What A Crock Of Crap!!!!!

[Galaxy]

SO you'd prefer the journos to LIE and pretend they scored the fight for Pac?

They don't have to lie about anything. Just hand over the belt with their mouths closed.

This actually strikes at a deeper question that I have raised before. The Ring ISNT an official governing body and they DON'T have any official belt sanctioning abilities.

They are a magazine. As a magazine it is entirely right and proper that they comment on all the big fights, that is what a magazine's role is.

Can you imagine Shoot, the popular uk soccer mag not providing assessment of matches for fear of being labelled biased, it's just absurd, that is the very job of a magazine!

So there is nothing wrong in The Ring making judgements on who they thought won the fight, that is their role.......as a magazine.

However, if you take issue, as I do to an extent, of a magazine holding more sway in the minds of the hardcore fans than the sanctioning bodies then that is another argument entirely.

I have raised this many times. The idea that a magazine's rankings can take precedent over the actual official rankings is something entirely peculiar to boxing.

No other sport operates in this way.I believe that in allowing the Ring to operate in a such a way devalues the actual belts that are in place.

When Greece stunned the whole of Europe by winning the European cup (soccer) a few years back people were amazed, but noone questioned the result. That was it, they won they were champions.

In boxing however it's another thing entirely. As I highlighted the other day Ricardo Torres despite being a legitimate belt holder is ranked only 9th (actually 10th as the champ is 0) in the junior welterweight division by the Ring Magazine.

This creates a strange double standard. Although he is a genuine world title belt holder, the fans and writers alike don't recognise that and rate him lower than people such as D Hop who has never even fought for a world title

Those are the cases I think the Ring serves to undermine boxing because they are unintentionally taking away from the credibility of the sanctioning bodies.

Your kidding right? Using credibility & sanctioning bodies in the same sentence. That's just laughable!!!

Who did Torres beat to get his belt? Arnaoutis! Who'd he beat? He didn't beat Hatton so why would anyone recognize that fight as for the championship? Multiple champions is what's ruining the game. At least the Ring policy is trying to make things better!

I don't see any double standards in this regard from the Ring, Torres just ain't a champion cause the ABC boys don't exist! The sooner you stop recognizing them yourself the better of you'll be!