (24-1-0) WBA light-welterweight champion
15. Andre Ward (23-0) WBA “super” world super-middleweight champion
16. Carl Froch (27-1-0) WBC super-middleweight champion
17. Robert Guerrero (29-1-1) Interim WBA and WBO lightweight champion
18. Jean Pascal (26-1-1) WBC light-heavyweight champion
19. Zab Judah (41-6-0) IBF light-welterweight champion
20. Lucian Bute (28-0) IBF super-middleweight champion
21. Marco Huck (32-1-0) WBO cruiserweight champion
22. Victor Ortiz (29-2-2) WBC welterweight champion
23. Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0) IBF and WBA “super” world featherweight champion
24. David Haye (25-1-0) WBA heavyweight champion
25. Marcos Maidana (30-2)
26. Chad Dawson (29-1-0)
27. Fernando Montiel (44-3-2)
28. Juan Manuel Lopez (30-1)
29. Devon Alexander (21-1)
30. Jorge Arce (57-6-2) WBO super-bantamweight champion
31. Paul Williams (39-2-0)
32. Mikkel Kessler (43-2-0)
33. Tavoris Cloud (22-0) IBF light-heavyweight champion
34. Saul Alvarez (36-0-1) WBC light-middleweight champion
35. Andre Berto (27-1)
36. Toshiaki Nishioka (37-4-3) WBC super-bantamweight champion
37. Humberto Soto (54-7-2) WBC lightweight champion
38. Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3-0) WBC featherweight champion
39. Joseph Agbeko (28-2-0) IBF bantamweight champion
40. Robert Stieglitz (39-2-0) WBO super-middleweight champion
41. Wilfredo Vasquez Jr (20-0-1) WBO super-bantamweight champion
42. Viacheslav Senchenko (31-0) WBA welterweight champion
43. Andre Dirrell (19-1-0)
44. Cornelius Bundrage (30-4-0) IBF light-middleweight champion
45. Steve Cunningham (23-2-0) IBF cruiserweight champion
46. Vic Darchinyan (36-3-1) IBO bantamweight champion
47. Tomasz Adamek (43-1-0)
48. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (42-0-1)
49. Joan Guzman (31-0-1)
50. Felix Sturm (35-2-1) WBA "super" middleweight champion
56. Shane Mosley (46-7-1)

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