Boxing’s Baddest Woman on the Planet
The person at the top of the heavyweight mountain is generally regarded to be the No.1 man in boxing. Canelo may be P4P the best in the sport, but against the heavyweight king, or as Mike Tyson once called himself, “The Baddest Man on the Planet,” size rules, and the Mexican would have little chance against current heavyweight number one, Tyson Fury. Similarly, the best woman above welterweight is generally always regarded to be the world’s No.1 female boxer – she is the “Baddest Woman on the Planet.” Below, we list the top five women above 147lbs.
Our first list (a top 15) featuring the best women above 147lbs was published in February 2022.
1 Claressa Shields
2 Savannah Marshall
3 Franchon Crews Dezurn
4 Christina Hammer
5 Raquel Miller
UPDATES
* The Lineal Boxing Champion monthly ratings are produced by an international panel of 10 boxing analysts. Boxers are ranked according to ability and accomplishments in their respective weight classes. When our ratings began in April 2019 (the first non-computerised monthly rankings to have ever been produced in women’s boxing), fighters who had been inactive for 12 months, with still no fights scheduled, were removed from the ratings. As the 2020-21 pandemic severely interfered with the boxing schedule for approximately one year, it seems only fair to lengthen our inactivity rule to 24 months. By the middle of 2022, the inactivity rule will once again return to 12 months.
APRIL 2022
Super Middleweight
Franchon Crews Dezurn becomes the inaugural Lineal Super Middleweight Champion, following her 10-round unanimous decision victory over Elin cederroos on April 28th. Crews/Cederroos narrowly met our Championship Policy criteria for filling a divisional Championship vacancy, despite Christina Hammer being one place above Cederroos in our ratings – click here for more information about this. Sanna Turunen enters the super middleweight ratings at #5.
Heavyweight
Lani Daniels enters at #3 following her 6-round points win over Sequita Hemingway, in what was an all-New Zealand heavyweight tussle in Auckland. Hemingway exits the rankings.
P4P
Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano’s epic clash at Madison Square Garden elevated the stock of both women – Taylor becomes the P4P #1, Serrano climbs to #2, and former #1, Shields, drops to #3. Persoon falls to #8.
Ratings Panel
David Avila: 2019 Inductee IWBHF. Journalist at The Sweet Science. California, USA. @AvilaBoxing
Anthony Cocks: Journalist for Max Boxing, and previous contributions for Boxing Monthly. Australia. @el_pollo_loco
Daniel Yanofsky: Boxing journalist, including articles for The Sporting News and The Scrap. New York/Florida, USA. @DanYanofsky
Ireneusz Fryszkowski: Boxing Journalist. Poland. @RingBlogpl
Julian Haramoure: Boxing journalist, including articles for Argentina Amateur Deporte and ElRoundFinal.com. Argentina. @JulianFunky
Yuriko Miyata: Boxing journalist, including articles for The Ring and ThePrizeFighters.com. Japan. @Yuriyuri0803
GM Ross: Boxing journalist. Host of Pugilistically Inclined podcast. Canada. @punchingprof
Blanca Gutierrez: Creator of Beautiful Brawlers. 2019 Inductee IWBHF. 2018 Inductee WCBHOF. USA. @bbrawlersboxing
Inaky Arzate: Boxing journalist, including articles for TUDN. Mexico. @inaky_arzate
Adam McMeeking: Member of the International Boxing Research Organisation, and Editor of LinealBoxingChampion.com. United Kingdom. @LinealBoxChamp