What state is the ring magazine is now that its owned by GBP?

in my eyes it has lost alot of credibility.

 

To its credit, the articles have not been especially pro-DLH, or especially pro-GBP for that matter.

In fact, they've been pretty critical of DLH and openly bashed the PBF-DLH rematch.

 

in certain cases, their champions will have less clout than when the magazine was independant

as for your 2nd question, GBP fighters will probably be slightly favored in the rankings

 

atsch :-(

 

I see the Ring becoming more of a tool to promote GBP fighters. Maybe not so much right now because it would be too obvious but give it time.

 

I see it the same way I have always seen it. A good organization that is not perfect. I haven't seen all this preicted bias towards DLH like many haters have predicted.

 

Mayweather is clearly #1 though.

 

That is true, it's not like they would immediately start being pro-GBP in such short time. That would be too obvious.

 

I dunno how you can say Mayweather is not no. 1, the guy is a five weight champion, and that is what makes him number 1. Who else are you going to put in there? Pac-Man maybe has a chance, but he is starting to not look the force he once was, while even though I am a massive Calzaghe fan, and I know Joe cannot be number 1 because of the way he spent a lot of his early career (though this will change if he can reel off RJJ and Pavlik and maybe pick up some of the ABC titles).

Mayweather, may not be acting in the best interests of boxing at the moment and acting in his own interests, but thats what happens to a lot of boxers when the become number 1, the fight game has always been about the money, hence it being called prizefighting.

 

Since the "ring" title does not require mandatory defenses against a top competitor, their rankings are actually kind of irrelevant. Being ranked #1 in Ring means nothing if the "champ" doesn't ever have to fight you.