Comments Thread For: Fury vs. Usyk: Why Undisputed Matters

[BoxingUpdates]

Here's a list of names for you to absorb: Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Patterson again, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ali a second time, Leon Spinks, Ali a third time, Larry Holmes, Michael Spinks, Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Rid**** Bowe, Holyfield again, Michael Moorer, Foreman a second time 20 years later, Shannon Briggs, Lennox Lewis, Hasim Rahman, Lewis again, Wladimir Klitschko, and Tyson Fury. Here's another list of names you may find interesting: Ernie Terrell, Mike Weaver, Gerrie Coetzee, Tony Tubbs, Francesco Damiani, Tommy Morrison, Michael Bentt, Herbie Hide, Oliver McCall, Bruce Seldon, Henry Akinwande, John Ruiz, Corrie Sanders, Lamon Brewster, Nikolai Valuev, Siarhei Liakhovich, Oleg Maskaev, Ruslan Chagaev, Sultan Ibragimov, Sam Peter, Bermane Stiverne, Charles Martin, Lucas Browne, Manuel Charr, and Trevor Bryan.
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[harry-greb]

Great article. Lineal title is all that matters!!!!

[Monty Fisto]

Good article. To paraphrase the Bard, what a piece of work boxing is...

[Bob]

I like the American Football analogy, I've been saying the same for year's using football (soccer) the same way & going further with the pre fight rematch clauses, imagine every football game having a rematch clause, like huh?

Maybe if paper's like this & fans like ourselves that care enough to read about it, called belt holder's exactly that & stopped calling them world champions we'd make a start at getting somewhere. Perhaps Turki could make an undesputed/lineal belt making the other's stepping stones or hopefully obselete, or The Ring belt could become more official.

These 2 are so old I'm caring less & less about undesputed, it's been so disrespected by recent belt holder's, promoter's, alphabelts & broadcasters they don't deserve our loyalty.

[A.B Counterhooks]

Quality article good job

[pollywog]

Nice work!...though Joseph Parker is the man who won't ever fight the man who beat the man out of loyalty to friendship and his team.

Usyk though, is fair game. Sadly, I think this is Usyks last battle as he has an actual war to fight.

[sidefx996]

Please stop mentioning Lucas Browne as a "heavyweight champion." The fact that it was the ****** WBA "regular" belt aside (and I understand you're making point), he pissed hot both A & B samples right after the fight and was stripped and the fight ruled a no contest. For good measure he pissed hot once again both A & B samples 8 months later as well.

[Toffee]

Important because it ties all loose ends up. Win this one and you're the best.

But it will be very fleeting and possibly unsatisfying. An undisputed champion now probably means we don't see another for a long, long time.

It amazes me that boxing can't get its act together. The best two fighters meeting in the ring shouldn't be this unusual.