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Lucian Bute breaks P4P Top 20

Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor

1. Manny Pacquaio (52-3-2) WBO Welterweight champion and WBC light-middleweight champion

2. Floyd Mayweather Jr (41-0)
3. Nonito Donaire (26-1) WBC and WBO bantamweight champion
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 (77-3-1) (Thailand) WBC flyweight champion
9. Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0) WBO featherweight champion
10. Chris John (44-0-2) WBA “super” world featherweight champion
11.Timothy Bradley (26-0) WBO light-welterweight 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. Giovani Segura (26-1-1) WBO and WBA “super” world light-flyweight 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. Shane Mosley (46-6-1)
22. Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0) IBF and WBA “super” world featherweight champion
23. David Haye (25-1-0) WBA heavyweight champion
24. Marco Huck (31-1-0) WBO cruiserweight champion
25. Chad Dawson (29-1-0)
26. Robert Guerrero (28-1-1)
27. Andre Berto (27-0) WBC welterweight champion
28. Fernando Montiel (44-3-2)
29. Devon Alexander (21-0) WBC light-welterweight champion
30. Marcos Maidana (29-2)
31. Paul Williams (39-2-0)
32. Mikkel Kessler (43-2-0)
33. Tavoris Cloud (22-0) IBF light-heavyweight champion
34. Michael Katsidis (27-3-0)
35. Saul Alvarez (36-0-1) WBC light-middleweight champion
36. Humberto Soto (54-7-2) WBC lightweight champion
37. Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3-0) WBC featherweight champion
38. Joseph Agbeko (28-2-0) IBF bantamweight champion
39. Robert Stieglitz (39-2-0) WBO super-middleweight champion
40. Wilfredo Vasquez Jr (20-0-1) WBO super-bantamweight champion
41. Viacheslav Senchenko (31-0) WBA welterweight champion
42. Toshiaki Nishioka (37-4-3) WBC super-bantamweight 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. Abner Mares (21-0-1)
47. Tomasz Adamek (43-1-0)
48. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (42-0-1)
49. Joan Guzman (31-0-1)
50. Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0) WBO light-middleweight champion


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