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Ranking Divisionales: Peso Junior Mediano

Check out my rankings within each division by clicking on the links below. If there is a lineal champion in a weight class, he is ranked No. 1.

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Note: Results through April 10. In an effort to provide the most up-to-date rankings, ESPN.com's division-by-division boxing rankings will be updated every Tuesday.

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Pesado - Crucero - Semicompleto - Súper mediano


Mediano - Junior mediano - Welter - Junior welter


Ligero - Junior ligero - Pluma - Junior pluma


Gallo - Junior gallo - Mosca - Junior mosca/Paja


JUNIOR MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (UP TO 154 POUNDS)

1. Canelo Alvarez (48-1-1)

Alvarez, the face of boxing in the post-Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao era and 2015 ESPN.com fighter of the year, won the lineal middleweight title by decision against Miguel Cotto in November 2015 in the most anticipated fight of the year other than Mayweather-Pacquiao. Alvarez returned May 7 (on Cinco de Mayo weekend) to open the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for his first defense and brutally knocked Amir Khan in the sixth round. Then all attention turned to whether Alvarez would face Gennady Golovkin next, but Alvarez dodged him and instead returned to junior middleweight and knocked out Liam Smith to win a belt in an action-packed, but one-sided fight before 51,240 at AT&T Stadium on Sept. 17 (Mexican Independence Day weekend). A Dec. 10 return was called off because Alvarez suffered a fractured right thumb against Smith but he will be back on HBO PPV on Cinco de Mayo weekend for a huge fight in Las Vegas against fellow Mexican star Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1) at a catch weight of 164.5 pounds.
Next: May 6 vs. Chavez

2. Jermall Charlo (25-0)
Houston's Charlo -- whose twin brother, Jermell, also holds a 154-pound world title -- listened to mandatory challenger Julian "J Rock" Williams trash-talk him for months. But when they finally met on Dec. 10, Charlo showed him who was boss as he dropped him three times in a fifth-round knockout victory. The right uppercut that Charlo dropped Williams with in the fifth round was one of the sweetest punches you will ever see. He vacated his belt and is going to move up to middleweight, where he should do very well.
Next: TBA

3. Erislandy Lara (24-2-2)
Lara, a former Cuban amateur standout, is a runner who usually stinks out his opponents and makes terrible fights. He has made five defenses against generally weak opposition, including the worst of them all on Jan. 13, when he destroyed semi-retired former titlist-turned-rabbi Yuri Foreman in the fourth round of a shameful mismatch.
Next: TBA

4. Demetrius Andrade (24-0)
In 2015, Andrade was stripped of a world title because of inactivity and his own poor business decisions, but looked outstanding in June 2016 on Showtime when, fighting for only the second time in two years, he dropped Willie Nelson four times in a dominating 12th-round knockout victory. On March 11, Andrade returned from a nine-month layoff by going to Germany as the mandatory challenger for secondary titlist Jack Culcay and outboxed him to claim a belt. He also became the mandatory challenger for titleholder Erislandy Lara (24-2-2).
Next: TBA

5. Jermell Charlo (28-0)
Houston's Charlo, twin brother of titleholder Jermall, got a shot at a vacant world title against John Jackson on the same May 2015 card on which his brother defended his belt. Jermell had all kinds of problems and was trailing 69-64 on all three scorecards going into the eighth round, when he rallied to suddenly stop Jackson. It was a shaky performance by Charlo, who nonetheless won a belt, making his brother and him the first twins to hold world titles in the same division at the same time. Next up is a mandatory defense against Charles Hatley (26-1-1), which has shuffled around but is set for the Shawn Porter-Andre Berto Showtime undercard.
Next: April 22 vs. Hatley

6. Austin Trout (30-3)
After back-to-back decision losses to Canelo Alvarez and Erislandy Lara, former titleholder Trout scored four wins in a row (three by knockout), all against decent opposition to land another title shot against Jermall Charlo on May 21. Trout was competitive all the way but lost a unanimous decision.
Next: TBA

7. Jarrett Hurd (20-0)
On Feb. 25, on the Deontay Wilder-Gerald Washington undercard, Hurd scored yet another impressive victory as he knocked out Tony Harrison in the ninth round to win the world title vacated a week earlier by Jermall Charlo.
Next: TBA

8. Julian Williams (22-1-1)
Philadelphia's "J Rock" dominated unknown Italian Marcello Matano en route to a seventh-round knockout in a title elimination bout on March 5 that made Williams the mandatory challenger for Jermall Charlo. When they met on Dec. 10, Williams -- who trash-talked Charlo for months -- was not up to the task. Charlo destroyed him with three hard knockdowns in a fifth-round knockout victory that surprised many who viewed the matchup as an even fight.
Next: TBA

9. Vanes Martirosyan (36-3-1)
In Martirosyan's first world title shot, he lost a decision to Demetrius Andrade for a vacant belt in 2013. In his second crack at a world title, on May 21, Martirosyan also lost a unanimous decision, this time to Erislandy Lara in a fight nearly as unwatchable as their first one, a 2012 title eliminator that ended in a ninth-round technical draw. After splitting with promoter Tom Brown and adviser Al Haymon, Martirosyan made the ill-advised move of signing with promoter Don King, whose fighters rarely fight. Martirosyan is supposed to face Ishe Smith (29-8) in an eliminator.
Next: TBA

10. Charles Hatley (26-1-1)
Dallas' Hatley scored his biggest win in his last fight, when he traveled to Australia in November and knocked out former titleholder Anthony Mundine in the 11th round of an upset. Hatley is the mandatory challenger for titleholder Jermell Charlo (28-0), and the overdue fight, which has hopped all over the calendar, is now set for Showtime on the Shawn Porter-Andre Berto undercard.
Next: April 22 vs. Charlo

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