not many cause GBP doesn't even have that many relevant fighters
I love Canelo, one of my favs but he is still the MW champ in the opinion of Ring. Like... c'mon... how?He fought his last fight in 154 and they rank him there too at #1
and being GBP rigged not only means that they might favor GBP fighters in their rankings but also (more likely imo) that they (will) rank PBC fighters lower.
We're talking about a media outlet which has a contributor who told to a guy who is in a high position in GBP, the company which owns the magazine, that "they" need Fightnews and Boxingscene too to slander Haymon.
Even if you look at their rankings right now and you don't find huge injustice I think the things mentioned above makes it clear that they wouldn't be afraid to live with such tools cause they're looking at it like they would be at war with Haymon/PBC and you can expect some fukkery toward that side anytime and if it don't already affects their ratings it will... as long as they are under GBP.
And it's just an ethical decision for me... If a magazine proven to be a tool in the hand of a promotional company I will stop rely on them as a news or rating source cause that just doesn't work for me...
Before those mails I thought they might be biased but not actually conspiring against a promoter. You're journalists you're supposed to be neutral. We have too many journalist who openly stan or hate fighters, promoters or networks anyway...
ps: as for TR, RNS and etc... they are not conspiring against those companies so there's no possibility or low possibility that they intentionally rank them lower now or later.
Which PBC fighter is ranked too low in their division by RING Magazine?
And Canelo just defended his RING Middleweight Championship/Lineal Middleweight Championship vs Amir Khan and then beat Liam Smith at Junior Middleweight to retain his #1 ranking....unless you're claiming Canelo shouldn't be #1 at JMW, even though he has the best JMW resume by far.