A points ranking system to legitimise boxing rankings and championships!!

Sorry! Arreola's high because he and Mitchell have had 1 fight graded, but all other heavyweights have had 0 fights graded. Starting out is tricky. I found it wasn't possible to start from an earlier date, so with starting from scratch the rankings won't be purely reflective of the criteria of the system for up to three years. I tried to reduce movement by assigning 'handicapped points' to start, but in the early stages there will still be larger movement in the rankings than deserved when a ranked fighter beats another ranked fighter. When all ranked fighters have even two fights I think it will be pretty accurate though. Considering this drawback, I probably shouldn't have announced the new updates...

 

There's lots of matchups between ranked fighters before the end of the year, and the rankings will become clearer with every fight. Exciting times for the fairest objective rankings around!

http://www.worldboxingrankings.proboards.com/

 

Too many uninformed people have insisted to me on other threads that the boxrec ranking system is good enough, but in fact the criteria the boxrec system uses is so unfair that their rankings don't accurately reflect accomplishments and aren't a viable objective rankings system.

That Chavez earned a number 6 rankings at light heavyweight after beating Vera indicates that boxrec's rankings are worthless. There are other smaller aspects of boxrec's criteria that prove their system unfair, but that a fighter is only ranked in one division is the fatal flaw of their system...

It makes no sense that boxrec allows a fighter to carry his points to a new division. The amount currently removed when a fighter moves to another division is miniscule and inconsequential. But even removing 50% wouldn't be sufficient. Divisional rankings should measure a fighter's accomplishments strictly in a particular division. The boxrec rankings measure a fighter's total accomplishments regardless of division, merely slotted into the division he last fought in. But if a fighter fights at a new division he should have to start from scratch, and giving him a handicap is unfair to fighters who have consistently competeted in the division. Ranking fighters in every division they compete in till they're deemed inactive in a division is the only fair solution.

Further, if success in a division means anything, it's to determine who deserves to compete for a single, lineal championship. That the boxrec rankings don't recognise single champions as the goal and purpose of dividional rankings makes their rankings a meaningless, masturbatory exercise.

It's unfortunate boxrec's system isn't fairer, because objective rankings are exactly what's needed to legitimise lineal championships, and an unofficial records keeper is in a better position than a group of power-hungry journalists like the TBRB to actually have a positive impact on political reform of the sport.

http://worldboxingrankings.proboards.com/