01-17-2015, 11:38 PM
Perhaps I'm a little more cynical about what the ranking organizations base their rankings on. I really doubt they see nuanced tweaks to skills in each fight and determine that one fighter is now better than another. Sure they should, but they're not that good. But if a fighter does a demolition job on someone they themselves ranked (irrespective if they were right about that or not) then it makes sense that will improve the fighter's rank.
Costa was a "somebody" with the WBO (previous months number 15), hadnt been KO'd and Parker delivered a highlight reel level KO in 5. Parker moved from 14 to 12 with them for that. Pettaway on the other hand is nobody with any of the alphabets.... If he does the same thing to Pettaway, does he move up 2 notches? I'm guessing 1...
Costa was a "somebody" with the WBO (previous months number 15), hadnt been KO'd and Parker delivered a highlight reel level KO in 5. Parker moved from 14 to 12 with them for that. Pettaway on the other hand is nobody with any of the alphabets.... If he does the same thing to Pettaway, does he move up 2 notches? I'm guessing 1...