Boxing’s heavyweight division is in the rudest of health as we move further into May 2025, and we have a definitive take on the current landscape in the fight game’s marquee weight class.
They call the title of world heavyweight champion the biggest prize in all of sports, and with fighters sometimes earning upwards of £50million for one fight, it certainly still delivers.
The title has been diluted somewhat in recent years by the fact there are about seven titles actually up for grabs in the heavyweight division alone, but we have you covered with the latest state of play. Here are the rankings from every key body in May 2025.
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Heavyweight Rankings – May 2025
There are four major sanctioning bodies, plus Ring magazine. They all have titles, and rankings – and here they are:
World Boxing Council (WBC)
Oleksandr Usyk (23-0) is the current king after defending successfully in that rematch vs Tyson Fury in December 2024:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| Interim | Agit Kabayel | GER |
| 1 | Lawrence Okolie | GBR |
| 2 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 3 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 4 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 5 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 6 | Frank Sanchez | CUB |
| 7 | Bakhodir Jalolov | UZB |
| 8 | Zhilei Zhang | CHN |
| 9 | Richard Torrez Jr | USA |
| 10 | Mourad Aliev | FRA |
| 11 | Deontay Wilder | USA |
| 12 | Andy Ruiz Jr | USA |
| 13 | Dereck Chisora | GBR |
| 14 | Jared Anderson | USA |
| 15 | Guido Vianello | ITA |
World Boxing Association (WBA)
Usyk again holds the belt here, retaining it with that second victory over Fury in December:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Super Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| Regular Champion | Kubrat Pulev | BUL |
| 1 | Fabio Wardley | GBR |
| 2 | Michael Hunter | USA |
| 3 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 4 | Jarrell Miller | USA |
| 5 | Lenier Pero | CUB |
| 6 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 7 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 8 | Mahmoud Charr | GER |
| 9 | Justis Huni | AUS |
| 10 | Deontae Pettigrew | USA |
| 11 | Nelson Hysa | ALB |
| 12 | Murat Gassiev | ARM |
| 13 | Johnny Fisher | GBR |
| 14 | Dainier Pero | CUB |
| 15 | Yoandy Toirac | CUB |
International Boxing Federation (IBF)
Daniel Dubois (22-2) is the IBF king after defending it with that devastating knockout of Anthony Joshua last September:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Daniel Dubois | GBR |
| 1 | Not Rated | – |
| 2 | Dereck Chisora | GBR |
| 3 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 4 | Frank Sanchez | CUB |
| 5 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 6 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 7 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 8 | Michael Hunter | USA |
| 9 | Richard Torrez Jr | USA |
| 10 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 11 | Jared Anderson | USA |
| 12 | Bakhodir Jalolov | UZB |
| 13 | Guido Vianello | ITA |
| 14 | Richard Riakporhe | GBR |
| 15 | Peter Kadiru | GER |
World Boxing Organisation (WBO)
Usyk holds the WBO belt, and again his latest defence was that rematch success vs Fury in Riyadh last December:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| Interim | Joseph Parker | NZL |
| 1 | Justis Huni | AUS |
| 2 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 3 | Fabio Wardley | GBR |
| 4 | Zhilei Zhang | CHN |
| 5 | Lawrence Okolie | GBR |
| 6 | Jared Anderson | USA |
| 7 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 8 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 9 | Dereck Chisora | GBR |
| 10 | Murat Gassiev | ARM |
| 11 | Nelson Hysa | ALB |
| 12 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 13 | Johnny Fisher | GBR |
| 14 | Otto Wallin | SWE |
| 15 | Richard Torrez Jr | USA |
Ring Magazine
Usyk is the Ring magazine champion and he retained the hallowed belt from the bible of boxing by defeating Fury for a second time:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| 1 | Tyson Fury | GBR |
| 2 | Daniel Dubois | GBR |
| 3 | Joseph Parker | NZL |
| 4 | Agit Kabayel | GER |
| 5 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 6 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 7 | Zhilei Zhang | CHN |
| 8 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 9 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 10 | Fabio Wardley | GBR |
Who is the lineal champion?
The lineal world heavyweight champion is ‘the man who beat the man’. It is currently Oleksandr Usyk – he won the mythical title by beating Usyk in their first fight in May 2024, and retained it in the rematch.
Undisputed heavyweight champion
Until May 2024 we had not had an undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis way back in 1999. But then Usyk ascended the top of the mountain by beating Fury in that Riyadh thriller. He had earlier unified all of the titles at cruiserweight.
Usyk will get a shot at becoming undisputed for a third time when he faces Daniel Dubois for all of the world heavyweight titles at London’s Wembley Stadium on Saturday July 19.
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