WBC Provides Email for Ratings Inquiries

Boxing is a unique and fascinating sport; without a doubt, it’s one of the disciplines that has evolved the most throughout history. The rules have changed drastically, succeeding in transforming an act of pure savagery into an art called “The Sweet Science.”

There are 18 divisions, ranging from heavyweight to strawweight. World champions must face ranked boxers, and that’s where these lists become interesting, significant, and relevant.

Don Jose Sulaimán instituted the WBC rantings in 1968. Since then, they have been compiled month after month, making this one of the bodie’s highest-priority activities.

The WBC Ratings Committee is comprised of honorable, honest, and highly knowledgeable boxing figures. Its members span countries across different parts of the world: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, England, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Venezuela, and the United States.

Continuing with the transparency of the WBC rankings, the body  is making an email account available to boxers, promoters, managers, and the boxing community in general, where all inquiries will be addressed:

wbcratings@wbcboxing.com

How the Ratings Committee Works

The monthly results of ranked boxers and the significant results of unranked boxers are listed and compiled. Each analysis includes the boxers’ records, the highlights of their fights, and often a list of their previous results. Month after month, the results of an average of 150 to 200 fights are analyzed.

Ranking boxers is a very complex task that requires meticulous knowledge of boxing, common sense, analytical skills, impartiality, objectivity, absolute honesty, and a sense of fairness. There is a very interesting procedure for analyzing each case; records are simply numbers, and these can be very misleading.

The Committee’s Process:

• Weekly, ranking committee members compile fight results and other information related to fighters in their region, as well as global activity.
• The Chairman of the Ratings Committee prepares an agenda with possible ranking actions, which is distributed to all committee members five days before the monthly virtual meeting.
• The first Sunday of each month, a monthly virtual meeting takes place, which can last up to seven hours. During this, a first draft is compiled and sent to the committee members.
• Members provide feedback to create a second, and sometimes a third, draft.
• The final draft is approved by our President Mauricio Sulaiman, making it ready for publication.