Why are the IBF rankings so horrible?

[Eff Pandas]

Ponomarev is no longer in the IBF rankings.

https://www.boxingscene.com/rankings/

Was showing him as #9 on what I looked at. My bad.

Looking forward to Spence vs Lazslo Toth in 2020. What bs ass rankings these mfers got.

[ShoulderRoll]

Was showing him as #9 on what I looked at. My bad.

Looking forward to Spence vs Lazslo Toth in 2020. What bs ass rankings these mfers got.

They would be awesome rankings if the big promoters would be more willing to let their fighters be bound by the strict and transparent IBF rules.

But for some reason they prefer the "let's make up the rules as we go" of the WBC, WBA, and WBO.

[Gate keeper]

Funny it's that way because they're about the only ones who enforce mandatory fights the way they should be.

But it's a list of guys you've never heard of and when they get their title chance they usually get blown out.

I agree with this. But this is exactly the problem with the IBF. If there's simply no good manadatory for the world champion, other sanctioning bodies have enough sense to simply not strictly enforce a meaningless fight. I mean this is a business after all. You actually need be impressive too to get a shot. Sometimes they'll even wait for an impressive contender so the #1 ranked fighter can prove themselves like with that guy Charlo fought to be GGG's manadatory, I forget his name.

IBF is the only one who will strictly enforce a manadatory against a nobody and completely wastes everyone's time. Ocampo wasn't even number 1 ranked, it's just that no one was rated for higher rankings, similar thing occurred with Doninic Wade since Tureano Johnson was injured.

I mean how the hell do you justify forcing Spence(a top 10 p4p fighter) to fight a guy like that, 22 years old never faced a top 20 fighter, has no impressive amateur record, never fought outside his home country and is not even the number 1 in your rankings. But then threaten to strip the champ if he doesn't fight him, it's just plain ******. I used to give Mayweather a lot of crap for vacating the IBF belt and not trying to unify titles. Now I know why he didn't. He'd never have made as much money if he had to waste time with these ****** mandatories from the IBF.

[buddyr]

Ever since the IBF was caught up in the bs boxing scandal, they’ve gone to schit! It’s pretty sad. I mean no disrespect, but I don’t even recognize most fighters on their lists. Mostly you can’t find their top 15 on any of the other sanctioning bodies lists either. They bite. Unless you are their Champ

really all the belts are bad. The IBF currently with this ranking bs, Arum owns the WBO, King still has clout in the WBC but Dlh has taken over the payments he used to send to Suliaman before his death, and the WBA is just a complet joke with their regular and super champion bs. In a perfect world, we'd do away with all of these worthless leather and brass straps and the best fight the best