Zhan Kossobutskiy and More: Rating Up & Coming Heavyweights 11 to 50 in the World
Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Who are the best up and coming heavyweight prospects in the world, who we would rate numbers eleven through fifty after the top 10 fighters are eliminated from the list?
In order for a boxing expert to accurately rate the best up and coming numbers 11 through 50 in the world heavyweight prospects, several rules have to take place by the process of elimination: one, the top ten heavyweights in the world must be established. Two, all veterans and pretenders must be eliminated. Three, a list of 40 rising heavyweight contenders must be compiled, serious real comers who really want to win the world heavyweight title.
The top heavyweights in the world today are: Andy Ruiz Jr., Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder, Dillian Whyte, Oleksandr Usyk, Michael Hunter, Alexander Povetkin, Jarrell Miller, Luis Ortiz, Kubrat Pulev, and Adam Kownacki. There are a more than ten names here, but these names are the current heavy hitters at the top of the heavyweight division. Dereck Chisora (who wants to fight Usyk), Joseph Parker, Oscar Rivas, Charles Martin, Hughie Fury, Christian Hammer, Gerald Washington, and Robert Helenius round out the top 20. For better or for worse, these are the biggest heavyweight names out there right now. These names are not prospects. The prospects below must eventually challenge them to rise to the top. They are numbered 11 to 50, as they are yet top 10 contenders.
Forty Up and Coming Heavyweight Prospects Ranked from Number 11 to Number 50
(ranked just behind the names atop of the heavyweight pack given above)
Eleven: Evgeny Romanov, 14-0, 10 knockouts, Volgograd, Russian Federation
Twelve: Joe Joyce, 12-0, nine knockouts, Putney, London, United Kingdom
Thirteen: Efe Ajagba, 11-0, nine knockouts, Stafford, Texas by way of Nigeria
The most dangerous heavyweight prospect in the world today. The next Mike Tyson.
Fourteen: Daniel Dubois, 13-0, 12 knockouts, Greenwich. London, United Kingdom
Daniel Dubois is Brizel’s personal favored prospect to become a world champion in 2023
The World Boxing Organization Asia Pacific and OPBF heavyweight champion, Kyotaro Fujimoto, will face Daniel Dubois for the vacant World Boxing Council WBC Silver and Dubois’ World Boxing Organization International Heavyweight title at Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, United Kingdom, on December 21, 2019
Fifteen: Agit Kabayel, 19-0, 13 knockouts, Bochum, Nordheim-Westfalen, Germany
Agit Kabayel is the European EBU Heavyweight champion
Sixteen: Simon Kean, 17-1, sixteen knockouts, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Kean, Canada’s best prospect, will fight ex-world heavyweight champion Sergei Liakhovich at Bell Centre Montreal, Canada, December 7, 2019, in a critical prospect’s test
Seventeen: Peter Milas, 15-0 with 11 knockouts, Split, Croatia
Eighteen: Martin Bakole, 15-0, 12 knockouts, Airedrie, Scotland, by way of The Congo
Nineteen: Tony Yoka, 7-0 with six knockouts, Paris, France.
Tony Yoka is the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Super Heavyweight Olympic Gold Medalist, and Brizel’s second favorite prospect to win a world heavyweight title in 2023
Twenty: Sergei Kuzmin, 15-1, 11 knockouts, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Twenty-One: Zhilei Zhang, 20-0, 16 kockouts, Las Vegas, Nevada by way of China
Reader’s Note: Kuzmin fights Zhang at Casino de Monte Carlo Salle Medecin, Monte Carlo, Monaco, on November 30, 2020. One serious prospect will emerge the winner.
Twenty-Two: Lucasz Rozanski, 11-0, 10 knockouts, Rzeszow, Poland
Lucasz Rozanski is the current Republic of Poland Heavyweight champion.
According to Brizel, Rozanski is an up and coming prospect to watch in 2021 and 2022.
Twenty-Three: Ali Eren Demirezen, 11-1, 10 knockouts, Hamburg, Germany, via Turkey
Demirizen lost a 10 rounder to Efe Ajagba, who is most dangerous prospect in the world.
Still an extraordinary credible performance by Demirizen, who will be back strong in 2020.
Twenty-Four: Mladen Miljas, 12-0, 12 knockouts, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Miljas has knocked out every opponent in three rounds on less. Rocky Balboa watch out.
Twenty-Five: Alexander Frank, 18-0-1, 15 knockouts, Iserlohn, Germany
Alexander Frank is an obscure underestimated heavyweight, the lesser known Universal Boxing Organization World Heavyweight champion. Beware the unknown hungry fighter.
Twenty-Six: Otto Wallin, 20-1, 13 knockouts, Sundsvall, Sweden
His 12 rounds loss to Tyson Fury at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in September 2019 was a bloody nasty affair, causing 47 stitches to a cut above Tyson Fury’s right eye. You would not want to meet Wallin in a dark alley. Given Otto Wallin was not afraid of big bad lineal champion Tyson Fury, another big fight to prove himself should be on the horizon soon.
Twenty-Seven: Filip Hrgovic, 9-0, seven knockouts, Zagreb, Croatia
Hrgovic will fight veteran contender Eric Molina for the World Boxing Council International Heavyweight title at Diriyah Arena in Saudi Arabia on the Ruiz-Joshua II undercard and will rise in heavyweight prospect stock if wins.
Twenty-Eight: Tyrone Spring, 14-0, 13 knockouts, Miami, Florida by way of Suriname
Twenty-Nine: Frank Sanchez Faure, 14-0, 11 knockouts, Las Vegas, Nevada via Cuba.
