Comments Thread For: Russell: The Pound-For-Pound List Is A Popularity Contest, It's Not Based Upon Skill

[M312]

It's easy to become more popular... Fight

[sicko]

Well for Ring and ESPN P4P Rankings, absolutely!

ESPN clearly used their P4P as a Marketing Tool for guys who fight on their Platform, that one is extremely Bias. Ring lost all credibility years ago

[a5pe4]

Got to be time for Russell v LSC?!

Needs to marinate some more

[tokon]

If Russell beats Magsayo, there's only 3 fights I want to see: Colbert vs. Russell @ 130, Stevenson vs. Russell @ 130, or Tank vs. Russell @ 135! The LSC fight is worthless now!

The Colbert fight is the only one of those that seems possible.

[Wacked_Out]

If Russell beats Magsayo, there's only 3 fights I want to see: Colbert vs. Russell @ 130, Stevenson vs. Russell @ 130, or Tank vs. Russell @ 135! The LSC fight is worthless now!

See here's the thing, those fighters are black. Gary has NEVER fought a black fighter. If he did he would find that his 'skill set' isn't all that great after all, but more importantly YOU would get to see that as well. He couldn't claim greatness anymore. So those fights will never happen.
Gary is like an undefeated division 2 football team who refuses to schedule teams like Ohio St. since they got pummeled the one time they did. So once every 2 years they beat SMU, or Illinois , go undefeated again, and think the winning record proves they are as good as Alabama.

[Chrismart]

The lists are subjective. It's people's opinions, but by in the large the top 10's seem to be similar in personnel, while the order differs.

Here's some current rankings:

Ring
Canelo, Usyk, Crawford, Inoue, Taylor, Spence, Estrada, Loma, Ioka, Fury

TBRB
Canelo, Usyk, Inoue, Crawford, Spence, Taylor, Fury, Estrada, Golovkin, Ioka,

ESPN
Canelo, Crawford, Inoue, Usyk, Fury, Spence, Taylor, Loma, Estrada, Davis

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Canelo and Fury has the most views and numbers. So might be true.

[real raw]

Kind of like how being a boxer means you gotta actually fight?

This guy is such a waste of talent. He could have been a much bigger name if he actually fought once in a while

exactly!!!!

[just the facts]

Got to be time for Russell v LSC?!

If Haymon was going to let LSC fight Russell that fight would have already happened.

[Jsmooth9876]

Well for Ring and ESPN P4P Rankings, absolutely!

ESPN clearly used their P4P as a Marketing Tool for guys who fight on their Platform, that one is extremely Bias. Ring lost all credibility years ago

There are 2 guys you could argue don't belong on the p4p list at ESPN and they're both at 135 and 1 of them fights on ESPN. besides that there are 4 fighters from ESPN and they all belong on there