If anyone remembers, last year I put together a P4P Top 25 list only consisting of fighters age 25 or younger. That was 16 months ago in September of 2017. This year I moved it to my Year in Review (YiR) series of articles and wrote two about it. The first was a look back at the names no longer on the list, whether it be because they aged out, failed in some way, or in one case just timed out due to inactivity.
That one can be found here:
Looking Back at Last Year's List
The updated list can be found here:
S8C P4P Top 25: 25 & Under Edition
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If you don't care about any of the write ups or reflections on how the list has changed and just want to argue about slotting and omissions, well then here is the new list itself
Ranking - Name - Record - Weight Class - Country - Age (Last Ranking)
25. Jack Catterall – 23-0, 12 KOs – Junior Welterweight – England – 25 (UR)
24. Ali Akhmedov – 13-0, 10 KOs – Light Heavyweight – Kazakhstan – 23 (UR)
23. Josh Kelly – 8-0, 6 KOs – Welterweights – England – 24 (UR)
22. Ryan Garcia – 17-0, 14 KOs – Junior Lightweight – USA – 20 (UR)
21. Diego De La Hoya – 21-0, 10 KOs – Super Bantamweight – USA – 24 (25)
20. Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov – 13-0, 10 KOs – Junior Lightweight – Tajikistan – 24 (UR)
19. Takuma Inoue – 13-0, 3 KOs – Bantamweight – Japan – 23 (UR)
18. Daigo Higa – 15-1, 15 KOs – Super Flyweight – Japan – 23 (10)
17. Cristofer Rosales – 28-4, 10 KOs – Flyweight – Nicaragua – 24 (UR)
16. Teofimo Lopez – 11-0, 9 KOs – Lightweight – USA – 21 (UR)
15. Joshua Buatsi – 9-0, 7 KOs – Light Heavyweight – England – 25 (UR)
14. Jaron Ennis – 22-0, 20 KOs – Welterweight – USA – 21 (UR)
13. Charlie Edwards – 14-1, 6 KOs – Flyweight – England – 25 (UR)
12. Ivan Baranchyk – 19-0, 12 KOs – Junior Welterweight – Belarus – 25 (UR)
11. Isaac Dogboe – 20-1, 14 KOs – Super Bantamweight – Ghana – 24 (20)
10. Hiroto Kyoguchi – 12-0, 9 KOs – Light Flyweight – Japan – 25 (UR)
9. Devin Haney – 20-0, 13 KOs – Lightweight – USA – 20 (UR)
8. David Benavidez – 20-0, 17 KOs – Super Middleweight – USA – 22 (8)
7. Luis Nery – 28-0, 22 KOs – Bantamweight – Mexico – 24 (6)
6. Emanuel Navarrete – 26-1, 22 KOs – Super Bantamweight – Mexico – 23 (UR)
5. Jaime Munguia – 31-0, 26 KOs – Junior Middleweight – Mexico – 22 (UR)
4. Murat Gassiev – 26-1, 19 KOs – Cruiserweight – Russia – 25 (4)
3. Kosei Tanaka – 12-0, 7 KOs – Flyweight – Japan – 23 (5)
2. Gervonta Davis – 20-0, 19 KOs – Junior Lightweight – USA (7)
1. Naoya Inoue – 17-0, 15 KOs – Bantamweight – Japan – 25 (1)