Ring Magazine sold to Turki Alalshikh

dana now has money behind him so i see tko making some noise for a year or so before starting to fall off. a league type structure doesn't seem to work for boxing. we could see boxing split for awhile like golf with the pga & liv. i hope the competition brings some positives to the sport, less sanctioning bodies, less belts, more active fighters. i'd prefer to see individual promoters act as teams, facing off against each other in the five v five type stuff we've seen recently, a split will only last so long because it won't be the best v the best. i read turki is no longer interested in dmitry v david benavidez & won't bid on that fight, i guess turki wants the artur trilogy. i wonder if we'll see the ring strip dmitry if he defends against david b. the ring has history & used to mean something but those days are now over. the model that works best is the wbss, but on a bigger scale, all divisions & going deeper with second & third tiers to build & showcase fighters & keep them active

Welp, Tyson Fury ranked number 1 in latest Ring rankings. Gonna have to call BS on that one. Ring being nothing more than a marketing rag for a soon to be announced comeback. Turki just loves him some Fury.

I don't refer to ring ratings any more since he bought it. Sad times

But looking at that list i'm not sure who I'd put above Fury. I know he says he's retired but was he removed at all? Thought they kept people on there till they'd been inactive for a year

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Originally Posted by Mark TKO

I don't refer to ring ratings any more since he bought it. Sad times

But looking at that list i'm not sure who I'd put above Fury. I know he says he's retired but was he removed at all? Thought they kept people on there till they'd been inactive for a year

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Fair to say announcing your retirement is basically removing yourself ;D. But you know...I'd actually put Dubois ahead sticking with the ol saying "you're as good as your last recent fight(s)". In the time Fury arguably phoned it in with a literal novice and taken back to back L's, Dubois has come back from an injury that ruins more than a few fighters and run thru 3 opponents in dominating fashion right back into a deserved unification.

turki came out basically saying they didn't want boring fighters on their ring/ riyadh cards & then puts lawrence okolie on the oleksandr v daniel undercard