Vacant Ring Belt Question...

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To win the Ring Belt there has to be a fight between the #1 rated guy in a division & either the guy rated at #2 or #3. Sometimes though they don't sanction the belt if the guy is at #3 if they don't think the guy can win as in the recent Mosley-Margarito fight (guess they got one WAY wrong)

isnt it a case of for #3 to be eligible for it, he needs to have already have beaten the guy at #2 ? id be suprised if it was just the case that they didnt think mosley could win and therefore not allowed the belt to be up for grabs especially with the rings link to GBP

My understanding was that there needed to be little discernible difference in quality between #2 & #3, or to put it another way that #3 should be nearer in quality to #2 than #4. I think that's what I remember reading anyway. Mosley should have qualified, basically, other than the fact that off the back of the Mayorga performance, the Ring didn't consider him close enough to Cotto.

Your right. I also think Mosely should have qualified; however, the ratings board consists of over 35 boxing writers, and although the vote was split they decided not to sanction it for the World title. There main reason was that #2 Cotto had recently beaten Mosely. However, many people criticized this decision due to how close the cotto mosely fight was.

Here is the ratings panal:


Mark Abrams
Carlos Arias
Eric Armit
Nick Charles
Brian Doogan
Coyote Duran
Margaret Goodman, M.D.
Steve Farhood
Doug Fischer
Lee Groves
Jack Hirsch
Michael Hirsley
Keith Idec
Carlos Irusta
Ted Lerner
Marc Lichtenfeld
Jessi Losado
Scott Mallon
Rich Marotta
David Mayo
Barry McGuigan
Marty Mulcahey
Bernard Osuna
Vittorio Parisi
Matt Richardson
Cliff Rold
Rick Scharmberg
Don Steinberg
Joe Tessitore
Paul Upham
Claude Vesque
Calvin Watkins
John Whistler
Phil Woolever
Kurt Wolfheimer 1