Ring Magazine New Rankings: Deontay Wilder #3, Tyson Fury #2, Anthony Joshua #1

[Kezzer]

How’s AJ land at #1 after beating a Povetkin?

*yawn*.

Holds four belts.

Beat Povetkin, Parker and Klitschko who were all top 3 within the ring at the time of fight.
Beat Takam, Brezeale, Whyte who are all arguably top10 fighters too.


I think moving fury to #2 is fair to be honest given the general view (over 90%?) that fury beat Wilder.

Still we obviously want two of those top 3 to fight next and then whoever is left out fight the winner by year end of course

[KillaMane26]

Canelo's promoter owns the magazine. Literally.

Yea ikr....smh

[Robbie Barrett]

The Ring is owned by Golden Boy Promotions. Literally. How does anybody still take their ratings seriously?

Well we cant take boxrec seriously, they accept robberies.

The Ring Magazine is acknowledging who 90%+ of the fans thought won. Wilder wouldn't even be #3 if they didn't rob Fury.

[DuckAdonis]

That's exactly how I have it because the fight was officially a draw and Fury still showed alot of vulnerabilities despite winning clearly. If Fury does even better in a rematch and wins officially then he is my #1 guy at Heavyweight

[Robbie Barrett]

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The whole panel on Ring Magazine had Fury winning so despite the decision being a draw, they have ranked Fury higher than Wilder.

TBRB also have Fury ahead of Wilder

http://www.tbrb.org/all-rankings/

[Toffee]

He didn't land number 1 for beating Povetkin. Ring has had AJ number 1 at heavyweight for years for beating Martin, Whyte Parker, Povetkin etc. Before Fury and Wilder fought Ring had AJ number 1, Wilder number 2 and Fury number 7. After the fight they still have AJ number 1, Wilder number 2 and they moved Fury up to number 3. They can't get AJ's number 1 spot by fighting each other. They have to actually beat AJ in the ring to take his number 1 spot. When AJ fought Povetkin Ring had Povetkin at 3rd or 4th well above Fury at 7th.

I understood number one is just the ranking. They can do anything they want with that.

It's the Champion which needs to be taken in the ring. And there's no champion right now is there?

With the sudden move for Ring and TBRB to make Joshua and Fury 1 and 2 I wonder whether they know something we don't... that the fight is about to be announced and they'll finally get to name a Champion again.

[Robbie Barrett]

I understood number one is just the ranking. They can do anything they want with that.

It's the Champion which needs to be taken in the ring. And there's no champion right now is there?

With the sudden move for Ring and TBRB to make Joshua and Fury 1 and 2 I wonder whether they know something we don't... that the fight is about to be announced and they'll finally get to name a Champion again.

Not sudden. It's the first update since Fury beat Wilder.

[N/A]

GBP have no horse in this race, so who cares?

They've consistently slighted Showtime's fighters whenever possible and have played favorites with their ratings and championships to harm Showtime fighters.

If you know something is fundamentally biased and corrupt, why still point to it as an independent arbiter? Makes no sense.

[N/A]

Well we cant take boxrec seriously, they accept robberies.

The quirks of Boxrec are still better than the blatant corruption of Ring.

The Ring Magazine is acknowledging who 90%+ of the fans thought won. Wilder wouldn't even be #3 if they didn't rob Fury.

You look idiotic crying robbery when the majority of ringside experts didn't have Fury winning.

Save the tears for an actual robbery. Had Wilder won, you might have had a gripe since only 20% of ringside experts had him winning, but with 40% having a draw, that means 60% didn't have Fury winning. So there's no room to cry "robbery." The official decision was a draw. 60% either had a draw or Wilder winning. Stop being a biased fanboy.

[Robbie Barrett]

The quirks of Boxrec are still better than the blatant corruption of Ring.




You look idiotic crying robbery when the majority of ringside experts didn't have Fury winning.

Save the tears for an actual robbery. Had Wilder won, you might have had a gripe since only 20% of ringside experts had him winning, but with 40% having a draw, that means 60% didn't have Fury winning. So there's no room to cry "robbery." The official decision was a draw. 60% either had a draw or Wilder winning. Stop being a biased fanboy.

All the experts on the TBRB and Ring panels had Fury winning. I'm sure that's well over 100.

Wilder lost, deal with it.