Pound for pound: The list will remain unchanged at least until fall
The top boxers in the world are on a hiatus.
No fighter on the Boxing Junkie pound-for-pound list is scheduled to fight until No. 7 Canelo Alvarez, the undisputed super middleweight champion, faces No. 13 Gennadiy Golovkin a third time on Sept. 17 in Las Vegas.
And No. 15 Shakur Stevenson will defend his junior lightweight titles against Robson Conceicao on Sept. 23.
Beyond that no pound-for-pounder has a fight set, although No. 1 Terence Crawford is expected to face No. 4 Errol Spence Jr. in October.
Here is what the list looks like at the moment:
BOXING JUNKIE
POUND-FOR-POUND
Terence Crawford – Reportedly in talks to face Errol Spence Jr. for the undisputed welterweight championship in October.
Naoya Inoue – No fight scheduled.
Oleksandr Usyk – Scheduled to defend his heavyweight titles in a rematch with Anthony Joshua on Aug. 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Errol Spence Jr. – Reportedly in talks to face Terence Crawford for the undisputed welterweight championship in October.
Tyson Fury – No fight scheduled.
Dmitry Bivol – No fight scheduled.
Canelo Alvarez– Scheduled to defend his undisputed super middleweight titles in a third fight with Gennadiy Golovkin on Sept. 17.
Vasiliy Lomachenko – Reportedly targeting October for his return to the ring.
Juan Francisco Estrada – No fight scheduled.
Jermell Charlo – Reportedly set to defend his junior middleweight titles against Tim Tszyu on Jan. 28 but no official announcement has been made.
Gervonta Davis – No fight scheduled.
Artur Beterbiev – No fight scheduled.
Gennadiy Golovkin – Scheduled to face undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez a third time on Sept. 17.
Jermall Charlo – Expected to defend his middleweight title against Maciej Sulecki but no date has been announced.
Shakur Stevenson – Scheduled to defend his junior lightweight titles against Robson Conceicao on Sept. 23 in Newark, N.J.
Honorable mention (alphabetical order): David Benavidez (no fight scheduled); Stephen Fulton Jr. (no fight scheduled); Roman Gonzalez (no fight scheduled); Devin Haney (no fight scheduled); Josh Taylor (no fight scheduled).