By Victor Kanayo
Latest ranking has revealed that Nigerian-British born Anthony Joshua is now ahead of Tyson Fury.
This is as Fury is rated second to Joshua in the heavyweight category.
Also known as ‘Gypsy King’, Fury went crashing after he lost his WBC heavyweight title at the hands of Oleksandr Usyk in their undisputed clash last month in Saudi Arabia.
Having been previously ranked as champion, Fury has now fallen into the challenger pecking order and has been placed as the second-ranked heavyweight contender by the WBC.
On the other hand, Fury is below long-term British rival Joshua, who sits behind champion and conqueror Usyk.
Joshua has back-to-back impressive wins over Francis Ngannou and Otto Wallin under his belt, and may well compete for the vacant IBF title against Daniel Dubois in September.
In the ranking by the organisation, Zhilei Zhang sits in fourth after his huge knockout win over Deontay Wilder, while Efe Ajagba makes up the top five holding the WBC ‘silver’ trinket belt.
In the sixth position is Jared Anderson with Martin Bakole and Kabayel’s rival Sanchez ranked at number seventh and number eight.
For Joe Joyce he is placed on ninth, while rising star Bakhodir Jalolov completes the list on the top 10.
