New Ring Ratings: Arreola OUT of the Top10....Tony Thompson is in.

Thompson made more sense than Arreola BEFORE he beat Krasquitti.

 

Thompson is a pretty decent hw. In the same mold as TOS and to a lesser degree, Brock, w/less power. His chin is still a question. He looked pretty hapless against Timor Ibrag which soured me on him. Orthodox boxer w/pretty slow hands and good defense. I do think he could give all the belt holders fits sans Wlad, assuming he has a decent chin. Wlad would ruin him due to his orthodox style.

I think the bottom half of the Ring's rankings are flawed. Mine would be

5. Sultan
6. Brock
7. Valuev
8. Byrd
9. Thompson
10. Povetkin

Just outside
Virchis, Sergei, Brewster

 

Maybe the read some comments on ESB and revised the rankings as Thompson is the much more deserving than Arreola.

 

I like Arreola but he has no business in the top10.

 

I'm sure the comments by real journalists in MaxBoxing, USA Today, ESPN, etc. carried much more weight there...

 

I had him marked as a Tye Fields type, happy being a big fish in a small pond...but I admit he has stepped it up over his last 3 fights.

To be brutally honest, in terms of recent achievement, he probably does deserve to scrape into a top 10 at the moment. I can easily think of more than 10 better fighters, but several of them have just suffered a loss or two.

 

:yep

 

Brewster looks finished. If he wants to keep fighting, he should take one year of gradual increase in comp. before stepping up again.

 

As has been said, Thompson was more top ten worthy than Arreola, even before he beat Krasniqi.

Arreola should not have been in there, at all.

But don't look for Thompson to stay in the top ten very long.

 

why is brock ahead of virchis????? virchis has better wins.........and would beat brock for sure.

 

Good to see Tony make the list

 

After his heartless, "thanks for showing up" performance against Wlad, Brewster has to be written off from each and every world HW ranking. Not even top 15 in my opinion.