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Boxing Rankings Spotlight: Donaire Leads the Pack at Bantamweight
Right now, my rankings page is somewhat sloppily out-of-date in certain divisions, because I fell behind keeping up with the maintenance in January/February, but I'm getting it back on track. This morning I wanted to take a glance at the best division in boxing for my money, the bantamweights. As...
WBO shows why sanctioning body rankings are a joke and their titles mean nothing
Sometimes, "newbies" to boxing wonder why many of us, including this blog, are so against acknowledging titleholders in the WBC, WBO, IBF and WBA as "champions," and only doing that with the lineal championships, which are recognized by Ring Magazine. Part of the confusion may be that so many of...
Ranking the Junior Bantamweights: February 2009
The 115-pound division has been one of the sport's best and most action-packed over the last couple of years, and the re-rise of the monster known as Vic Darchinyan has redefined the weight class since last August. Darchinyan's arrival coincides with the division sort of emptying out at the top...
P4P Top 20 Update: Vic on the move, Joe on the outs
Seems like we just did this a couple weeks ago, right? That's 'cause we did. Not a lot has happened in that time overall, but Vic Darchinyan won again in very impressive fashion, and the No. 2 man, Joe Calzaghe, has retired from the sport. So there are some re-shufflings afoot. 1. Manny Pacquiao...
Ranking the Junior Welterweights: January 2009
Seven pounds south of boxing's glory division lie the junior welterweights, a one-star show that will soon get a second big-name attraction when Manny Pacquiao arrives to fight the division's top man. It's a fairly deep, interesting division, even though it does lack names and gate attractions....
Ranking the Welterweights: January 2009
The welterweight division is constantly touted as the sport's best, but the truth is with recent evacuations of key fighters, it's really no deeper up top than a lot of other weight classes. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is semi-retired ("retired" say he and Leonard Ellerbe), so he's out of the discussion....
P4P Top 20 Update: Sugar Shane back home in the top 10
This list was last updated on November 10, 2008 -- a lot has happened since, and a lot is coming up in February. I get the feeling it won't be too long before we do another update, but with such a drastic shift coming out of last night, an update was completely necessary. There are some real...
Bad Left Hook Top Ten: Super Middleweight (December 2008)
1. Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KO)WBA TitleholderLast Five Fights: Danilo Haussler (W-KO-3), Dimitri Sartison (W-KO-12), Joe Calzaghe (L-UD-12), Librado Andrade (W-UD-12), Markus Beyer (W-KO-3)Next: TBA With Calzaghe having stepped down from his perch atop the super middleweight division to rule at...
P4P Top 20 Update: Out with Mijares, in with Darchinyan
There'll be a lot of amendments made through the rest of the year, but here's a quick update of my P4P Top 20 following Joe Calzaghe's win over Roy Jones and Cristian Mijares' loss to Vic Darchinyan. 1. Manny Pacquiao (1) Stays in his spot, as most guys will. A win over Oscar de la Hoya in...
Ranking the Middleweights: October 2008
Early this year, I ranked the middleweights and discussed just how shallow the division truly was. Though very top-heavy with Pavlik, Abraham and Wright, there was little in the way of real threats after that. The song remains the same. 1. Kelly Pavlik (34-1, 30 KO, Middleweight Champion,...
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