January Top 100 PBO Rankings in all 17 divisions

Good alternative ranking system

 

How can one have Whyte ranked higher than Breazele?? That fight needs to happen, I got DB2.0

 

From a quick scan it looks quite a good set of rankings.

 

Who's better than Mansour and Ugohnoh on Whyte's resume? Breazele better resume and lasted longer/didn't get KO'd unconscious vs AJ.

Also he beat an undefeated Cuban guy

 

Its not biased, mainly because its not a governing body & its working without financial pressure, this ranking system seems to have more knowledge about certain boxers. Knowing a boxer from 0-0 makes him automatically a better boxer than a less familiar boxer with equal abilities.

Its very difficult to make a completely unbiased ranking, in general the ranking will reflect the personality of the man behind the ranking, the decision to standardize any formula is also hard, because all of a sudden subjectively unacceptable names start moving up. When that happens the formula gets re-adjusted or the unwanted names manually pushed down.

 

bingo!

 

Even the most biased -educated fan- can make a better rating system than the 4 governing bodies, for a simple reason

The biased educated fan has a narrow agenda that will only favor his boxer & his ranking will only show a small flaw, but the governing bodies have to serve a general strategy that favors all $ making boxers...So the bias is wider & chronic

The governing bodies ratings simply reflect who are the most valued boxers (which is still an alternative way to measure talent, but not an accurate method), that will be equivalent to deciding the quality of material by how much she costs, which is quasi-accurate at best, because marketing (promotions) inflates the price of any product regardless of quality

 

on top of this, and correct me if i'm wrong, but all the major federations are registered CHARITIES. that's really the golden ticket which keeps the door wide open for corruption, and to use my favourite whipping boy as a prime example, goes a long way to explaining how a scandalous '4 time champion' like felix sturm managed to never have to face a world class MW as a mandatory during his entire career.
he probably made more money during his career than many fighters who fought on the world stage and had twice his ability due to lucrative german TV contracts.
you'd have to be very naïve to think that the amount of money at stake, coupled with his seeming immunity to being matched with a quality opponent, weren't inextricably linked

 

If Felix Sturm had Oscar De La Hoya ears he would be an Elite male super model, you can't blame the governing bodies for polishing him, especially that he was based in Germany where the ideal champion, must have idealistic looks.

The Governing bodies list is an accurate guide to the market value of capable boxers, the public want Hero or Anti-Hero figures, the governing bodies try to figure out which boxers have the most potential for that

 

Can anyone explain to me how Wilder's last opponent (which if you don't recall, was the shot, inactive shell of Stiverne) gets mentioned in his list as ranked #14 at the time of the fight?!

Can't imagine that is in any way accurate.

 

Heavyweight champion Manuel Charr is lower than guys like Abell and Zimnoch. Disgreace!