Middleweight rankings, December 1987

Computed retroactively from today’s data and formula; not the lists as published then.

Boxerbook rating at the end of December 1987: 1. Sugar Ray Leonard, 2. Marvelous Marvin Hagler, 3. Thomas Hearns.

Boxerbook rating

11 boxers met the list thresholds at the end of the month. μ ± RD; arrows show the move since the end of November 1987. How it works

2396 ± 131–

2270 ± 103–

2217 ± 111–

2062 ± 139–

1944 ± 167–

1915 ± 118–

1868 ± 119–

1747 ± 140–

1695 ± 121–

1615 ± 127–

1313 ± 115–

Boxerbook’s archive of the publishers’ lists starts in 2026, so there are none for December 1987.