Talk:2017–18 World Boxing Super Series – super middleweight division

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A few comments on the "Participants" sections in both weights that I think should be addressed. Since I didn't make the changes, so I am not in the best spot to make the edits. I think that would fall to Kidsoljah and Fpwlada.

1. For the Boxrec pre-tournament positions, can we give a specific date those are based off of? Since the tournaments started on different dates, do each bracket's base off a different date? Was it when the fields were announced? Article gives no idea what pre-tournament means. Probably best to just give a date the time is taken from.

2. As previously indicated, not all fighter were at the tournament weights. For example, Robert Brant and Mike Perez never fought at super middleweight or cruiserweight respectively. In what weight classes were their and everyone else's weights taken from? Probably a note for each fighter not at the tournament class should do.

When I created these, I based the rankings off TBRB rankings. While I think it creates some problems when the rankings body listed is changed without discussion, I don't think it's a big enough deal to raise it here. In other words, I am fine with Boxrec over TBRB for the sake of WP:CIV. However, I do think the ranking list does need cleaned up as mentioned above to be usable. RonSigPi (talk) 22:08, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I can't really help with that as I didn't make the change. Personally, I preferred the TBRB rankings as they're archived, but never really bothered to bring it up. As far as the weights go, Mike Perez should've been moved to cruiserweight in BoxRec's rankings before the tournament, as he fought at the weight back in June. As far as fighters moving up/down, they don't seem to have a set standard. Brähmer is now listed at super middleweight (despite last fighting at 175) but Brant is still listed as a middleweight. And there's no real way to verify where Skoglund was ranked at the start of the tournament. Maybe Kidsoljah can shed some light on the issue.Fpwlada (talk) 22:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]