Are Ring rankings still the gold standard?

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The Transnational Boxing Rankings are supposed to be the best. Find them here.

A lot of very knowledgeable people contribute to that system but they are no better or worse then anyone else. I find them all more or less the same.

The Ring is just as susceptible to the post 8 division bullshit as anyone else is. They have had the task of trying to swim through the murky waters of the fabricated rankings of the 4 governing bodies. Over time unfortunately they have for the most part copied many of the practices used by others.

Take 168 for example. How is Arthur Abraham ranked #2 behind Froch? How is Chavez ranked 9?
To their credit TBR does not rank Chavez but they have Abraham at #2 also and Sturm at #6. They are all guilty of a paper trail sooner or later. At hev they have Fury at 2. Now I know its a wasteland but #2? The Ring has him at #3.

At middle both have Cotto as champion and that's insane. Much of the Rings history had the person viewed by the educated boxing public and sports writers as the undisputed champion with or without all the belts.
Paying to much attention to what was lineal has also helped just line them up with others as lineal is also a flawed concept. Does anyone actually believe that Cotto could beat the Kazak?
And both have Kid Ovaltine ranked at #2 and Martinez at # 3. That’s just wrong. I find the differences with all of these Orgs negligible at best.

Wow, rankings like that?
My 1980-1990's Ring magazines, I was lock in step with whom they had ranked division wise & P4P.
Can't say I would today with you've quote, thats pretty rough.