Former Cuban amateur national champion, and winner of World Series of Boxing.
Thirty: Jermaine Franklin, 2-0 with 13 knockouts, Saginaw, Michigan. Local favorite.
Thirty-One: Umir Camkiran, 12-0, 11 knockouts, Istanbul, Turkey.
The EBU European External Heavyweight champion will defend his title against Mirko Tintor at the Halgun Alagas Sports Complex in Istanbul on November 24, 2019.
Thirty-Two: Ivan Dychko, 9-0 with nine knockouts, Kissimmee, Florida via Kazakhstan.
2012 Olympic Bronze Medalist lost to Anthony Joshua. A Brizel favorite to watch in 2021.
Thirty-Three: Junior Fa, 18-0 with 10 knockouts, Otahulu, New Zealand
The International Boxing Organization Oriental Heavyweight champion. A top prospect.
Thirty-Four: Roberto Alfonzo, 19-0-1, nine knockouts, Orlando, Florida via Havana, Cuba
2008 Olympian. Possible future world heavyweight champion if promoted correctly.
Thirty-Five: Zhan Kossobutskiy, 12-0, 11 knockouts, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
The greatest mystery of the heavyweight prospects, a dangerous rising dark horse.
Thirty-Six: Arslanbek ‘Lion’ Makhmudov, 9-0, nine knockouts, Montreal, Canada
A transplanted Russian who holds the North American Boxing Federation Heavyweight title, Makhmudov will defend his NABF Heavyweight title against former world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter at Bell Centre in Montreal on December 7, 2019.
Thirty-Seven: Kyotaro Fujimoto, 21-1, 13 knockouts, Tokyo, Japan
The World Boxing Organization Asia Pacific and OPBF heavyweight champion, Fujimoto will face Daniel Dubois for the vacant World Boxing Council WBC Silver and Dubois’ World Boxing Organization International Heavyweight title at Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, United Kingdom, on December 21, 2019. Fujimoto will have to prove he can defeat Brizel’s pick for future world heavyweight champion, Dubois. That Fujimoto fearlessly took this fight in enemy territory says a lot, and it means the bout is going to be extremely interesting. No Japanese fighter has ever risen to world heavyweight contender status, so Dubois versus Fujimoto is as close as you can get, given the two regional titles at stake. Given Kyotaro Fujimoto credit for guts. When Daniel Dubois knocks Kyotaro Fujimoto out, remember Brizel said so. Also, remember people have a long memory, and World War II ain’t over in England. Fujimoto will be loudly booed by naturally hostile British boxing fans as the only Japanese fighter to dare go over there and challenge a British titleholder. Dubois holds the WBO International Heavyweight title. Fujimoto would have to knock Dubois out, an impossibility. He’ll never get the scorecards in Great Britain. Expect Tyson Fury and Lennox Lewis to be at ringside.
Thirty-Eight: Raphael Tronche, 13-0, eight knockouts, Calais, France
Tronche is the French and IBO International Heavyweight champion. A good prospect.
Thirty-Nine: Vladyslav Sirenko, 13-0, 12 knockouts, Meyerton, South Africa via Ukraine
Sirenko is a former Ukranian National Youth amateur champion. Good prospect to watch.
Forty: Stephan ‘Big Shot’ Shaw, 12-0, nine knockouts, Saint Louis, Missouri
David McWaters prospect is a former USA and Police Athletic League National champion.
Forty-One: Shigabudin Aliev, 8-0, five knockouts, Kizilyurt, Russian Federation
Forty-Two and Forty-Three: The Morrison Brothers, sons of the late former World Boxing
Organization Heavyweight champion Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison
Trey Lippe Morrison, 16-0, 16 knockouts, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Trained by Freddie Roach.
James McKenzie Morrison, 17-0-2, 15 knockouts, Shawnee, Kansas
The Morrison brothers are members of the Holden Productions ‘Four State Franchise’.
Forty-Four: Cassius Chaney: 17-0, 11 knockouts, New London, Connecticut
Chaney will fight Nick Jones for the vacant World Boxing council WBC USNBC Silver Heavyweight title on November 27, 2019. Chaney could get a WBC world ranking.
Forty-Five: Darmani Rock, 17-0 with 12 knockouts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A former Police Athletic League and U.S. amateur superheavyweight champion.
Forty-Six: ‘Gentleman’ George Arias, 15-0, seven knockouts, Bronx, New York via D.R.
Forty-Seven: Herve Hubeaux, 31-3, 14 knockouts, Andenne, Belgium
Hubeaux, age 27, the Belgian heavyweight champion, lost decisions to Agit Kabayel and Oscar Rivas on foreign soil. Nonetheless, Herve Hubeaux still has great potential to rise.
Forty-Eight: Marcin Siwy, 20-0, eight knockouts, Czestochowa, Poland
Rising Polish prospect who is still an eight rounds fighter. Improving fighter to watch.
Forty-Nine: Ruslan Myrsatayev, 7-0, six knockouts, Miami, Florida via Kazakhstan
Myrsatayev was 2008 Olympian in Beijing, China, where he lost to local hero Zhilei Zhang.
Fifty (Tie) goes two rising southpaw Australian heavyweight prospects
Demsey McKean, 17-0, 11 kockouts, Ipswich, Australia
McKean is a former Australian heavyweight champion
Kris Tersievski, 8-0-1, seven knockouts, Melbourne, Australia
Tersievski will fight for the vacant Australian heavyweight championship against Faiga Olelu on November 22, 2019, at The Melboune Pavillion in Flemington, Australia
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