Rankings April 2023

Pound-For-Pound Men

1
Chingiz Allazov
ONE Championship
60-5 (37 KO's)
2
Superbon
ONE Championship
113-35 (27 KO's)
3
Sitthichai
ONE Championship
128-33 (39 KO's)
4
Petchpanomrung
GLORY Kickboxing
168-39 (27 KO's)
5
Kazuki Osaki
RISE
39-5 (19 KO's)
6
Marat Grigorian
ONE Championship
66-12 (34 KO's)
7
Artem Vakhitov
Muay Thai Factory
23-6 (8 KO's)
8
Rico Verhoeven
GLORY Kickboxing
60-10 (19 KO's)
9
Taito Gunji
K-1 Japan Group
22-5 (6 KO's)
10
Wei Rui
Wu Lin Feng
68-3 (26 KO's)

Pound-For-Pound Women

1
Tiffany Van Soest
2
Christina Breuer
1
3
Jorina Baars
1
4
Sarel De Jong
1
5
Martine Michieletto
1
6
KANA
1
7
Koyuki Miyazaki
1
8
Gloria Peritore
2
9
Li Mingrui
NR
10
Miyuu Sugawara
NR

Heavyweight (+95 kg)

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

Light Heavyweight (-95 kg)

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

Middleweight (-85 kg)

1
Donovan Wisse
2
Cesar Almeida
3
Serkan Ozcaglayan
4
Islam Murtazaev
5
Sergey Ponomarev
6
Ulric Bokeme
1
7
Sergej Braun
1
8
Michael Boapeah
NR
9
Khalid El Bakouri
10
Ertugrul Bayrak
4

Welterweight (-77 kg)

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

Lightweight (-71 kg)

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

Super Featherweight (-67.5 kg)

1
Petchpanomrung
2
Petchtanong
1
3
Hiroki Akimoto
1
4
Wei Rui
1
5
Kento Haraguchi
2
6
Rukiya Anpo
7
Tetsuya Yamato
1
8
Jia Aoqi
1
9
Chihiro Suzuki
NR
10
Taiju Shiratori
NR

Featherweight (-64 kg)

1
Yuki Yoza
2
Kongnapa
3
Taio Asahisa
4
Zhu Shuai
5
Jin Ying
6
Chadd Collins
1
7
Chan-Hyung Lee
1
8
Yuto Shinohara
1
9
Hiroki Kasahara
1
10
Kan Nakamura
NR

Super Bantamweight (-61 kg)

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

Bantamweight (-58 kg)

1
Taito Gunji
2
Haruto Yasumoto
NR
3
Toma Tanabe
1
4
Shoki Kaneda
1
5
Tatsuya Tsubakihara
1
6
Wang Junguang
1
7
Kyo Kawakami
2
8
Keisuke Monguchi
NR
9
Riku Morisaka
NR
10
Jonathan Di Bella

Super Flyweight (-55 kg)

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

Flyweight (-53 kg)

1
Kazuki Osaki
2
Kazane Nagai
3
Toma Kuroda
4
Ryu Hanaoka
5
Issei Ishii
6
Yodsila
NR
7
Jin Mandokoro
1
8
Koji Ikeda
1
9
Toki Tamaru
1
10
Ryuki Matsuda
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).