Ring Magazine on the Road to Sanity

[VictorCharlie]

My head hurts. Seriously, I'm between a rock & a hard place on this one.

I mean, the ABC's 'in theory' are fine yet their ranking systems and multi interim straps are so corrupting and toxic. Who's to say a Magazine can't go the same way?All they are doing is offering yet another alternative albeit via collusion/ monopoly/ slander whatever you wanna call it.

Am I the only one who realises that it doesn't take a magazine to establish lineage

So then surely it's another load of crap smothered in crap

Rankings are purely subjective but when have you read the Ring rankings and thought that their #1 contender was in no way even close to being a top 10 fighter? Now think of how many garbage mandatory defenses we have seen over the years. I am not beholden to the Ring rankings but I can't really think of anyone currently that provides a better set.

[Mars_ax]

Just wanted to add to this thread: As long as there's money to be made, the "alphabets" are here to stay, and I doubt that anything can be done to change it, so why worry about it one way or the other.

P.S. if boxing were going to "die" it would have done so a long time ago.

[Fenster]

Bilbo makes a great point about what the belts actually mean to fighters.

I was reading a brief twitter argument between Sergio Martinez and Peter Quillin the other week. Martinez proudly cited he was a three time IBO champion in England. This made me laugh. The LINEAL middleweight champ of the world was citing the IBO title as one of his proud achievements.

Four world champions per division is utterly pathetic. However, has winning an alphabet ever caused harm to a fighters career? Silverware only boosts it.

[marbleheadmaui]

Bilbo makes a great point about what the belts actually mean to fighters.

I was reading a brief twitter argument between Sergio Martinez and Peter Quillin the other week. Martinez proudly cited he was a three time IBO champion in England. This made me laugh. The LINEAL middleweight champ of the world was citing the IBO title as one of his proud achievements.

Four world champions per division is utterly pathetic. However, has winning an alphabet ever caused harm to a fighters career? Silverware only boosts it.

Harm to a fighter's career? Probably never. Harm to the sport? Every day.