If the number 2 and 3 middleweights fight in an over the weight fight it would be a super middleweight fight and they would earn super middleweight ranking points. I don't think it would be fair for that fight to be considered towards their middleweight ranking. My rules also covered the situation of one boxer not making the division's weight limit in a fight between two top-30 contenders: the boxer who didn't make make weight couldn't earn points, the boxer who did make weight could.
Are you saying a champion should be required to fight a contender? I think matchmaking is beyond the reach of a ranking system, especially an objective one.
Boxing's never had a points ranking system as a precedent to say it would be abused. Subjective rankings controlled by businesses to me are much more open to abuse. A ranking system can't change boxing on its own. Maybe a promoter would make fights just so his boxer would get ranking points, so maybe boxers under some promoters would have a better chance of being ranked higher. But promoters wouldn't be able to directly decide their boxers ranking at all.
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