Tony Bellew is ranked as #2 hw in BoxRec

Or Cotto's over Martinez.

 

I'm old school. If a guy ruptures his Achilles, and you didn't rupture it, you don't get credit for a win, just like I don't give credit to Charles Martin for "beating" Glazkov.

If you punch a guy and knock him out, you win. If you outbox him, you win. If you bust him in the head and his face rips open, and he's bleeding everywhere, you win.

If he ruptures a tendon in his leg or blows an ACL and can't walk ... and it wasn't a direct result of anything you landed ... anyone could've been standing opposite him and picked up a win.

I expect the rematch to last about 90 seconds, with Bellew all bug-eyed on the deck unable to control his appendages.

 

Jeff horn is top dog a ww aswell

 

Interesting that Buffet Stiverne is classed as inactive on boxrec (which is about right) but is officially the mandatory for the WBC title. Kind of shows how f****d up boxing is these days.

 

Pretty funny

Plus Bellew really has a better claim for #2 at HW than #3 at CW. Lol.

 

But an unbiased one can't take robberies or injury in concideration. And if it did we could just use the Ring instead. I think the official ruling of the fight is logical and we have to accept the freak results that occur (not saying Bellew couldn't have won).

The part of HoF I read as trolling.

I guess Boxrec must work out a system when moving in weight though. Maybe the ranking is more correct in lower weights but can't be applied when moving on the heaviest. Maybe e keso have to accept the tragic that Bellew actually holds the second best win of all active he's.

 

Did they issue any statement when demoting him to #6, acknowledging whatever computational error was involved having had him briefly at #2? Their "points" system currently shows him with 236, whereas to be at #2 he would've needed to be somewhere between Povetkin's (current #2) 315 and #1 Joshua's (who has the field comfortably outpaced) 705. Did they just arbitrarily shave a hundred points off his score because they realized it was ridiculous to have Bellew at #2? If so, doesn't that kind of completely undermine the idea of even having the points system, if it's subject to such drastic edits interpolating subjective qualitative analysis in lieu of just "trusting the system"?

 

People are forgetting that Bellew carries his power.

 

these are miles better based soley on merit. Bellew is still a cruiserweight on ours but would come in one place above Haye if we moved him up which we will next month.
www.premierboxingorganisation.com/heavyweight-201

 

They had him at 403 or thereabout.
So yes, they just dropped a couple points, just like they did with Fury after his win over Wlad 2 years ago, which briefly landed him the top P4P spot.


Their system is flawed beyond belief, and they know it. So expect many more adjustments after ridiculous rankings.

 

Wow so they cut his base algorithm points almost in HALF. That's quite the adjustment. That isn't a system with a few kinks to iron out; that's a system that is ~50% kinks!

 

Bellew is now ranked 6th.