Why did BOXREC rate Haye at 5 ?

because boxrec rankings are complete **** and shouldnt be paid attention too.

 

OK, Haye doesn't deserve to be above Povetkin, but other than him, who else would you put above Haye? I would definitely say no-one. When Pacquiao moved up to lightweight or Mayweather moved up to welterweight, there's no point in ignoring the obvious and putting them at no.15 or something until they beat up a ranked fighter at their new weight, when they are clearly better than most of the top 10. Boxrec should have placed Haye at 6, IMO that's fair. He is a very talented guy, and was unified cruiserweight champion.

 

No unified cruiser champ, he ignored the second best... U.s.s. Cunningham

 

boxrec is gash tho in all honesty, it does its ratings on a stupid points bases, just look at its p4p ratings, if that isnt the definition of ridiculouse i dont know what is

 

He was a unified champ. He wasn't undisputed, but he was unified.

 

this thread is old - boxrec is a stats machine, no one makes the decisions as far as i'm aware. it's horse****.

 

which HW did Haye fight anyway?

 

how is the thread old? He just posted it today. Do you mean we've talked about boxrecs shitty rankings? I agree, we've talked about them on this site for years.

 

Wrong. He had 4 of the 5 recognised titles at CW. That is a unified champ. Any 2 titles qualifies as a unified champ, the guy had 4. By many authorities such as the WBA that is also considered an undisputed champ.

If you add in the fact that the IBF title that Mormeck lost to Bell did not come back when he beat him in the return match, and it was not lost in the ring, Haye also has a strong case for the linear IBF champ.

Its notable that Cunningham said jack **** about Haye when a fight could have been made then piped up as soon as he was sure Haye was going to heavyweight for a bit of free publicity and has since done squat about getting hold of any of those vacant belts.

 

Does anyone actualy think cunningham would beat haye?


I mean seriously atsch

The reason haye ranks highly is because of his cruiserweight resume it travels up with a percentage of points coming off for moving up a divison:deal plus he is ranked 5 wbc rank 3 wbo

 

If I remember correctly Boxrec didn't rank B-Hop at LHW until he beat Tarver...so this is rather suspicious.

 

Because there are only 4 or 5 heaveyweights in the world.

 

It has been said a thousand times here "you go to Boxrec for info, not rankings".