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Joshua broke into the top 10 best boxers in the world

The new king of super heavyweight Anthony Joshua has made a significant breakthrough in computer independent rating portal “BoxRec”.

In the night from Saturday to Sunday Anthony Joshua in London at “Wembley” in the presence of 90 thousand fans prematurely stopped the Ukrainian veteran Vladimir Klitschko and become the new world champion in three versions (IBF, IBO and WBA).

This victory was for Joshua’s 19th in his career, each of his fights Olympic champion in 2012 finished with a knockout.

In the ranking of the best boxers in the world regardless of weight class Joshua progressed in the sixth row. In addition to Anthony in the top 10 several more unbeaten boxers Terence Crawford, Gennady Golovkin, Andre ward and Keith Thurman, but only on a heavyweight 100% rate of knockouts.

Ukrainian world champion in the second Featherweight champion of the WBO Vasyl Lomachenko continues to occupy fourth place. Alexander Usik is the 16th, Viktor Postol – 32, Wladimir Klitschko is 37.

Top 10 ranking BoxRec:

1. Saul Alvarez, Mexico, average weight – 1353 points
2. Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines Welterweight – 1055
3. Terence Crawford, United States, the first Welterweight – 870
4. Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukraine, the second Featherweight – 790
5. Gennady Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, average weight – 738
6. Anthony Joshua, Britain, heavyweight – 705
7. Shinsuke Yamanaka, Japan, Bantamweight – 656
8. Keith Thurman, USA, Welterweight – 629
9. Andre ward, United States, light heavyweight – 629
10. Sergey Kovalev, Russia, light heavyweight – 612

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