Thailand flyweight drops a spot in busy weekend

There were major championship fights at both ends of the boxing spectrum this weekend but little change in my all-time top 100 boxer ranking.

Pongsaklek Wonjongkam of Thailand failed to get his WBC flyweight title back Saturday night, fighting Daisuke Naito of Japan to a draw.

Wonjongkam fell to 63-3-1 and is 2-1-1 against Naito. The draw caused Wonjongkam to fall one spot in my ranking to No. 92, trailing Ratanapol Sor Vorapin, the former IBF minimum weight champion, also of Thailand. Vorapin and Wonjonkam are the No. 2 and No. 3 highest ranked Thai fighters in history. Khaosai Galaxy is the all-time best at No. 31.

Here's the new No. 91-100 ranking.

Rank, fighter, years, country, points
90. Myung Woo Yuh, 1982-93, South Korea, 46.932
91. Ratanapol Sor Vorapin, 1990-07, Thailand, 46.792
92. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, 1994-07, Thailand, 46.763
93. Bob Montgomery, 1938-50, U.S., 46.653
94. Lou Ambers, 1932-41, U.S., 46.542
95. Sven Ottke, 1997-04, Germany, 46.465
96. Arthur Abraham, 2003-07, Germany, 46.436
97. Victor Galindez, 1969-80, Argentina, 46.395
98. Mickey Walker, 1919-35, U.S., 46.395
99. Orlando Canizales, 1984-99, U.S., 46.371
100. Jimmy Wilde, 1910-23, United Kingdom, 46.333

Also this weekend, David Haye knocked off Enzo Maccarinelli in the second round to add the WBO cruiserweight title to his WBA and WBC titles. He picked up valuable "unified title" points by picking up three of the top four belts and moved into the top 150 at No. 149. It may take him a bit to threaten the top 100 though. He's apparently moving up to heavyweight. I'll be interesting to see if he can add enough muscle to stand in with the 230-plussers today.

Speaking of heavyweights, Samuel Peter, the Nigerian Nightmare, TKO'd Oleg Maskaev to take one of the top belts away from an Eastern European. Peter is No. 2 on my list of the three heavyweight title holders at No. 130 all-time. Ruslan Chageav, while Wladimir Klitschko is No. 116.

Klitschko's recent win against Sultan Ibragimov clears things up a bit but Chageav apparently is going to fight Nikolay Valuev in a rematch, while Vitali Klitschko may get first crack at Peter.

Where Haye plays in, who knows. It'd be an actual event if Peter for Wladimir Klitschko again, but that will have to wait.