Please let me know your thoughts. Middleweight is quite a difficult one to rank. I have raised Barker into the top 10. Does the loss to Martinez mean more than what others have done? DIVISIONAL RANKINGS This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected 2. Vitali Klitschko (WBC) 3. Alexander Povetkin 3. Tomasz Adamek 5. Robert Helenius 6. Chris Arreola 7. Eddie Chambers 8. Alexander Dimitrenko 9. Ruslan Chagaev 10. Tony Thompson 11. Odlanier Solis 12. Dennis Boystov 13. Bermane Stiverne This content is protected 15. Jean Marc Mormeck This content is protected This content is protected 1. Yoan Pablo Hernandez (IBF) 2. Steve Cunningham 3. Marco Huck (WBO) 4. Dennis Lebedev 5. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (WBC) 6. Troy Ross 7. Guillermo Jones (WBA) This content is protected 9. Antonio Tarver 10. Francisco Palacios 11. Alexander Frenkel 12. Steve Herelius 13. Giacobbe Fragomeni 14. Firat Arslan 15. 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Personally, I think Barker is a bit too highly ranked at 7. I'd have Proksa & probably N'dam N'jikam ahead of him. The Spada win was good and he was decent vs Martinez but them two performances don't quite put him ahead of them 2 for me. I agree about him just ahead of Lee so 9 for me would be a fair ranking. Some other changes I'd consider making; Helenius ahead of Chambers possibly Arreola too at Heavyweight. Wlodarcysk ahead of Ross at Cruiserweight; he has more wins of note. I personally have Khan now ahead of Bradley as no.1 at LWW. Barros ahead of Ponce at FW. And I know Fernando Montiel and Giovani Segura are new in their divisions but both are too lowly ranked IMO, especially Montiel. Maybe both could go up 1 or 2 places. Also JMM at light welterweight? I'm guessing he will be moved to welterweight after Pacquiao?
JFT have changed your fitrst few suggestions. Segura and Montiel stay where they are due to good fighters being ahead of them. All the guys above them have close losses at world level Marquez will go up after MP win or lose.
Fair enough I can see your logic. Especially looking again at Segura, his position is probably about right at the moment. Similar with Montiel though I'd personally have him ahead of Poonsowat at the min and maybe Lee too due to his previous success at bantam + a good stoppage win vs Cermeno. Suppose i'm just splitting hairs though
Moreno ahead of Darchinyan? Oh and Raul Garcia lost his title(unsurprisingly) to an unheralded(surprisingly) fighter, so he'd probably drop quite a few places.
Barker wins three rounds and gets knocked out and he gets a significant rise in the rankings. Utterly bizarre.