BBC P4P Rankings - Joke!

Winky, Margarito and Hatton don't belong on that list.

 

Yeah I can't see why the win over Cintron gets him in. A good result, but Cintron was nowhere near a top 10 P4P candidate.

Calderon should be in the mix somewhere.

Winky....I don't understand that at all.:huh

 

Here's mine, dont think top 3 need to be explained but the rest might...

1] Floyd Mayweather
2] Manny Pacquiao
3] Joe Calzaghe

4] Israel Vazquez
I had Raf Marquez as my number 5 behind Juan Manuel Marquez who was number 4 before Vazquez beat Raf. As a result Vazquez jumps to number 4 as linear super bantam champ.

5] Miguel Cotto
Still undefeated and wins over Mosley, Judah, Urkal and Quintana at welter. Two weight world champ but it’s the '0' on the record and his CV which puts him this high up.

6] Juan Manuel Marquez
Slim loss to Pacquiao drops him to six. Coming towards end of career though so only really likely to fall down my list from now on.

7] Kelly Pavlik
Linear middleweight champion, two impressive performances over Jermaine Taylor (previous linear champ) as well as a good win over Miranda. Best of a mediocre middleweight division but undefeated linear champion so deserves to be in top ten.

8] Rafael Marquez
Two defeates to Israel Vazquez on the bounce drops him to 8

9] Ricky Hatton
I had Ricky at number 6 before defeat to Mayweather. Manner of loss and performance of others have made him drop 3 places. A win over any decent light-welter would be enough for him to leap frog both Marquezs and Pavlik. Still Linear champ at lightwelter and also a former two weight world champ

10] Ivan Calderon
Second defence of his light-flyweight title ending in a wide points decision is enough to sneak him into top ten at expense of B-Hop.

Honourable mentions for Hopkins who just dropped out, Winky Wright who is no longer in through inactivity (having not fought since July 2007 and there appearing to be no sign of him fighting again soon - wtf are the BBC playing at there!!?), Shane Mosley after defeat to Cotto, Roy Jones Junior who is climbing up again slowly having dropped off my list after his second loss to Tarver and Wladimir Klitschko (but the fact he has been beaten 3 times in a bad heavyweight division means he doesn’t make my list - it would be a struggle for him to get on the list with the wealth of talent in other divisions in my humble opinion).

 

Winky was the #2 before he lost to Hopkins....... So he loses a close UD and he's off the list??atsch

 

I have me:

1. -
2. Cotto
3,4,5. Mayweather Jr., Pacquiao, JM Marquez
6. Vazquez
7. R Marquez
8. Calzaghe
9. winner of Munoz v. Mijares
10. Haye

 

I agree with the top 5. The bottom 5 looks like something they picked out of a hat.

 

HUH?

 

its just one reporter sitting at a desk who made this up, who most probably is a football or cricket reporter and was asked to do this on the back of a *** packet.

 

calderon gets no love because the writer of this whole thjing probably has never seen a fight at 108

 

:good Too true.

 

Your right I suppose, but surely the BBC has at least one reporter who knows his boxing. Its a massive shame that they cant sort it out given that in general they offer the best sporting coverage available

 

bbc used to be the place for boxing.

i grew up watching grandastand and sportsnight with harry carpenter the bbc boxing man.

since those days the bbc has had no real boxing identity.

i read the reports of ceefax about boxing and they are just copied and pasted reuters reports mistakes and all.

the ammounts of times i read ceefax pages when they even get the weightclasses of the fighters wrong shows it is done by the bbc teaboys.

 

I've never really managed to see much boxing on BBC, other than the odd fights (Haye v Thompson springs to mind) but ITV Fight Night used to be good! Best theme music ever too!

BBC needs to sort it out, if Setanta can do then surely BBC can too!