I need help understanding Boxing Rankings

They all make the rules up as they go along.

They put certain boxers in particular positions depending on which bouts they have lined up, so that the bouts are merited and can be marketed in a certain way.

It all comes back to money, it is not a meritocratic system obviously.

Mark de Mori is ranked something like 8 with WBA after having beaten several men called Laszlo.

 

It’s all about money. All you need to know is who will bring the largest purse. WBC for example takes a percentage of purse. So their best interest is to rank the fighter that can fatten their bottom line.

 

They are best ignored. I only look at them now when I want a laugh.

If you are looking for a purely objective resume based rankings system, I like this:
https://premierboxingorganisation.com/heavyweight-200

If you prefer a more subjective, but educated H2H rankings system, TBRB are quite good:
https://tbrb.org/rankings

 

It all comes down to sanctioning fees and how much flex an organization has.

 

They get fighters to fight for their "international" titles or other crappy belts, winning these belts gets you ranked.

 

I have never paid attention to these.

 

Even the governing bodies don't understand how the rankings work.

 

If you don't understand it just means that you are sane. I know a lot of regional and minor belts associated with an org come with top 15 rankings. And titleists for one org can't be ranked by another. Other than that I have no idea

 

You pay, you get rank. It's simple as that.

 

I'm looking forward to the quadrilogy with Laszlo Toth.

When he KO's him a fourth time the WBA should bump him to seventh for sure.

 

make your own up like everybody else

 

Money + corruption. Rankings are just outright trash 95% of the time

 

In all my time watching boxing I've looked at the rankings zero times.
They're all bollocks

 

Whom se ever pays the most fees, wins.