Fat Dans, Updated Middleweight Rankings

I'd bet a ribeye at Ruths Chris that somewhere out there, somebody rates Broner over Fitzsimmons because Broner is a "4 division champ" but Fitzsimmons was only 3 boxing is a mess with all these trinkets

the middleweight record of title defenses is 14 and will remain 14 until an undisputed champion, like monzon, defends it 15 times this idiot really brought up monzons record when addressing GGG...Hopkins has the most defenses of a trinket....Monzon beat Nino Benvenuti for the lineal title WBA and WBC was universally recognized as the middleweight champion Hopkins has 6 total defenses...the rest were IBF trinket defenses GGG is even worse because he won a "regular" or interim title and was elevated...never beat the number one guy or beat the WBA champion for that matter they are making a mockery of what fighters gave there life to achieve for the sake of hype....Hopkins and GGG hold no legitimate record I'd bet a ribeye at Ruths Chris that somewhere out there, somebody rates Broner over Fitzsimmons because Broner is a "4 division champ" but Fitzsimmons was only 3

For me it's 1. GGG 2. Lee 3. Quillen 4. Alverez

Fat Dan has released his new MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION rankings, and has ranked Canelo as #1 in the MW division. Which I find weird, because towards the end of Martinez's reign, he was ranked number 2 after GGG even though Martinez was the "champ", and Cotto was ranked number 2 after GGG when he was champ, somehow Canelo gets the number 1 spot. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/12495576/division-division-rankings-middleweight the middleweight record of title defenses is 14 and will remain 14 until an undisputed champion, like monzon, defends it 15 times this idiot really brought up monzons record when addressing GGG...Hopkins has the most defenses of a trinket....Monzon beat Nino Benvenuti for the lineal title WBA and WBC was universally recognized as the middleweight champion Hopkins has 6 total defenses...the rest were IBF trinket defenses GGG is even worse because he won a "regular" or interim title and was elevated...never beat the number one guy or beat the WBA champion for that matter they are making a mockery of what fighters gave there life to achieve for the sake of hype....Hopkins and GGG hold no legitimate record

I don't pay attention to Dan Rafael's rankings, but was Cotto ranked no.1 prior to the loss? Because if he wasn't then ranking Canelo no.1 really doesn't make a lot of sense.

Fat Dan has released his new MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION rankings, and has ranked Canelo as #1 in the MW division. Which I find weird, because towards the end of Martinez's reign, he was ranked number 2 after GGG even though Martinez was the "champ", and Cotto was ranked number 2 after GGG when he was champ, somehow Canelo gets the number 1 spot. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/12495576/division-division-rankings-middleweight He has Canelo ranked number one because he just beat the lineal middleweight champ. Whether you agree that Cotto was the best at middleweight is disputable. What isn't is that he was the lineal champ and Canelo beat him therefore making him number one in the division. Pretty easy to understand.

Well then Canelo should fight GGG.

So Canelo should have no problem fighting GGG at 160 since he's "number 1" of the division.

Lmao it's a bit OD since both Canelo and Cotto are not really middleweights... but Cotto was definitely a better win P4P than Lemieux so can't be that mad at Canelo being rated higher. Canelo's resume has better names on it but I think Golovkin is consistently excellent in the ring, is probably the better overall boxer, and is definitely the bigger puncher. Can't wait to see them fight.

ESPN Alvarez Golovkin Cotto Quillin Lee Saunders Lemieux N'Dam Jacobs Eubank Ring Alvarez Golovkin Lee Quillin Saunders Lemieux Jacobs N'Dam Geale Eubank Soro Transnational Alvarez Golovkin Quillin Lee Lemieux N'Dam Geale Saunders Wade Heiland Independ Boxing Rankings (now Premiere Boxing Ranking) Golovkin Quillin Geale Jacobs Lee Lemieux Heiland N'Dam Wade Soliman Truax Saunders Guerrero

No surprise, Dan tends to rank lineal champs #1. He's got Adonis above Kov, and Cotto was above Ggg last week

I do not understand this. After a year plus of saying GGG is the top MW, he puts Canelo on top. Maybe winning the lineal title was the reason.

Wow,is he eating his meals spiked with acid,or has the amount of lard in his system finally begun to cut off the oxegen to his brain?

Pretty laughable really His rankings don't seem to be based on a championship system, so he has a lot to answer for here... Theres literally no dispute who the best middleweight on the planet is