Chuck Giampa
54 articles · The Ring
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Ring Ratings Upatde: Rigondeaux seizes RING 122-pound title
By Chuck Giampa
This was a relatively quiet week of boxing except for THE RING?s junior featherweight championship between Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux in New York, which was impressively won by the challenger, Rigondeaux.…
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Ring Ratings Update: Yaegashi wins RING flyweight title
By Chuck Giampa
There was a lot of recent title bout action on stacked cards held in Japan and Macau, which caused notable movement in THE RING?s lighter-weight rankings. A new RING flyweight champ was…
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Ring Ratings Update: Cloud drops, Mendez rises
By Chuck Giampa
There were numerous world-class boxers in action, internationally, last week, which resulted in movement in THE RING?s divisional ratings. The most notable change belonged to Tavoris Cloud, who drops in the light…
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Ring Ratings Update: Peterson returns to 140-pound rankings
By Chuck Giampa
A busy week of boxing resulted in some movement in THE RING?s divisional rankings, most notably IBF 140-pound titleholder Lamont Peterson?s return to the junior welterweight top 10. At heavyweight, Tony Thompson's…
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Ring Ratings Update: Frampton holds steady in rankings
By Chuck Giampa
There were not many high-profile fights last week, but there were some interesting matchups that are worth noting even though they brought no changes to THE RING?s divisional ratings. In the middleweight…
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Ring Ratings Update: Sturm drops in middleweight rankings
By Chuck Giampa
Former middleweight beltholder Felix Sturm dropped in THE RING?s 160-pound rankings after losing his second consecutive close decision, this time to previously unrated Sam Soliman, over the weekend. There was other notable…
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Ring Ratings Update: Big weekend, but no movement
By Chuck Giampa
Boxing fans were treated to a good weekend of boxing last week but it was a quiet weekend in terms of movement in THE RING?s divisional ratings. In the super middleweight division,…
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Ring Ratings Update: Japanese stars make moves
By Chuck Giampa
There was a lot of interesting input from our Ring Ratings Panel this week even though there wasn?t much activity over the weekend and most of it took place in the lighter-weight…
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Ring Ratings Update: Donaire ends banner year with bang
By Chuck Giampa
Nonito Donaire?s crushing third-round knockout of Jorge Arce in defense of his RING 122-pound title on Saturday capped a banner year that resulted in the emerging Filipino star?s advancement in the mythical…
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Ring Ratings Update: Mayweather is back at pound-for-pound No. 1
By Chuck Giampa
THE RING?s divisional ratings are compiled by the magazine?s Editorial Board with the participation of the Rating's Panel of boxing journalists from around the world. To see the complete list of our…
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Ring Ratings Update: Trout swims upstream in 154-pound rankings
By Chuck Giampa
Was this the final fight for Miguel Cotto? Austin Trout delivered an outstanding performance on his way to retaining his WBA ?regular? 154-pound title by defeating Miguel Cotto with a unanimous decision…
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Ring Ratings Update: Guerrero advances in welterweight rankings
By Chuck Giampa
The winner of the Robert Guerrero-Andre Berto fight was bound to break into the top five of THE RING?s welterweight rankings. Guerrero, a former featherweight and 130-pound titleholder, had earned a lower-top…
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Ring Ratings Update: Mares advances
By Chuck Giampa
Numerous RING-rated fighters were in action this past weekend, including heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko, undefeated light heavyweight titleholder Nathan Cleverly, unbeaten super middleweight Thomas Oousthuizen, heavyweight contender Robert Helenius and once-beaten flyweight…
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RING Ratings Update: Hoping for Donaire-Rigondeaux soon
By Chuck Giampa
Nonito Donaire won THE RING?s vacant junior featherweight championship with his 9th-round stoppage of Toshiaki Nishioka on Saturday. The highly regarded Japanese veteran, who was THE RING?s No. 1 rated 122 pounder…