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Quote Originally Posted by Galaxy View Post
I vote no. Nothing against Forrest but whats the point of awarding a championship when he never meet our conditions since they were established? We have set in place certain rules & conditions & I think its wise to stick to them. Plus it would look bad for our ratings imo to have a dead man advance through our rankings & become recognized as our champion.
I don't really think its about maintaining the rating as much as it is just giving a guy a salute.When two credible pool members,ranked members get it on and fill out the spot,so be it.We're not talking permanent here.In hindsight and respectfully,I have no problem with Lopez,Vanes,Lattimore waiting a bit and it came off as just a bit rushed Imo.He was a champion,and he was killed.Hopefully we don't need exceptions like this again.Rules are rules...you are correct and 100% right but we have made exceptions on maintaining ranks before.Izzy?
Give the guy a salute by all means... but there's no need to give him our championship! Sure he was a top fighter & a nice guy but he didn't meet our conditions. I can't see any reasonable reason to have a guy who's passed away included in our ratings! Especially if we want them to be credible... which is the reason I assume we maintain them in the 1st place, or else whats the point?

I know your opinions about filling vacancies but imo it give guys options... if we hadn't voted Antillon in to 10th at 135; Acosta victory would have only earned him a pool entry, where I feel he totally deserved ranking after defeating the highly touted prospect. Plus other places that maintain rankings don't leave positions vacant, if they have a top ten & someone drops out they fill the vacancy with a guy they feel is best by discussion, as we did by votes.

In regards to Vasquez' exception, he was out with a legitimate eye injury & there was the potential for him to return at that weight & we only maintained his ranking, we didn't award him the championship! There's no chance Forrest will return. Our ratings should be about the best current fighters in those divisions & due to tragic circumstances Forrest is no longer included in that group...