THE RING RATINGS - As of Feb. 22, 2009 Middleweight Limit: 160 pounds CHAMPION: Kelly Pavlik This content is protected Country: USA (Youngstown, Ohio) Record: 35-1-0 (31 KOs) Ranking: This Week: C | Last Week: C | Weeks On List: 117 Titles: WBC, WBO 1. Arthur Abraham This content is protected Country: This content is protected Record: 28-0-0 (23 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #1 | Last Week: #1 | Weeks On List: 210 Titles: IBF 2. Felix Sturm This content is protected Country: This content is protected Record: 31-2-1 (13 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #2 | Last Week: #2 | Weeks On List: 284 Titles: WBA 3. Sebastian Sylvester This content is protected Country: This content is protected Record: 29-3-0 (14 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #3 | Last Week: #3 | Weeks On List: 184 4. Khoren Gevor This content is protected Country: This content is protected Record: 29-3-0 (15 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #4 | Last Week: #4 | Weeks On List: 13 5. Randy Griffin (better known in Germany than in the US) This content is protected Country: USA (Louisville, Ky.) Record: 24-2-3 (12 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #5 | Last Week: #5 | Weeks On List: 71 6. David Lopez This content is protected Country: Mexico Record: 37-12-0 (23 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #6 | Last Week: #6 | Weeks On List: 54 7. Javier Castillejo (well known and fought alot in Germany) This content is protected Country: Spain Record: 62-8-0 (43 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #7 | Last Week: #7 | Weeks On List: 137 8. Amin Asikainen (well known and fought in Germany) This content is protected Country: Finland Record: 25-1-0 (17 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #8 | Last Week: #9 | Weeks On List: 143 Next Fight: 11/28/2008 vs. Khoren Gevor 9. Daniel Geale This content is protected Country: Australia Record: 20-0-0 (12 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #9 | Last Week: #9 | Weeks On List: 15 10. John Duddy This content is protected Country: USA (New York City, N.Y.) Record: 26-0-0 (17 KOs) Ranking: This Week: #10 | Last Week: - | Weeks On List: 1
I think what Tom is trying to refer is the sudden appearence of John Duddy, 2 days after Arum made it clear he's the #1 candidate to be next in line for Pavlik. What a coincidence! (Don't get the wrong idea that beating Matt "" Vanda (lost 5 out of last 7) has anything to do with it).
No, I mean the German dominance at middleweight. Nearly the half of those in the ratings fight out of Germany and 3 others had their biggest success there...so 7 out of 10 of that list are best known for fighting in Germany...
Randy Griffin has nothing to do with Germany, just cos he had his 2 big fights over there against the same guy. Javier Castillejo aswell, he's only fought in Germany for the last 2 years and last 5 fights, 3 of them against German's anyway. The fact is, only 3 of them are German.
Really?Which 3 cuz Ghevor and Abraham are armenian?Sylvester and Sturm are german altough Sturm ain't 100% german.Griffin and Castillejo don't count and even the Ring has Armenia on the guys,he just changed it to make a point.
Both Gevor and Abraham have a german citizenship and therefore Germans altough having Armenian roots. But that don't matter that much...I just wanted to point out that 7 out of ten had their recent, biggest success in Germany. Both are far more known in Germany than in the States...