When ranking fighters, do you go by OFFICIAL decisions or who you think won?

[DARKSEID]

What a dumb question

[daggum]

agreed, Marquez beat Pacquiao and Pacquiao beat Bradley, boxing fans know.

and may I add hatton beat mayweather/cortez

[Weebler I]

and may I add hatton beat mayweather/cortez

you may

[kiaba360]

I think it should depend on how a fighter performs, not necessarily whether they get the W or L.

[CHOWWOKKA]

This is why i go by both

i think i go by a bit of both, but depends on situation. If underdog won close but controversial fight i will use that to rank him a bit higher, but if the clear favorite won controversially i dotn use it to rank him higher.

But if you go by both then you are beginning to use your human bias. If I were a Pacquiao fan, I could argue in the Marquez fight we go by Official Decisions, and in the Bradley fight, we all really know who won. It is not consistent, I am breaking my own rules to allow my guy to always win, and then I will rank accordingly.

What a dumb question

Thought I had ******s ignored...

I think it should depend on how a fighter performs, not necessarily whether they get the W or L.

But a boxer could perform better then expected and still lose a close one

[studentofthegam]

and may I add hatton beat mayweather/cortez

DRUNK out yo damn mind

[New England]

if the fight is close you have to credit the official decision to judges who put in reasonable cards


if it's a robbery you call it like you see it.

[mrjoeblive]

I only go by official decision. In 100 years, the history books will say L or W, and our opinions won't mean ****.

i agree with this post 100% eventhough most thought JMM beat pac once or twice the official line says JMM lost to pac twice. and for all those that say pac beat tim so they dont consider tim the champ, did you say that about the last pac v JMM? because MOST thought JMM beat pac. the crowd even boo'd pac when the decision was read. and some of the pac fans posted " the judges say pac won and they do this for a living not just posting their opinions so we go by what the judges say" how ironic those statements are now that the judges gave the nod to tim over pac.

[Young Money]

For all you know between now and then erroneous decisions will be reviewed and corrected.

But then they'll be official so we should just go off the offical decisions

[boliodogs]

I try to keep my bias for my favorire fighters under controll and go by who I think won since my rankings don't have any effect on anything anyway. If I headed a boxing organization like the WBA or a magazine like Ring that would be different and I would have to take the official decision into account. I noticed Ring did not lower Pacquiao or raise Bradley in their rankings after Bradley's win over Pacquiao.