Middleweight boxing: belts & next fights
Middleweight (160 lb): who holds each world title, the fights already booked, and who each boxer is likely to fight next. Each percentage is the chance of being the next opponent, not of winning.
Updated (UAE time) · 6 boxers
World titleholders by body
| WBA | Erislandy Lara🇺🇸 |
| WBC | Carlos Adames🇩🇴 |
| WBC (Interim) | Jesús Ramos (no page yet) |
| IBF | Aaron McKenna🇮🇪 |
| WBO | Denzel Bentley🇬🇧 |
| The Ring | Vacant |
From the Wikipedia list of current world boxing champions (checked 2 Oct 2026), with later changes from the linked news. Interim belts are labelled. A boxer named without a link has no NextSmash page yet.
Booked fights
No fights are officially booked for these boxers yet.
Boxers and likely next opponents
NextSmash list Titleholders first, then by the strength of their top next-opponent pick. This is not an official ranking. For rankings, see each body's own list.
| Aaron McKenna🇮🇪 21–0 · IBF middleweight · next: Denzel Bentley 70% |
| Denzel Bentley🇬🇧 22–3–1 · WBO middleweight · next: Aaron McKenna 70% |
| Erislandy Lara🇺🇸 32–3–3 · WBA middleweight · next: Tim Tszyu 70% |
| Carlos Adames🇩🇴 25–1–1 · WBC middleweight · next: Meiirim Nursultanov 55% |
| Meiirim Nursultanov🇰🇿 20–0 · No world title listed · next: Carlos Adames 55% |
| Chris Eubank Jr🇬🇧 35–4 · No world title listed · next: Edgar Berlanga 30% |
Rankings note: belts are labelled by the body that awards them (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO or The Ring). The order of boxers on these pages is a NextSmash list, not an official ranking.
Sources
Other divisions: Heavyweight · Cruiserweight · Light Heavyweight · Super Middleweight · Super Welterweight · Welterweight · Super Lightweight · Lightweight · Super Featherweight · Featherweight · Super Bantamweight · Women's Boxing