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BoxingRanks.com Announces New International Boxing Ratings as Compiled by Steve Farhood.


Sports Editors Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news
newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper
 and Boxing Writers

NEW YORK--(BW SportsWire)--Oct. 1, 2001

BoxingRanks.com (http://www.BoxingRanks.com) announced today that it has commenced new international boxing ratings as compiled by Steve Farhood Steve Farhood served as editor-in-chief of "The Ring (magazine)" and "KO Magazine". He has also served as First Vice President of the Boxing Writers' Association of America.  for all seventeen professional boxing Noun 1. professional boxing - boxing for money
sport - the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs - fighting with the fists
 weight divisions.

Howie Sirota, President of BoxingRanks.com, said "I am very excited to have Steve Farhood compiling com·pile  
tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles
1. To gather into a single book.

2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources:
 these professional boxing rankings. Steve is acting as an independent contractor A person who contracts to do work for another person according to his or her own processes and methods; the contractor is not subject to another's control except for what is specified in a mutually binding agreement for a specific job. , has sole and exclusive control over the panelists, and is in short the Czar of the rankings, which will be available online at http://www.BoxingRanks.com, and can be reproduced without charge by anyone in the world. I believe that these rankings will quickly become the only credible recognized international professional boxing rankings, and that there is no longer any need for or reason for the existence of the corrupt alphabet-soup groups."

Steve Farhood said "I am hopeful that these boxing ratings will be well received, and I look forward to publishing the ratings each month. I have assembled as·sem·ble  
v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles

v.tr.
1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury.

2.
 a panel of 18 boxing experts around the world who are knowledgeable, experienced, honest and independent and in whom I have confidence. I am compiling the panelists' votes using the online survey technology platform of thevoice.com (http://www.thevoice.com) but I am totally and completely in charge of and responsible for these ratings. Everyone who knows me knows what that means... I stand behind these ratings, which will absolutely, positively, be the best international boxing ratings I am capable of compiling."

Steve Farhood is one of the most respected people in boxing today, and has frequently been proposed as the rankings "Czar" to clean up the corruption in professional boxing today. He has extensive experience compiling honest, independent boxing rankings, including RING Magazine and Fight Game Magazine, and is a well-known boxing commentator.

BoxingRanks.com (http://www.BoxingRanks.com) was founded by Howie Sirota, who previously published "Honest Howie's Boxing Rankings" and later the Boxing Writers' Rankings Poll (BWRP BWRP British Women Romantic Poets ), before organizing the new BoxingRanks.com International Ratings as compiled by Steve Farhood.

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