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Boxing News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Source: ghanacrusader.com

WBO Rankings: Dogboe, Habib retain positions, Duke Micah moves up

Dogboe has maintained his 2nd position in the WBO rankings Dogboe has maintained his 2nd position in the WBO rankings

Ghana’s Isaac Dogboe has maintained his 2nd position in the World Boxing Organisation rankings in the super bantamweight division for the month of December.

The Ghanaian last month was ranked number 2 by the sanction body.

The diminutive hard puncher will battle Cesar Juarez on January 6th for interim WBO world super bantamweight belt.

1 Cesar Juarez MEX

2 Isaac Dogboe (International) GHA

3 Nonito Donaire PHI

4 Diego De La Hoya (NABO) MEX

5 Marlon Tapales PHI

6 Juan Miguel Elorde (Asia-Pacific) PHI

7 Tomoki Kameda JPN

8 Jason Moloney AUST

9 Emanuel Navarrete MEX

10 Thomas Ward UK

Habib Ahmed is also unchanged in the latest edition of the rankings in the super middleweight division.

Ahmed last month was ranked 4th and he will be ending 2017 at the same position.

The James Town native will challenged Gilberto Ramirez for the latter’s WBO world super-middleweight strap. The fight will come off on February 3rd in USA.

1 Jesse Hart USA

2 Callum Smith UK

3 Rocky Fielding UK

4 Habib Ahmed (WBO Africa) GHA

5 Shefat Isufi (Int-Cont) SRB

6 Vijender Singh (Asia-Pacific) / (Oriental) IN

7 Roamer Alexis Angulo (Latino) COL

8 J’Leon Love USA

9 Erik Bazinyan CAN

10 Vincent Feigenbutz GER

For Duke Micah he has moved to the 7th position in the bantamweight division.

Micah last month was 9th but in the latest edition of the rankings he has moved two places up.

1 Omar Narvaes ARG

2 Daniel Lozano (Latino) USA

3 Juan Carlos Payano DR

4 Paul Butler UK

5 Emmanuel Rodriguez PR

6 Ryo Akaho JPN

7 Duke Micah GHA

8 Mzuvukile Magwaca SA

9 Lee Haskins UK

10 Hiroaki Teshigawara (Asia-Pacific) JPN