A paradox about p4p rankings

[Kev]

OK lets clarify. Of course facts and results play a role, It would be foolish to suggest otherwise. What I'm saying is that in addition to the bare facts, there's subjectivity and opinion also. I'd be rather surprised if you tried to tell me that Ring Rankings contain no subjectivity.

edit: duly noted on Tessitore and McGuigan LOL

There's some personal bias of course but it's very small imo. I mean look at their current top 10 and honestly you can't really criticise it. I mean I'd like to have Joe Calzaghe at number 2 seeing as beat Hopkins this year who was number 5 p4p at the time and has never lost a fight, whereas Marquez got beat against Manny Pacqiauo and has lost a couple times in his career but it's a minor niggle, a difference of one place. I wouldn't have R Marquez in the top 10 either, back to back losses should have seen him drop down. I'd probably bump the others below him up and have Paul Williams on the list at number 10 instead.

Aside from that the rankings are very fair imo, and there's no doubt that R Marquez is a brilliant fighter and still one of the best in the world even if I wouldn't have him at 7 personally.

Oh, I have no problem with calling the rankings fair, and I have no major disagreement with the p4p rankings. But it sure aint an exact science. I'd say there's a lot more opinion than you claim. If there wasn't, then they wouldn't need guys like McGuigan and Tessitore on the selection team would they? That's the thing about opinions, you get enough people giving them and things tend to even out and discrepancies disappear.

I think we can be fairly sure that Mcguigan's opinion at least isnt taken seriously by the Ring. If it was Amir Khan would be in the top 5