Finally got this months Ring magazine yesterday, had been delayed in the UK due to weather conditions I'm lead to believe. Anyway, I'd been looking forward to reading the top 100, as I always do, only to read and find Antonio Margarito, Josh Clottey and even I think Alfredo Angulo and Andreas Kotelnik ahead of David Haye? Now I don't mind originality when it comes to someones boxer ratings, as long as it can be explained. But that just seems utterly crazy to me! Given I couldn't see any threads on this, I wanted to know do you guys; Agree with this? Expect it from the Ring? Cant be arsed discussing said topic?
He's posted the point for discussion, Posting a list of 100 fighters will degrade into a ****ing slanging match. In answer to OP. It's ****ing ridiculous Clottey and Margarito are ahead of Haye, come on man thats a joke I agree. thing is the ring ratings have been suspect for a while now, certainly since fishnets took it over anyway.
Why don't you cheapskate ***gits just by the damn magazine instead of pressuring this poor **** for the list? Having Haye below these clowns is utterly ridiculous. Angulo? atsch The ring should be ashamed of themselves.
heey you, time to apologize last night you kept going on and on how old man hopkins was going to get destroyed and he won on 90% of the peoples cards.
I liked the Celestino Caballero write-up: "12. CELESTINO CABALLERO Last Year's Ranking: 8 Status Report: By the time you read this, Caballero will almost certainly have punched the living daylights out of poor Jason Litzau, who is a nice kid with a good story but with neither the chin nor the smarts to last a full 36 minutes with a killer like Caballero. It will be Caballero's second win of 2010; his pummeling of tough Daud Yordan (W12) had the HBO broadcast team crying for the referee to stop it shortly after the playing of the national anthems. The guy's a beast. We just wish he'd fight a little more frequently. Future: There was some talk a while back about Caballero facing Juan Manuel Lopez or Yuriorkis Gamboa. Forget about it. He's too dangerous. We'd be almost as happy to see him against Orlando Salido or Daniel Ponce de Leon." EPIC FAIL
yep, the list is rubbish, because the mag is two months out of date half of the boxers are in places they shouldnt be. Anyway in referal to the TS question Margaritto, Angulo and Clottey have all fought better competition than Haye this year although I wouldnt personally rate them ahead of Haye. The only person Haye has to blame for being so low on the list is Haye himself for fighting has beens and bums such as Ruiz and harrison
Even if Haye has done ****ing nothing at heavyweight, he still deserves to be ranked above the likes of Kotelnik and Clottey. He was the best cruiserweight since Holyfield and those achievements count for something. He's only had a few fights at heavy and one was beating Valuev, so it's hardly like he's done nothing there, anyway.
I disagree, why reward someone who is basically taking as many easy options as possible, fleecing his fans and generally being bad for the sport. At least Clottey and Kotelnik stepped it up and fought decent opposition even if they were outclassed. By your reckoning we should still have Toney, Holyfield and Jones Jnr in the top ten from prior achievements as they are still registered boxers