Boxing News taking a big stance

Better is to start ranking from top 100, then easier is to get top 25 and after this top 10 ?

Yeah, rankings in sport, also in non combat sport usually requires some activity.
Like no one long years inactive still is ranked highly in moto sport, tennis etc.
Some orgs conserve achieved ranking points if athlete will come out of retirement, previous achievements will be taken in account for new ranking if athlete will be active again.
Some just keep exisiting rankings points when you are inactive, others compete during your inactivity timeframe and gets new points to add to their exisiting points. With such order athlete just drops in place in ranking cos others are active.

Ranking does have also a lot of non combat sports.

 

"Organizations do not rank belt holders in other organizations"

This is BY FAR the worst thing about the current ranking system. By ignoring the champions in the other sanctioning bodies you are basically giving them get out of jail free cards to continue cherry picking low hanging fruit in that organization and then claim you are legitimately defending against the best in the world. It's arguably one of the greatest scams in the history of sports.

The current system honestly wouldn't be that bad if it was something like:

-Super champion
-WBC champ #1
-WBA champ #2
-WBO champ #3
-IBF #4
-everyone else ranked from 5-10.

That way the sanctioning bodies can still make their money and promote the fighters they like, but they have to admit to the casual observer that their belt holder is still only the #1, #2, etc guy in the world and there's far less confusion. The belt holders would then feel more pressure to actually unify or take on the super champ--which would be a guy who presumably held all 4 belts and then gave them up when he was elevated to super status. There are so many ways they can go about this.

Or just bring back the old school lineal belt as the sole belt, but we all know that won't happen. But this is a temporary solution that would get more of the top boxers to actually fight. No more "interim" or "regular" nonsense. And no more having a guy ranked #6 fight a guy ranked #11 and the winner is somehow the #1 mandatory challenger after ignoring the 5 guys in front of them.

 

This also does work in am ranks.
I did not had saw am boxer or judoka inactive 25 months fighting for national am title, not alone at continental level championships because they need to be active and to get in high level tournaments guys should prove their recent credentials, be these lower ranked tournaments and like this.
No one inactive during 2 years KBer, boxer or wrestler I had ever saw at World Championship for example.

 

So, when Wilder-Fury gets postponed until October because Fury's team got Covid, and they are out 20 months, do you just strip Wilder of his #2 rating and remove him from the top 10 heavyweight ratings altogether, or do you remove Fury, who has been inactive just as long, too?

Or does Fury get a pass as champ, even though he is responsible for them having to go to an arbitrator and for the Covid delay?

LOL.

Great policy. Not dumb at all.

You guys AND Boxing News are going to have a lot of explaining to do in the coming months.

Glad you saved us from all the other ratings bodies.

 

They can't.
Athlete should ask to be ranked by pro boxing org and pay fees if boxing org belt in on the line in boxer's fight.
I do know enough boxers who had been ranked only by org A or org B or A and B, still not all of these : A,B,C,D etc.

Most sound example might be Vitaly and Wlad.

For example one gym I had used: no one from pro boxers had been ranked by WBA.
If they does not need, they does not ask to be ranked by org A or B or C.

 

Didn't Boxing News say one of the reasons they picked you guys was you included Fury, Joshua and Wilder in your ratings, but the sanctioning bodies didn't?

Oops.

 

Got it. So if the third fight gets postponed because of Team Fury's Covid and a new date or a new opponent isn't announced by October, that is when Wilder vanishes from the ratings.

Makes total sense. LOL