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A reliable source has informed me that Boxrec's new rankings system has unearthed Joe Mesi as number two heavyweight (Nasty will be happy, anyway) and Scott Harrison as number two in the hottest division in boxing at the moment, featherweight of course.
I can't go there to look myself. It will hurt too much.

Yes, Main Forum Moderator GreyMinus just told me on MSN Messenger the news and i ran along to look at the shocking new rankings system. Thank god i spend most of my time on the forum over here 8)

wrong mesi is number 11 now

guess the owners are playing aorund with them

back to normal now

Thank god for that, Mesi at two?? I'm shocked that Boxing Monthly have put him into the top ten. For me, there are a few more deserving cases than him.

for a while skelton was number 11

Look at the Rankings Now!

1 Lennox Lewis 38 1,938 1989 41-2-1

2 8 Wladimir Klitschko 27 1,825 1996 42-2-0

3 2 Vitali Klitschko 32 1,791 1996 33-2-0

4 5 Juan Carlos Gomez 30 1,785 1995 37-0-0

5 6 Joe Mesi 30 1,773 1997 28-0-0

6 James Toney 35 1,761 1988 67-4-2

7 3 Chris Byrd 33 1,742 1993 37-2-0

8 5 Mike Tyson 37 1,729 1985 50-4-0

9 2 David Tua 31 1,724 1992 42-3-1

10 8 John Ruíz 31 1,679 1992 39-5-1

11 11 Dominick Guinn 28 1,665 2000 24-0-0

12 1 Jameel McCline 33 1,662 1995 30-3-3

13 1 Corrie Sanders 37 1,636 1989 39-2-0

14 5 Fres Oquendo 30 1,619 1997 24-2-0

15 10 Danny Williams 30 1,616 1995 29-2-0

16 16 Attila Levin 27 1,603 1997 29-1-0

17 11 Lance Whitaker 31 1,585 1996 27-2-1

18 18 Audley Harrison 32 1,581 2001 14-0-0

19 2 Andrew Golota 35 1,581 1992 38-4-0

20 3 Sinan Samil 29 1,581 2000 18-1-0


WTF!

Don't know what the criteria is but Wlad at No 2, over Vitali? And Sanders not even in the top ten?!!
Mesi at six, over Tyson and Tua.......did I miss something?

I'm not a big fan of the guy but i think John Ruiz should be higher than 10, his win over Rahman should propel him higher than Mesi and Gomez neither of which have even fought a fighter of Rahman's calibre let alone beat one. Throw in Ruiz's win over Holyfield and Kirk Johnson and he deserves to be a little higher, also i don't think Toney should be so high either, he gatecrashed the Heavyweight with an impressive win over Holyfield but...take into account the state of Holyfield and then also consider it was his first ever fight at the weight i don't think he can jump straight into a top 5 spot ahead of someone like Chris Byrd who has earned respect in the division and has fought better fighters at the weight.