1.   And no one is crazy about the organizations that rank fighters and sanction championship bouts.

2.   Legislation is pending in the Senate that would overhaul professional boxing from the personal contracts boxers sign with promoters to the rating system that ranks fighters.

3.   No one is crazy about the organizations that rank fighters and sanction championship bouts.

4.   Some envision that one day the ABC, under the watchful eye of federal regulators, could oversee every aspect of the sport and actually rank fighters.

5.   That is vastly different from the way it is today, when it seems fighters are ranked for every reason but ones that are objective and consistent.

6.   The grand jury is looking into whether the IBF accepted payoffs in return for ranking certain fighters.

7.   They rank fighters, which theoretically provides a ladder to the top.

8.   Heavyweight Riddick Bowe is ignored by those who rank fighters for the various alphabetic sanctioning associations.

9.   Kushner, owner of CKP Productions Inc., admitted making payments to the IBF over a seven-year period to get the sanctioning body to rank fighters.