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Itauma was number one in the heavyweight rankings. Joshua the tenth
World Boxing Organization (WBO) has published the heavyweight rankings as of December 2025 on its official website.
The undefeated British is in first place. Moses Ithauma He last entered the ring in August (13-0, 11 KOs), and won the WBO Inter-Continental belt by knocking out his compatriot Dillian Whyte.
Second place went to Filip Hrgovic (19-1, 14 KOs), who defeated Briton David Adeleye by unanimous decision in August. The representative of Croatia has the WBO International title. China’s Zhang Zhilei (27-3-1, 22 KOs) rounded out the top three.
A British heavyweight world champion Fabio Wardley The former holder of the interim belt (20-0-1, 19 KOs) was promoted after Oleksandr Usyk relinquished his WBO title.
The representative of Ukraine was excluded from the ranking because he had championship titles according to other versions (WBC, WBA, IBF).
Famous heavyweight Vladislav Sirenko (22-1, 19 KOs), ranked 14th, left the rankings. In his last fight, he suffered an unexpected defeat against Englishman Solomon Dacres.
World Boxing Organization rankings (WBO) heavyweight title:
- Champion: Fabio Wardley (Great Britain)
- Moses Ithauma (England)
- Filip Hrgovic (Croatia)
- Zhang Zhilei (China)
- Daniel Dubois (Great Britain)
- Jared Anderson (USA)
- Derek Chisora (Great Britain)
- Nelson Hisa (Albania)
- Bakhodir Jalolov (Uzbekistan)
- Richard Thores (USA)
- Anthony Joshua (Great Britain)
Source: Sport UA
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