Is Ring magazine biased?!?!?!?!?!?!

[ИATAS]

I still don't see that logic man.

If Cotto didn't get KTFO by Marg then that would be totally true, but that didn't happen. Shane beat Marg and became the man to beat. How hard is that lineage to trace for you guys? There was already a linear titlist there. No amount of good deeds at prior weight should supersede the need to fight contenders to become #1 if there was already a linear titlist.

if you start talking linear than that's another thing, that doesn't necessarily mean that person IS THE BEST or is considered the best. You can say "he's the man to beat" or whatever if you want, but not all circumstances are so clear. For example Zsolt Erdei was the linear champion of 175 pounds but no one honestly believed he was the best 175 pound fighter at the time and he wasn't ranked #1 by anyone (the ring, espn, yahoo sports, etc.).

As for Cotto, again, I think it had more to do with the fact that no one in the division had really done much of anything when he beat Foreman and comparing his resume, and his skill set to everyone else he got the #1 spot. It was to me more of a lucky circumstance that he entered the division when he did. Again, Williams hadn't done ****, Canelo hadn't really beat anyone with a pulse, Martinez left the division, lara was a nobody and Angulo lost to Cintron. Perfect timing for Cotto to get that top spot based on his resume and past accomplishments after dominating a highly ranked guy in Foreman.

[TheMexHurricane]

People like to say they have some sort of bias towards Golden Boy fighters since Oscar bought the magazine but i havent seen any evidence of that.

Nope. They actually have Trinidad(original welter) ranked higher than Oscar(original jr lightweight who beat Trinidad) in the all-time p4p ratings. If they were going to be biased towards Oscar that's precisely the way not to do it.