Ghana’s Richard Commey has moved to 1st in the lightweight division in the latest International Boxing Federation (IBF) rankings for the month of April.
Commey last month was ranked 3rd, but this time he has moved two places up.
Last March, he stopped Alejandro Luna in round six in an IBF World lightweight eliminator.
Commey has now gotten the opportunity to face IBF World lightweight champion Robert Easter Jr – their clash will be a rematch.
The duo fought in September 2016 for the then vacant IBF lightweight belt, but Easter won via controversial split decision.
Below are IBF’s top 15 rated lightweight boxers in the world
1 Richard Commey – Ghana
2 NOT RATED
3 Edis Tatli – Finland
4 Masayoshi Nakatani – Japan
5 Roman Andreev – Russian Federation
6 Ryan Martin – United States
7 Kazuhiro Nishitani – Japan
8 Mario Barrios – United States
9 Isa Chaniev – Russian Federation
10 Anthony Crolla – England
11 Ismael Barroso – Venezuela
12 Antonio Lozada Jr – Mexico
13 Xiangxiang Sun – China
14 Daud Yordan – Indonesia
15 Francesco Patera – Belgium