Yeah and they also say Jimmy Blevins was the 5th greatest heavyweight that ever lived. I don't know how their points system works but it's safe to say there are some holes in the formula.
Shane Mosley is ranked #8...Margarito #17...BoxRec rankings have always been full of ****. Cotto is easily top 10-15 P4P
It's a maths formula similar to how the calculate the ELO rankings for football (soccer). It's just a guide.
if you think that he is a top 10 boxer. You dont nothing about boxing. Mayweather Paquiao, Klitchko brothers, Juan Manuel Marquez, Amir Khan, Bradley, Ivan Calderon, Gamboa, Mosley, Bernard Hopkins, Paul Williams, Sergio Mora all are over Cotto without discussion. In this list you have 13, where is Cotto. After that Cotto shows yesterday that his part at an elite level of competition are over. He almost get knocked down by a light fist mediocre fighter. His eye war hurt and his face swollen all aorund no matter it was a little bit. When he get touch by Foreman he reverts to his old style and threw a flurrie of punches without any defense at all. His ass wll be swept by any good fighter today. To his credit im still thought that Cotto beats Andre Berto who is a over over over rated fighter.
When did Cotto nearly get knocked down? Ah to hell with it, on the basis of your P4P contenders mentioned i don't even want to engage you in any kind of discussion for fear i have some sort of breakdown.