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Ricky Burns into P4P Top 50 for the first time, Bute improves

Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor

1. Floyd Mayweather (42-0) WBC welterweight champion

2. Manny Pacquaio (53-3-2) WBO Welterweight champion
3. Nonito Donaire (27-1)
4. Wladimir Klitschko (56-3-0) WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight champion
5. Bernard Hopkins (52-5-3) WBC light-heavyweight champion
6. Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1) WBA and WBO lightweight champion
7. Amir Khan (26-1-0) WBA 'super' and IBF light-welterweight champion
8. Vitali Klitschko (43-2) WBC heavyweight champion
9. Sergio Martinez (48-2-2)
10. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (81-3-1) WBC flyweight champion
11. Lucian Bute (30-0) IBF super-middleweight champion (UP 2)
12. Miguel Cotto (36-2-0) WBA "Super" light-middleweight champion 
13. Carl Froch (28-1-0) WBC super-middleweight champion 
14. Chris John (45-0-2) WBA “super” world featherweight champion 
15. Timothy Bradley (27-0) WBO light-welterweight champion
16. Andre Ward (24-0) WBA “super” world super-middleweight champion
17. Giovani Segura (28-1-1) 
18. Andre Berto (28-1) IBF welterweight champion
19. Robert Guerrero (29-1-1)
20. Marco Huck (34-1-0) WBO cruiserweight champion
21. Fernando Montiel (46-3-2)
22. Mikkel Kessler (44-2)
23. Saul Alvarez (38-0-1) WBC light-middleweight champion
24. Devon Alexander (22-1) 
25. Marcos Maidana (30-2) WBA light-welterweight champion
26. Brandon Rios (28-0-1) WBA lightweight champion
27. Chad Dawson (30-1-1)
28. Felix Sturm (36-2-1) WBA 'super' middleweight champion
29. Juan Manuel Lopez (30-1)
30. Jorge Arce (57-6-2) WBO super-bantamweight champion
31. Paul Williams (40-2-0)
 32. Tavoris Cloud (22-0) IBF light-heavyweight champion
33. Yuriorkis Gamboa (21-0)
34. Humberto Soto (55-7-2) 
35. Anselmo Moreno (31-1-1) WBA 'super' bantamweight champion
36. Toshiaki Nishioka (37-4-3) WBC super-bantamweight champion
37. Erik Morales (52-7) WBC light-welterweight champion
38. Hernan Marquez (32-2) (WBA flyweight champion)
39. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1) WBC middleweight champion
40. Viacheslav Senchenko (31-0) WBA welterweight champion
41. Vic Darchinyan (36-3-1) IBO bantamweight champion
42. Antonio Tarver (29-6) IBO cruiserweight champion
43. Abner Mares (22-0-1) IBF bantamweight champion
44. Hugo Cazares (35-6-2) WBA super-flyweight champion
45. Ricky Burns (33-2) Interim WBO lightweight champion
46. Victor Ortiz (29-3-2)
47. Joan Guzman (30-0-1)
48. Alexander Povetkin  (22-0) WBA heavyweight champion
49. Marco Antonio Rubio (52-5-1)
50. Orlando Salido (36-11-2) WBO featherweight champion


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