How credible is Ring Magazine and it's ratings?

[generalbulldog]

There are only 3 GBP boxers in the Ring Top 10, Juan Manuel Marquez, Bernard Hopkins & Shane Mosley, all of whom get in to almost all fans' top 10. There's a lot to criticize about GBP but manipulating Ring Magazine is not one of them.

However, in truth their rankings are just as open to being abused by idiotic choices as our own are

I guess that's a good way of looking at it. It's still a big conflict of interest for me with it being own by GBP, since Ring magazine is seen as an "authoritative" publication in the boxing world with it's Ring titles and that sort of stuff and p4p rankings and being quoted by lots of people for credibility.