Rankings December 2022

Pound-For-Pound Men

1
Superbon
ONE Championship
113-34 (27 KO's)
2
Chingiz Allazov
ONE Championship
59-5 (36 KO's)
3
Petchpanomrung
1
GLORY Kickboxing
168-38 (27 KO's)
1
4
Sitthichai
1
ONE Championship
128-33 (39 KO's)
1
5
Kazuki Osaki
2
RISE
37-5 (18 KO's)
2
6
Artem Vakhitov
3
Muay Thai Factory
22-6 (8 KO's)
3
7
Marat Grigorian
1
ONE Championship
66-12 (34 KO's)
1
8
Rico Verhoeven
2
GLORY Kickboxing
60-10 (19 KO's)
2
9
Wei Rui
Wu Lin Feng
67-3 (26 KO's)
10
Giorgio Petrosyan
ONE Championship
105-3 (42 KO's)

Pound-For-Pound Women

1
Tiffany Van Soest
2
Anissa Meksen
3
Christina Breuer
4
Jorina Baars
5
Sarel De Jong
6
Martine Michieletto
7
KANA
8
Koyuki Miyazaki
9
Kotomi
10
Gloria Peritore

Heavyweight (+95 kg)

1
Rico Verhoeven
2
Antonio Plazibat
3
Jamal Ben Saddik
4
Roman Kryklia
5
Benjamin Adegbuyi
6
Tarik Khbabez
7
Levi Rigters
8
Guto Inocente
9
Rade Opačić
1
10
Nordine Mahieddine
NR

Light Heavyweight (-95 kg)

1
Artem Vakhitov
2
Sergey Maslobojev
3
Luis Tavares
4
Donegi Abena
5
Felipe Micheletti
6
Stéphane Susperregui
7
Nikita Kozlov
8
Ibrahim El Bouni
9
Lukas Achterberg
10
Ariel Machado

Middleweight (-85 kg)

1
Donovan Wisse
2
Yousri Belgaroui
3
Cesar Almeida
4
Serkan Ozcaglayan
1
5
Sher Mamazulunov
1
6
Sergey Ponomarev
7
Ertugrul Bayrak
8
Ulric Bokeme
9
Sergej Braun
10
Aleksandr Dmitrenko

Welterweight (-77 kg)

1
Endy Semeleer
3
2
Regian Eersel
3
Alim Nabiev
2
4
Dmitry Menshikov
1
5
Jamie Bates
6
Harut Grigorian
7
Mohamed Mezouari
8
Mohamed Touchassie
9
Constantin Rusu
10
Jay Overmeer
NR

Lightweight (-71 kg)

1
Superbon
2
Chingiz Allazov
3
Sitthichai
4
Marat Grigorian
5
Giorgio Petrosyan
6
Tyjani Beztati
7
Tayfun Özcan
8
Stoyan Koprivlenski
9
Mohammed Boutasaa
10
Davit Kiria

Super Featherweight (-67.5 kg)

1
Petchpanomrung
2
Masaaki Noiri
1
3
Petchtanong
NR
4
Hiroki Akimoto
2
5
Wei Rui
1
6
Aleksei Ulianov
1
7
Rukiya Anpo
1
8
Tetsuya Yamato
1
9
Jia Aoqi
1
10
Kento Haraguchi
1

Featherweight (-64 kg)

1
Yuki Yoza
2
Kongnapa
3
Taio Asahisa
4
Jin Ying
5
Zhu Shuai
6
Zheng Junfeng
7
Koya Urabe
8
Chan-Hyung Lee
9
YA-MAN
10
Hiroki Kasahara

Super Bantamweight (-61 kg)

1
Leona Pettas
2
Hirotaka Asahisa
3
Hyuma Hitachi
4
Yuki Kasahara
5
Chihiro Nakajima
6
Tomoya Yokoyama
7
Huang Shuailu
8
Silviu Vitez
NR
9
Djany Fiorenti
1
10
Yang Ming

Bantamweight (-58 kg)

1
Taito Gunji
2
Toma Tanabe
3
Tatsuya Tsubakihara
4
Shuhei Kumura
5
Wang Junguang
6
Kompetch
7
Takahito Niimi
8
Kyo Kawakami
9
Jonathan Di Bella
10
Keisuke Monguchi

Super Flyweight (-55 kg)

1
Masahiko Suzuki
2
Akihiro Kaneko
3
Masashi Kumura
4
Shiro
5
Mutsuki Ebata
6
Koki Osaki
7
Akram Hamidi
8
Rui Ebata
9
Junki Sasaki
10
Riamu Sera

Flyweight (-53 kg)

1
Kazuki Osaki
2
Kazane Nagai
3
Toma Kuroda
4
Tsubasa Kaneko
5
Ryu Hanaoka
6
Issei Ishii
7
Koudai Hirayama
8
Jin Mandokoro
9
Koji Ikeda
10
Toki Tamaru

As Kickboxing continues to grow on a global scale with promotions like GLORY, K-1, ONE Championship, and more, fighters are constantly jockeying for position in the media's eyes (and rankings). Every month, Beyond Kick will compile Kickboxing rankings for each weight class from Heavyweight to Flyweight as well as the pound-for-pound for both men and women.

  1. Results. This is the most objective criterion and takes precedence over all others.
  2. Accomplishments. A fighter's accomplishments in the recent past can be a factor to determine his place in the ratings. That includes the quality of opposition.
  3. Performance. How a fighter performs in a victory or defeat can be a factor to determine his place in the ratings.

 

Disqualification Criteria & Guidelines

  • Fighters are ineligible for the rankings when they have been inactive for 18 or more months. Fights under Muay Thai rules don't count!
  • If a fighter officially retires from the sport, or expresses his intention to take an extended break they will still be ranked for one month, but removed after.
  • If a fighter switches sports, and it's uncertain whether he will return or he's retired, he will be removed after twelve months of inactivity.
  • Contenders active in two or more divisions may be removed from a division’s rankings after two consecutive bouts in another division; or after twelve months of inactivity in a division with no scheduled bout on the horizon.
  • Although close losses and poor wins may be reflected in the rankings, the Board will refrain from nullifying the official results.
  • To accommodate for promotions with different weight classes and catchweight fights, fighters are given a 0.5 KG allowance for every division up to Super Featherweight and a 1 KG one for Lightweight and above.

 


The Beyond Kick rankings are compiled by Kevin Strobel (Beyond Kickboxing), Ulysse Abdat (Beyond Kickboxing), Borna Pico (Beyond Kickboxing), Anthony Barry (Beyond Kickboxing), Zach Aittama (Combat Press), Lucas Bourdon (Au Bord Du Ring), Don Goodman (A Podcast about Kickboxing), John Pong (Through the Casual's Eye).