The Ring Magazine's Annual Ratings

Good point.

I did wonder about the date because the magazine seems about 6 week behind so the ratings for december would be released in feb but that magazine is titled march.

 

Thanks for that info, Conteh.

That actually makes things look even more accurate in several different scenarios - that had be scratching my head based on what happened in Jan/Feb in a couple of instances - than if the ratings had actually been put out in those months and not just the issue months.

 

He's right, for example I have the february issue here, I bought it january 11th or something and it is the first magazine with a write up of the pac-marquez fight

 

That's not to say The Ring didn't used to have annual ratings too, it did, but they were almost (if not exactly) identical to that month's ratings and split into tiers/groups, e.g.

Take 1974.

Middleweights would have Monzon world champ. Then rank:
Group 1: Valdes, Licata, Antuirofermo
Group 2: Tonna, Finnegan, Watts, Briscoe, etc.


They used to have other awards, apart from the usual Fighter/Fight of the Year like Progress of the Year (winners inlcuded Alan Rudkin, Chris Finnegan).

 

Very interesting. Thanks.

 

Any ideas here? If there's a way of doing it i'll gladly update them myself.

I think the ring year end rankings are a great tool and whilst it isn't the be all and end all, it's certainly very very useful.

 

Not just hw, but every weight class btw; I have the year end rankings saved in my own database for every year but I don't know how to open up the boxrec page and input the data.

 

Have thought this for a while.

 

Even in one year we're talking 12 months for 17 divisions we're talking 204 top ten lists. Going back to atleast 1991 that's 4080 top ten lists. Plus the older divisions to boot.

It's the sort of thing thu couldn't be scrabbled together by one man. It'd have to be a joint effort between a group of people who had the required magazines willing to split the workload.

For now i'm content with having the annuals to hand with the possibility of anyone correcting any resume oversight due to the absence of those who slipped in and out of monthly ratings.

 

Do you have the annual rankings for 2009 and 2010? could you post the heavyweight ones if you do please?

 

Heavyweight
Champ - Wladimir Klitschko

1. Vitali Klitschko
2. Alexander Povetkin
3. Eddie Chambers
4. Ruslan Chagaev
5. David Haye
6. Chris Arreola
7. Denis Boytsov
8. Nikolai Valuev
9. Alexander Dimitrenko
10. Tony Thompson


Champ - Wladimir Klitschko

1. Vitali Klitschko
2. David Haye
3. Alexander Povetkin
4. Tomasz Adamek
5. Ruslan Chagaev
6. Eddie Chambers
7. Denis Boytsov
8. Nikolai Valuev
9. Alexander Dimitrenko
10. Chris Arreola

Year end for 2011 are on the rings website now and will be published in the next magazine.

 

Ok I have every december ranking for every division aside from 97 but I will hopefully have aquired that over the next couple of weeks.

Flea; how do you want this thread to work?

Is it going to be just ad hoc now and cleaned up later; are you looking for a certain order to get things going; or has the novelty wore off already

 

This ain't my thread

I think everyone should contribute whatever they can. I will have several word documents going as per division, so, for example Flywright: 1920; Jan, February blah blah blah

I will update the threads as we go and fill in the gaps as oeoe contribute. Eventually I'll make one thread that will link to all the separate threads that will, in theory, be all the months and all the years.

Just chuck everything you can into that thread and i'll start pasting it into the word documents and rearrange it chronologically :good

 

oh dear I was wondering why there was no response on your thread atsch

Ok. At some point tomorrow i'll paste all my stored rankings. 99% of them are available on boxrec but i've plugged quite a lot of gaps.

Infact it would be so much easier if I emailed you my spreadsheet because i'm terrible at formatting stuff in a suitable fashion.

Maybe if I email it you and you can update your word docs and then you have it handy for when it comes to creating your super thread?

 

Btw it's one huge spreadsheet so it'd be just one email.

I've done that because it makes it very easy when searching opponents.