BroughtonRulesRefuge wrote: ↑03 Feb 2022, 10:03
- Looks like a sorta Bill James approach to ranking fighters instead of Baseball players by using Ring's 100 years of Fight Division rankings as a baseline.
I'm rather dubious of that Ring Fishnet crew who horribly botched the now heavily derided Floyd Mayweather Olympic Drug Testing Testing TUE standards for boxing, but 'tis what it 'tis, a brand new Ring History perspective enhanced by what I assume to be a new algorithm to correlate all the details.
https://www.ringtv.com/634216-to-be-the ... gs-100-91/
Will Sugar Ray Robinson retain his traditional all time Greatest status, or could Harry Greb sucker punch him off of his throne? What of Ali? Could he withstand a Fury Blubber charge after being KOed by Rocky in the first computerized tourney?
Thanks for this. This is right up my street. I was an avid Ring buyer until Golden Boy took over and have stopped completely since they overhauled their ratings policy. This is interesting though. Not that I can take it seriously as a yardstick. You'd think that The Ring would realise through the efforts of Boxrec that formulas and stats don't work.
What I like is the listing of a boxer's top ten opponents - something I feel that needs to be highlighted in today's boxers, possibly as much as their W-L-D ring record. The Ring once used this comparison for Orlando Canizales and Virgil Hill's 'record' world championship reigns and those of Manuel Ortiz and Bob Foster respectively. The former didn't come off well.
I might have missed it but they don't seem to acknowledge that an era with more weight divisions has more diluted top tens ie go back to Monzon's reign and you have just one divsion between middleweight and heavyweight. Nowadays there are three. Years ago I spent a few rainy afternoons picking a few boxers and did what the Ring have done here. One was Joe Calzaghe and my gut instinct but hazy memory tells me they are wrong on his fight with Eubank. After all, Eubank hadn't fought as a super-middleweight for two years and had two ten rounders at light-heavyweight in the meantime. Anyway, a commendable undertaking by The Ring for the work involved but surely they can see its flaws.
