Can someone please explain Murat Gassiev's heavyweight ranking?

Pulev?

 

Half of the top ten just feels out of place tbh

 

Newsflash - orgs are ****.

 

He won a crap belt which gives him such a ranking so it's basically a loophole

 

It s not like he ranked no 1 in the world.

The Ring/TBRB have him at no 9.

 

WBA regular belt.

 

It's boxing.

You can move up the rankings the hard way by beating better ranked opposition, or you can do it the easy way by winning a **** belt or having your promoter slip someone a brown envelope.

 

Explanation:
He is only ranked by one governing body.

They have him ranked as no 1 behind Usyk.

To further explain he is ranked 1 behind Usyk and ahead of every other boxer.

That's about as simply as I can explain it.

Your welcome.

 

Somehow he is ranked 5th on BoxRec.....

 

I like Gassiev, but it would be better if he's fight more often. He should have a fight scheduled by now.

 

If you are talking about Boxrec, it is because they transfer points when jumping a weight 1 to 1, and he was a stellar cruiser.

If you are talking about WBA, it is because he beat Pulev, who is hypothetically their #2 man.

If you are talking about Ring Magazine....well...they are the bible of boxing and held up here as the gold standard of ratings, so, I guess they just see something in him.

Anyway, I love the guy and hope he holds onto the regular title until Usyk retires, and gets e-mailed a belt.

 

I think he has been crowded out. Thus far, Itauma won't answer his team's calls, and anyone else worth a damn and acceptable to the WBA at the same time, just fought, or has a fight coming up.

Still, even fighting Nelson Hysa or Danier Pero, both ranked top ten by the WBA but realistically terrible, would be better than not fighting at all, right?

 

Absolutely. Inactivity ruins a boxer.