Independent World Boxing Rankings

wtf is lomachenko doing at 19? ..

 

Its an interesting way of ranking.

Like all ranking, it has its problems, buts its as good as most.

Certainly better than whatever voodoo magic the sanctioning bodies use to rank fighters!

 

I don't get Cotto's ranking. He has one fight at the weight and a pair of losses in the recent past, at a lower weight.

 

Yeah but he destroyed the head-and-shoulders top man in the division and a computer point system will always rate that very high (see boxrec and this) as opposed to high activity with decent opponents. The losses at JMW are irrelevant if the system separates accomplishments by division, which the thread starter said is the case.

 

Yeah, he's 3-1. He's lost 25% of his fights and the best opponent he's beaten is Gary Russell Jr, who was utterly unproven and no way in the world he could have been ranked as high as say 8th at the time.

 

Zzzz

 

Ward shouldn't be #1 any more. He's been too inactive. No fights in a year and four months. Two fights in the last three years. No scheduled upcoming fights. For all intents and purposes he's retired. Meanwhile, Carl Froch has been taking care of business.

Aside from the Pacquiao win Marquez doesn't have much of a record at all at welterweight. The only other welterweight he has a victory over is Alvarado. Pacquiao is a good win, but he's small and it doesn't prove that Marquez could handle the naturals at that weight like Floyd Mayweather, Kell Brook, Keith Thurman. And the rankings aren't taking any of the intangibles like how old Marquez is or how close the Bradley fight was into consideration. You can't make a guy top 5 in a division based on a near draw and two losses even if it is against two top fighters in that division.

As for putting Cotto above Golovkin, not everyone has it that way. That may be the consensus among four or five rankers but the clear consensus among the fans and writers is that Golovkin is the better fighter and Martinez wasn't 100%. That Cotto rating at middleweight reflects what Martinez was in 2012, not the actual Martinez he faced in 2014.

That's a problem. Guys slip, and as long as they don't lose, they can slip quite a ways and not lose ranking. Then when someone picks the cherry they shoot up the rankings themselves and the error perpetuates itself. Cotto could lose in his next fight to Bundrage and then Bundrage would be ranked above Golovkin.

 

Love computerized rankings, but I am a nerd, I made my own computerized rankings for fun. Ha ha!

Out of curiosity, what does the IBO do now instead?