Does anyone else think The Ring magazine has been bias?

I don't always agree with you, but putting Ward in the top 10 is just silly. Completely biased. If Ward was Norwegian, he'd be circling the top 30. Look at Steve Cunningham - Nowhere near the top 20 in the Ring's 100, but to any fan with a brain, he is borderline top 10/15. If a fighter is not getting exposure in America, they are dead to these guys.

 

Skill-wise Ward is an obvious P4Pler but resume-wise not so I tend to agree with you. I doesn't make sense putting him #9. How did he overtake Segura who recently stopped Calderon even more impressively than the first time anyway?

 

They've always favoured American fighters massively.

 

yep,i do think it is biased and a bit incorrect in some instances,such as froch not being above bute or ward.

 

How's that rock you've been living under?

 

because he's black :bart

dont worry, its his turn to be exposed....just like their other hypejobs:deal

 

Thread title should have read 'does anyone think the ring magazine is NOT bias'

They have Andre Ward and Tim Bradley in their top 10 p4p FFS

 

this...^

 

Lucian Bute must be the most undeserving top10 P4P ever.

I can't remember anyone worse holding a spot on the list than him, to be honest.

 

How the hell does Bute have a better resume than Ward?? I like Bute, but Maghee, Brinkley, a post Ward Miranda, William Joppy, and F. Zuniga are not killers by any means.

Meanwhile, Ward beat Kessler (in a fight where he was the underdog), beat Allan Green (whom many on here said would KO Ward), made Dirrell run away, and beat Bika in a tough fight.

If you want to say are even the resume front, thats fine. But to suggest Bute has a "far better" resume is absurd.

 

He's not in their top 10.

 

Just, .

 

It is an American magazine for American readers covering the American market, some bias is inevitable, even in the world rankings. We are much bigger boxing fanboys than most writers and just a very few of them have the time and (re)sources to get all the Roman Gonzalez, Pongsaklek and Nishioka stuff, what they can do is covering Ward at ringside and watch him dismantling Kessler in dominating fashion, that must've been impressive up close.

Sometimes they throw a bone to the international media like Wonjongkam who almost lost to a nobody in his last defense and in April 2011 has no place in the 10 let alone at 6, and other times they look stupid as you can almost feel they wanna show how independent they are from Golden Boy, like not ranking Hopkins P4P "just because he's fights under Oscar" when he's EASILY top5, Winky, Tarver, close L to Calzaghe, Pavlik, Roy and arguably Pascal (coming off W/P4P Dawson), you can hardly show a better run in boxing today. But a P4P list will never be objective because the whole idea to rank fighters regardless of divisionsis somewhat subjective.

 

I stand corrected.

I thought I read the other day he was at #9.