Briggs tonight....?

Byrd Valuev Toney Ruiz Brock Rahman Klitschko Brewster Peter Maskaev This is the boxrec hw top 10. Valuev at 2? Klitschko ahead of Brewster? Brock ahead of Rahman? What the hell? Basically its who they've beat and who they've been beaten by, which determines it. Valuev is 2nd and deserving coz hes undefeated in 43 and has beaten Etienne, Donald and Riuz in his last 3. Brock is also undefeated and Brewster hasn't had many BIG named fighters like Wladimir. Their p4p list is the one that I have most problems with.

Boxrec has computerized rankings based on several factors........I find it for the most part bogus. :boxing:

Byrd Valuev Toney Ruiz Brock Rahman Klitschko Brewster Peter Maskaev This is the boxrec hw top10. Valuev at 2? Klitschko ahead of Brewster? Brock ahead of Rahman? What the hell?

Yeah, sometimes BoxRec rankings are completely inacceptable. I completley disagree. If he beats anyone on the list in front of him, he gets their spot. If you beat 10,20, or 50 people and none of them are in the top 100 that shouldn't put you in the top 100. Ya he beat Ray Mercer and it was on pay per view, but he was like ranked 150 th at the time.

They are and they aren't. The fighters he's beat aren't known so that should be taken into account when ranking

Yeah, sometimes BoxRec rankings are completely inacceptable.

old news This is old news of course, but a comment about Briggs is indicated. His world ranking on boxrec.com is 119th, totally ridiculous: http://boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=004629 I tried to find him by going to the current heavyweight rankings and had to go to the 5th page! :mad: The guy has a 10 fight winning streak and several of his opponents have had good records even if they're not world class fighters. I would probably rank him just outside the top 20, based on consistent results against decent opposition for awhile, + earlier results that were respectable. He's only lost 4 times and 3 of them have come against world class opponents.

Knockout win for Briggs in the 4th round. ;)