Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
Quote Originally Posted by TyBuff
The way that they do their rankings does not figure in how good the fighter actually is. In case you didnt know they use a mathematical formula to figure the fighter rankings.
Thats actually pretty interesting because most sports are decided by mathematical formulaes really apart from boxing.

I mean take football,(soccer). At the start of the season Wigan were flying high near the top of the league. No one would argue that they were the best team in the premiership at that time but there results meant they had scored enough points to merit their place at the top.

Perhaps boxrec, although completely absurd at times to us is actually entirely correct in terms of fighter positions in terms of judging who merits a particular position at a certain point in time.
The big difference between boxing and other sports, which kills the usefulness of porting over those other sports' ranking/standings systems, is that there is no mandate that boxers fight the same amount of fights as each other (nor are their opponents assigned randomly). So you could have a guy who just fights a new complete chump every other week rapidly rack up 8 Ws in the time it would take most good boxers to fight a single time. Too many variables to go that way.