Rankings January 2023

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
GLORY Kickboxing
168-38 (27 KO's)
4
Sitthichai
ONE Championship
128-33 (39 KO's)
5
Kazuki Osaki
RISE
37-5 (18 KO's)
6
Artem Vakhitov
Muay Thai Factory
22-6 (8 KO's)
7
Marat Grigorian
ONE Championship
66-12 (34 KO's)
8
Rico Verhoeven
GLORY Kickboxing
60-10 (19 KO's)
9
Taito Gunji
NR
K-1 Japan Group
21-5 (6 KO's)
NR
10
Wei Rui
1
Wu Lin Feng
67-3 (26 KO's)
1

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
Levi Rigters
1
7
Guto Inocente
1
8
Rade Opačić
1
9
Nordine Mahieddine
1
10
Andrei Stoica
NR

Light Heavyweight (-95 kg)

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

Middleweight (-85 kg)

1
Donovan Wisse
2
Cesar Almeida
1
3
Serkan Ozcaglayan
1
4
Sher Mamazulunov
1
5
Sergey Ponomarev
1
6
Ertugrul Bayrak
1
7
Ulric Bokeme
1
8
Sergej Braun
1
9
Khalid El Bakouri
NR
10
Serdar Eroglu
NR

Welterweight (-77 kg)

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

Lightweight (-71 kg)

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

Super Featherweight (-67.5 kg)

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

Featherweight (-64 kg)

1
Yuki Yoza
2
Kongnapa
3
Taio Asahisa
4
Zhu Shuai
1
5
Jin Ying
1
6
Zheng Junfeng
7
Chadd Collins
NR
8
Chan-Hyung Lee
9
Yuto Shinohara
NR
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
9
Djany Fiorenti
10
Yang Ming

Bantamweight (-58 kg)

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

Super Flyweight (-55 kg)

1
Shiro
3
2
Masahiko Suzuki
1
3
Akihiro Kaneko
4
Masashi Kumura
5
Koki Osaki
1
6
Mutsuki Ebata
1
7
Akram Hamidi
8
Rui Ebata
9
Yugo Kato
NR
10
Koyata Yamada
NR

Flyweight (-53 kg)

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

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 retires from the sport, or expresses his intention to take an extended break they will still be ranked for one month, but removed after.
  • 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.

 


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).