Vitali Klitschko is the only Ukrainian finishing 2004 with the rank of world champion among professionals, where he also holds the top spot in the WBC rating. Overall, the outgoing year registered nine Ukrainians in the TOP lists of the planet's best boxers according to the four leading versions. \n \nAmong the elite of world boxing ratings, our promising heavyweights Taras Bidenko and Oleksandr Dmytrenko, who represent the German club "Universum," are already firmly holding their ground. Both boxers received high places in the WBO version rating. Bidenko occupies the 13th position, and Dmytrenko the 14th. \n \nVolodymyr Klitschko, who after his victory over Davarryl Williamson has not fought, has 13th places according to the WBC and WBA versions, and in the WBO he is fourth. \n \nUkrainian Oleksandr Gurov, who competes in the heavyweight division, has still not appeared in the TOP-15 boxers. Let us recall that at one time Gurov was among the cohort of the world's strongest boxers in his weight class. \n \nAlso rising in the register of the strongest in the super middleweight division is Dnipropetrovsk boxer Vitaliy Tsypko, who has not yet suffered a single defeat in the professional ring. In the TOP list according to the WBA version, Tsypko already occupies 9th place, and in the IBF he was given the eighth position. \n \nSerhiy Dzinziruk continues to steadily maintain his positions in the super welterweight division. According to the WBC version he is already 5th, in the WBA – ninth, in the WBO – first, and in the IBF – 14th. By the way, Dzinziruk is the only Ukrainian represented in all four leading ratings. \n \nIn the super middleweight division, Vyacheslav Senchenko managed to hold on to his 15th place according to the IBF version. \n \nAndriy Kotelnyk, who competes in the super featherweight category according to the WBA and WBO versions, remained in fifth positions. Volodymyr Sydorenko, who recently defended his title of Intercontinental champion according to the WBA version, in the "bantam" weight according to this organization's version is already fourth and holds the same position in the WBO. \n