The IBF rankings are just a laugh

[deram]

...but also sad at the same time...

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Look for instance at SMW.

CHAMPION : Alejandro Berrio Colombia
WBA : Anthony Mundine Australia
WBC : Mikkel Kessler Denmark
WBO :Joe Calzaghe England
1 NOT RATED
2 NOT RATED
3 Luciene Bute France
4 Carl Froch
5 Dennis Inkin Germany
6 Jeff Lacy United States
7 Jurgen Brahmer Germany
8 Robert Stieglitz Germany
9 Edison Miranda Colombia
10 David Gogiya Russian Federation
11 Sakio Bika South Africa
12 Anthony Hanshaw United States
13 Vitaly Tsypko Ukraine
14 Sergey Tatevosyan Russian Federation
15 Danillo Haussler Germany

They put a random country on half the fighters in their top 15 (Bika is from Camaroun, Bute from Romainia/Canada, Inkin is Russian, Calzaghe is Welsh etc.) and others they can't even be bothered to have a guess (Froch).

Is this really a serious international boxing organisation?:think

[PH|LLA]

its a fucking disgrace

[MilesP]

what's even more baffling is that the IBF, WBO and WBC seemingly refuse to rank Mundine, arguably the 3rd best SMW in the world.

[BigEars]

what's even more baffling is that the IBF, WBO and WBC seemingly refuse to rank Mundine, arguably the 3rd best SMW in the world.

They can't he holds the 'regular' WBA title .

[MilesP]

They can't he holds the 'regular' WBA title .


They didn't rank him before he picked up that belt either.

[FlatNose]

The irony of all this is that the IBF was originally formed to save boxing from the crooked bullshit and politics of the WBA and the WBC.Yeah, right.

[Stinky gloves]

Miranda moved up?

[tpuz]

Miranda moved up?Miranda is #9 in SM.
Why isn't Pavlik ranked at all by the IBF, he beat the #1????

[sean]

i think the number 2 ranked in that ibf list beats the number 15 on points.

[Azriel]

Have you seen how they write Bute's first name? sounds like a girl. Especially when pronounced in French.

They should just have one division per weight in Boxing, period.

[geppy]

The WBA is the worst with it's Super Champion and normal champion nonsense. After Ibragimov and Chagaev unify, they are just going to create another WBA belt.

The WBC has been hustling alot of fighters, for example Kelly Pavlik. They had him fight an eliminator, Pavlik won , then they made him fight another eliminator against Miranda. Oleg Maskaev now has 3 mandatory challengers, which is even against their own WBC's rules that they make.

[.trunzx]

3 Luciene Bute France

Not only is his name not "Luciene", hes not from france.

IBF :patsch

[AJAX]

The WBA is the worst with it's Super Champion and normal champion nonsense. After Ibragimov and Chagaev unify, they are just going to create another WBA belt.

The WBC has been hustling alot of fighters, for example Kelly Pavlik. They had him fight an eliminator, Pavlik won , then they made him fight another eliminator against Miranda. Oleg Maskaev now has 3 mandatory challengers, which is even against their own WBC's rules that they make.

I can already see what they are doing, they see how much fans are demanding unification so they make the list of mandatories to prevent unification from happening.their trying to tie up that belt for years.Mcall will die of old age before he get's his shot.