Who do you trust the most when it comes to ranking fighters?

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  1. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    The Ring Magazine poll on best middles since WWII poll made me think as it was done in four groups. The Trainers, the Media people ( TV and Writing ), the Matchmakers / Promoters, and the Boxing Historians.

    So in the context of rating a fighter that you aren't very familiar with, which group would you trust the most?

    I would trust the trainers the least, as their lists are full of fighters they worked with or corners they beat.

    Not sure who I would trust the most.
     
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  2. Unforgiven

    Unforgiven VIP Member banned Full Member

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    mcvey
     
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  3. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    Ranked no better than 5th by any historian :)
     
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  4. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  5. McGrain

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    :rofl
     
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  6. The General

    The General Boxing Addict Full Member

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    ranking fighters from the past its too subjective to choose you posters rankings over another

    their is no right or wrong rankings
     
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  7. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  8. Wass1985

    Wass1985 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My own eyes....
     
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  9. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    It's true then, Americans don't get irony.:lol::patsch
     
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  10. Jpreisser

    Jpreisser Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Easy choice for me, IBRO.
     
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  11. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Which anyone willing to part with $63 can join.
     
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  12. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    Gilberto Mendoza

    and

    Jose Sulaiman

    but if I'm still undecided I go for

    Don King.
     
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  13. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    never trust anyone from the media especially when it comes to politics and sports

    everyone is biased but the least may be promoters. boxing historians are also very unreliable
     
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  14. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Don't trust a group. A group is full of fools. Trust a man.
     
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  15. salsanchezfan

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    Ranking fighters is nothing but a masturbatory exercise anyway. They're fun for the sake of fun and some fighters are obviously better than others, but trying to draw parallels between two different guys who fought different sets of fights in perhaps different eras under different conditions and decide which one really brought more to the table by re-setting each of them to some mythical "zero" point is really kind of pointless.
     
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