adamek at 30 is stupid, given the fights he's been in & the fact he's won a ring belt. he should be in the top 15. and darchinyan, who has blown out a "pound for pounder" in mijares, holds titles at 2 weights, stopped numerous world class fighters (pacheco, arce, kirilov) down in the 60s: insane. and haye was far too low, given he beat an undispued (pretty much) champ in mormeck, destroyed his unification opponent (macca), won a heavyweight belt (valuev), and was beating - and knocking out - world class comp (frago, gurov) for the bloody EUROPEAN title at cruiserweight. also, the fact that he won his 2 belts in france and germany as well...yank writer wouldn't give a damn about that, would he?
just echo my comment again Ring aren't what they we're their top 100 list used to be fairly accurate but this years was terrible their standards are going down all the time their ratings in general are just horrible. And here is the top 25 (horrible just horrible) 1. MANNY PACQUIAO 2. FLOYD MAYWEATHER 3. SHANE MOSLEY 4. BERNARD HOPKINS 5. JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ 6. NONITO DONAIRE 7. MIGUEL COTTO 8. CELESTINO CABALLERO 9. CHAD DAWSON 10. PAUL WILLIAMS 11. ISRAEL VAZQUEZ 12. RAFAEL MARQUEZ 13. HOZUMI HASEGAWA 14. ARTHUR ABRAHAM 15. SERGIO MARTINEZ 16. KELLY PAVLIK 17. IVAN CALDERON 18. CHRIS JOHN 19. WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO 20. FERNANDO MONTIEL 21. VITALI KLITSCHKO 22. ANTONIO MARGARITO 23. TIMOTHY BRADLEY 24. JOSHUA CLOTTEY 25. MIKKEL KESSLER Oh yeah and if you have time check out their top prospects list weight by weight this is also terrible. http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1479/top_prospects_to_watch_in_2010/ http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1481/top_prospects_to_watch_in_2010__part_ii/
how the **** is chad dawson in the top 10? he hasnt done **** scince his win over adamek.... he beat 2 grandfathers, TWICE (as if the first fights werent convincing enough /face palm) and then he fought 2 tomato cans....
I posted this in another thread after reading that shitty list in the mag 'Just reading this Top 100 horse****, who writes this crap, The Ring need to get off Bernard Hopkins's nuts, the guy fights once every 18 months and is rated No4 same as last year without even having a fight in the 12 months from the last list, Arthur Abraham at 13 based on wins over Raul Marquez, Lajuan Simon and Mahir Oral!?!?! Glen Johnson jumping up 36 to 18 based on wins over Aaron Norwood and Daniel Judah. Juan Carlos Salgado crashing the rankings at 28!!?!! based on one win over Jorge Linares and our own Carl Froch entering the rankings at 59!! even though he's beaten Pascal, Taylor and Dirrell??? What a pile of ****'