I don't acknowledge the legitimacy of the "Junior" and "Super" weight classes. These divisions where invented by the sanctioning bodies to create roughly double the number of champions out there, which doubles the number of title fights, which in turn doubles the amount of money that flows into the alphabet boys coffers via sanctioning fees. These divisions are not recognised in my ATG lists. Fighters who fough predominately at one of these phony weight classes gets rated at the next highest legitmate weight class. For example, a fighter who fought primarily at Junior-Welterweight would be rated at Welterweight.
Guy was handed the unified heavy title over the overweight Buster in his last bout on his way to almost losing his life in a diabetic coma a few years later. It was Tyson who did the heavy lifting, unifying 4 belts in 4 separate fights, a feat still unmatched.
Thank goodness for the alphabets or 'Vander wouldn't be the 4x heavy champ everyone always shouts about. Heck, Valuev is already the 2X champ and looks to be going strong for another 5 yrs and might match 'Vander if Ruiz don't beat him to it.
Well, I don't want to crack too hard on 'mander'Vander, poor fellas got enough problems to bother the Pope these days. Just havin' some "Jimmy pop corn and I don't care" sport with Poet, don't ya know it!.......
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