Many boxing tournaments took place in SA last year, but surprisingly only a handful of boxers are recognised by both the International Boxing Federation IBF and the World Boxing Organisation WBO in the top 15 brackets of their ratings in all 17 weight divisions.
These are the top two of the top four sanctioning bodies. The other two are the World Boxing Association WBA and the World Boxing Council WBC.
Only six local fighters feature in the IBF ratings and only four in the WBC one of them is Kevin Lerena, the only WBC champ from SA.
