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  • J90
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    Explain this to me...

    I bought the April 2008 copy of The Ring Magazine yesterday

    It has an end of year review section and one part is the 2007 Best Fighter Poll

    A survey of "Experts" have chosen the their top 10 fighters of 2007, overall scores being added together to make the 2007 list

    Earlier on in the magazine it says Oscar De La Hoya's purchase of the magazine franchise has had no effect...

    Well out of the 10 "Experts" asked for a top 10 for 2007, 10 chose floyd as #1... obviously.. but two of them "Buddy McGrit & Max Kellerman" had Oscar in their top 10... WTF?

    He fought once in 2007 and lost to pretty boy in a hardly inspiring performance

    Buddy McGrits reasoning for chosing oscar at #3 in his list (ahead of Cotto/Calzaghe/Vazquez) is "Oscar i put there because he was the only one who really tested Floyd"...

    I know its only personal choice, but he failed to chose Kelly Pavlik in his whole top 10

    Thats not it, these two choices in the top 10 for oscar (#3 & #7) just happened to give him 13 points which was enough to squeeze him into the overall top 10 for 2007, tied 10th place with Juan Diaz

    What a load of bollocks...
  • CardioMonster
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    #2
    a promoter owning ring magazine can`t be good for boxing.

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    • tyson
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      #3
      Why bother getting upset over subjective opinions from people you don't know?

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      • J90
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        #4
        Why bother leaving meaningless replies?
        Last edited by J90; 02-12-2008, 06:13 AM.

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        • tyson
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          #5
          You are right, sorry.

          Oscar tested Floyd, which in many peoples opinion is something not many below 154 can do.
          Some people felt like he gave the fight away (I felt Mayweather didn't bother to fight).

          Based on that one fight, those two people probably recognizes that Oscar could beat pretty much anyone below 154.
          However, that doesn't really apply to that list, as it should only reflect the fighters who had a succesful year.

          I think McGirt and Kellerman confuses top fighters 2007 with a P4P list, at least per definition.
          I could be wrong, they could be both ******. And they could be both nutlickers...

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          • J90
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            #6
            Originally posted by tyson
            You are right, sorry.

            Oscar tested Floyd, which in many peoples opinion is something not many below 154 can do.
            Some people felt like he gave the fight away (I felt Mayweather didn't bother to fight).

            Based on that one fight, those two people probably recognizes that Oscar could beat pretty much anyone below 154.
            However, that doesn't really apply to that list, as it should only reflect the fighters who had a succesful year.

            I think McGirt and Kellerman confuses top fighters 2007 with a P4P list, at least per definition.
            I could be wrong, they could be both ******. And they could be both nutlickers...

            Indeed

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            • Thread Stealer
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              #7
              i disagreed with buddy.

              castillo tested floyd in their first fight more than oscar did. that was a closer bout.

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              • Fox McCloud
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                #8
                Buddy McGirt is a good trainer, and was a good fighter, so you think he would be a little more on top of his **** than to say something as ****** as that...

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                • rebmogul
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by J90
                  I bought the April 2008 copy of The Ring Magazine yesterday

                  It has an end of year review section and one part is the 2007 Best Fighter Poll

                  A survey of "Experts" have chosen the their top 10 fighters of 2007, overall scores being added together to make the 2007 list

                  Earlier on in the magazine it says Oscar De La Hoya's purchase of the magazine franchise has had no effect...

                  Well out of the 10 "Experts" asked for a top 10 for 2007, 10 chose floyd as #1... obviously.. but two of them "Buddy McGrit & Max Kellerman" had Oscar in their top 10... WTF?

                  He fought once in 2007 and lost to pretty boy in a hardly inspiring performance

                  Buddy McGrits reasoning for chosing oscar at #3 in his list (ahead of Cotto/Calzaghe/Vazquez) is "Oscar i put there because he was the only one who really tested Floyd"...

                  I know its only personal choice, but he failed to chose Kelly Pavlik in his whole top 10

                  Thats not it, these two choices in the top 10 for oscar (#3 & #7) just happened to give him 13 points which was enough to squeeze him into the overall top 10 for 2007, tied 10th place with Juan Diaz

                  What a load of bollocks...
                  It's my opinion that the ring is not worth reading and has lost all credibility. Having ODH ranked proves the point.

                  As far as Buddy and Max their just licking nuts hard. They can say anything they want and try to back it up with obviously , assinine reasoning and most who can think for themselves will recognize it for what it really is, drivel...

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                  • jawsmafia
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by CardioMonster
                    a promoter owning ring magazine can`t be good for boxing.
                    yeah good point not good for improving boxings reputation of being purely about greed and corruption if the man who owns it is motivated to keep himself on the top list when he clearly is not in the top 10 it just shows an example of why its not good for a promoter to control a source of boxing media, sure its there opinion, but *****g him at 3 because "he's the only one who tested Floyd" is ridiculous

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