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NEW YORK (January 8, 2021)–In 2020, Split-T Management continued to reign supreme as the top management company in boxing.
With nearly 70 top fighters under contract, the New York based outfit headed by David McWater, continued to produce the best fighters in the sport culminating in the undisputed Lightweight World Champion Teofimo Lopez winning both The Ring Magazine and The Athletic’s 2020 Fighter of the Year award.
While 2020 saw only 13% of the total number of fights it had seen in 2019, Split-T outperformed the industry in featuring its fighters in 40% of the bouts it had participated in the year prior. Split-T Management fighters amassed a record of 44-6-1, winning four world titles and four more regional titles, with fights televised or streamed on all of the major boxing platforms such as ESPN/ESPN+, SHOWTIME, DAZN, NBC Sports and FOX.
Rankings go up on Mondays at Noon ET.
There are no ranked fights this coming week, and these rankings will sit stagnant through the end of 2020, with no new update on Dec. 28. So we’ll list the ranked fights coming until the next update on Jan. 4 instead of just what would be coming this week (which, again, is nothing):
Lightweight: (5) Luke Campbell vs (9) Ryan Garcia, Jan. 2
Junior Bantamweight: (4) Kazuto Ioka vs Kosei Tanaka, Dec. 31
Flyweight: (1) Kosei Tanaka vs Kazuto Ioka, Dec. 31 [junior bantamweight]
Junior Flyweight: (4) Felix Alvarado vs (8) DeeJay Kriel, Jan. 2
Happy holidays from the rankings page!
Notes: Hunter got active with an easy win over a club fighter on Friday in Texas, it means nothing but changes his record a bit. The bigger heavyweight news of the week is that Povetkin-Whyte 2 won’t be happening on Jan. 30 as intended, and if I were hazarding a guess I am! there’s a decent chance it’s not happening at all. Whyte won’t want to just sit ar