Terence Crawford (R) works his southpaw jab against Raymundo Beltran en route to earning a dominant unanimous decision and winning the vacant RING lightweight title in his native Omaha, Nebraska on Nov. 29, 2014. Photo by Chris Farina-Top Rank

Terence Crawford says he’s won’t be at lightweight much longer but however long the undefeated switch-hitter remains in the 135-pound division he will be recognized as THE RING champion thanks to his one-sided unanimous decision over Ray Beltran on Saturday.

Other RING-rated fighters were in action this past weekend and the results of their bouts caused changes in the heavyweight, middleweight, lightweight and featherweight rankings.

Heavyweight: Tyson Fury (23-0, 17 knockouts) scored a dominant win over unrated Dereck Chisora forcing the former title challenger’s corner to stop the fight at the end of the 10^th round. Fury will trade places with Kubrat Pulav (20-1, 11 KOs), who is coming off a fifth-round KO to champ Wladimir Klitschko, moving up to No. 3 with Pulev dropping one spot to No. 4.

Cruiserweight: No. 10-rated Rakhim Chakhkiev (21-1, 16 KOs) stopped unrated Jackson Junior in four rounds to maintain his position. No change.

Middleweight: Billy Joe Saunders (21-0, 1 KOs) won a 12-round split decision over Chris Eubank Jr. (18-1, 13 KOs). Saunders had to dig deep in the late rounds to eke out a close but deserved win. Saunders’ overall resume (the British southpaw has faced five undefeated boxers in his last seven bouts) is better than No. 10-rated Danny Jacobs (28-1, 25 KOs) thus Saunders will re-enter the rankings at No. 10 replacing Jacobs.

Junior welterweight: No. 4-rated Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KOs) had his way with faded former lightweight champ Jose Luis Castillo stopping the old lion in the fifth round. No movement.

Lightweight: Crawford (25-0, 17 KOs) won THE RING lightweight title and retained his WBO belt with a wide points win over Beltran (29-7-1, 17 KOs). Crawford will move up to our Champion. Omar Figueroa (24-0-1, 18 KOs) will move up to No. 1 and Beltran will remain at No. 2. Everyone else will move up a slot making way for Dierry Jean (27-1, 19 KOs) to re-enter at No. 10.

Photo by Naoki Fukuda

Featherweight: Evgendy Gradovich (19-0-1, 9 KOs) appeared to do enough in the second half of his IBF title defense against Jayson Velez (22-0-1, 16 KOs) to earn a win but he had to settle for a split-draw. Gradovich will remain at No. 5. Velez, who put forth the best performance of his career, will enter the rankings at No. 10, replacing Marvin Sonsona.

Junior bantamweight: No. 3-rated Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (30-4-1, 27 KOs) stopped Bobby Concepcion in three. No movement.

Chuck Giampa is the Chairman of the Ring Ratings Committee. He can be emailed at [email protected]