Boxing is the healthiest its been in at least the past 15 years. UFC, on the other hand, feels like its peaked a bit already. It doesn't get...
Another point I'll make - I try never to hold the perceived quality of an era's division against its champion because it's often difficult to...
I know this isn't how everybody operates, but the way I tend to "rank" fighters as ATGs is by dividing boxing divisions into eras or generations...
You could have a long, involved discussion on where the Klits belong on the P4P ATG list, but I can't see any credible arguments for either of...
It'll probably take a number of purse bid fights to make it happen, but there are too many competing interests to let it stay that way forever....
So now Ring rankings don't count? OK.
His Ring ranking went UP from #8 to #3 following the fight.
Actually, in the eyes of most observers, he did deserve a high middleweight ranking. More accurately, he already had a high middleweight ranking...
Murray did more to justify a high middleweight ranking in "losing" to Martinez than most of the higher ranked middleweights did in winning....
Hahaha. Fair point. I'm thinking it was just a case of him having a hard time settling for a hamburger when he really deserved steak. The...
Still, the best case scenario is for Lara to go get ranked at middle. Challenge Geale, or Stevens, or even Rubio. Geale might turn him down, but...
Well, I hope you're right, because Lara is an impressive fighter at any weight. Just saying, don't be surprised to see threads pop up immediately...
Whoa. Just checked the Ring rankings. How did Geale get ranked so high?
Golovkin does need to beat Martinez. But there are a healthy number of people who believe Murray beat Martinez. And Murray today may be a better...
The fact that Floyd earned his stripes at lower weight classes should have made people more forgiving, not less forgiving. I couldn't believe how...
