Very old news, but I'd honestly never seen this before, I just stumbled across it. I guess in some ways it shows what a mess the WBO used to be. Article from Bunce: "Morris, who was 32, died last October after a meningitis attack and had been inactive since July 1999 when he beat someone called Dave McCluskey, who had entered the ring having lost 60 of his 75 fights. The victory improved Morris's record to 28 wins, two defeats and one draw. When Morris died he was No 7 in the WBO's rankings, having made an amazing appearance at No 10 in July 2000, a year after his last fight, and his name had been mentioned as a potential future opponent for the WBO champion, Joe Calzaghe. However, the Detroit fighter's prospects bizarrely improved when he died and in the December ratings he had progressed to No 6. Just two weeks ago the long-dead fighter edged even closer to a showdown against the Welshman Calzaghe when he appeared at No 5 in the WBO's latest ratings." This content is protected Are there any other bad rankings like this out there from the boxing boards people can think of?
to be honest more is made of this than it should. In reality nobody informed the WBO so what are they going to do.
