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Ring Magazine does not get to determine the lineal championship of any division. Lineal is the man who beat the man who beat the man until someone retires without losing. The way lineage is re-established is simple, and this is the only way it can happen. You take the top two fighters in the division (and there MUST be a consensus) and match them together. There is no other way. You cannot take the number one ranked and match him with a random contender and claim it is the lineal title because that is easier. We just have to deal without having one.
We right now are in an era where there has been no lineal heavyweight champ since Lewis. There are two clear cut, indisputable heavyweights that rank above all others. They, however, are brothers. The only fight that can re-establish a lineal reign is the obvious matchup of the Klitschkos. We're cheating ourselves to try to make it otherwise. The only way there can be a lineal champ (unless they actually were to fight each other) is with some patience. Eventually one will retire or lose and fall down the rankings making a re-establishment of the lineage possible.
Ring magazine usually keeps its rankings and champion in line with the lineages, but occasionally it fails to. It does not determine who the linear champion is. No body, sanctioning or media, does such a thing. That is why the lineal title means something. The Klitschkos are great, great fighters. I am not disparaging them at all. I am in the minority (at least here in the states) who believe they would give any number of all time greats serious, serious problems. They have just simply not re-established lineage because of one another. The Ring Magazine title is not automatically representative of the lineage.
We right now are in an era where there has been no lineal heavyweight champ since Lewis. There are two clear cut, indisputable heavyweights that rank above all others. They, however, are brothers. The only fight that can re-establish a lineal reign is the obvious matchup of the Klitschkos. We're cheating ourselves to try to make it otherwise. The only way there can be a lineal champ (unless they actually were to fight each other) is with some patience. Eventually one will retire or lose and fall down the rankings making a re-establishment of the lineage possible.
Ring magazine usually keeps its rankings and champion in line with the lineages, but occasionally it fails to. It does not determine who the linear champion is. No body, sanctioning or media, does such a thing. That is why the lineal title means something. The Klitschkos are great, great fighters. I am not disparaging them at all. I am in the minority (at least here in the states) who believe they would give any number of all time greats serious, serious problems. They have just simply not re-established lineage because of one another. The Ring Magazine title is not automatically representative of the lineage.
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