All Boxing Fans: WHo really cares about Belts?

[El Malo.]

Belts don't mean squad now. Not when their being given away just so they can make a buck n a fake legacy.

[daggum]

if there are no belts there is nothing to strive for. i like to see champions with belts full of diamonds and other gems.

yeah it would be nice to have 1 belt in every division. but having 4 to 5 plus interim and super champions is a disgrace. imagine in football if they had like 5 superbowl champs every year. who really is the best?

"i am!"
"no i am!"
"no i am!"
"hey should we play each other and settle this?"
"ummm no let's play some crappy team no ones ever heard of and make gobs of money!"
"yeah good idea we all win(except the fans **** them) hahahah!"

[daggum]

This pretty much.

The belts aren't everything of themselves, but they are guidelines which keep the sport structured.

keep the sport fractured.

[daggum]

I say there should be 2 belts per each division. The reason for this, is because styles makes fight. a boxer might have another boxers number and wont allow him to progress. its difficult to explain what i mean, but 2 per division.

i don't give a crap about a boxers progression. what is this the day care center? every boxer has to get to 50-0 before they are put in with someone who isn't a corpse? if you fight and lose to the top guy more than once just don't fight him again or wait till he loses and fight the guy that beat him.

we got the media creating stars before they even fight anyone. you beat mathew hatton and you are star? jeff lacy is the next tyson even though he has no boxing talent? the best fighters should be the stars. it really is pretty simple but they have it all backwards.

having 2 belts won't solve anything because the top 2 guys will each have a belt and never fight each other. they will just fight the b level retreads just like what happens now. if you had one belt then you could have that guy fighting the most worthy challenger every fight. if he beats him then move on to the next best. if he refuses to fight someone then strip his ass. no fake retirement frauds in this sport. the other guys in the top 10 would have to fight each other to earn a shot. the most worthy guy would earn the shot at the belt holder. obviously rankings should be decided by an unbiased panel or something instead of a slimy promoter/organization. now every guy in the top 10 has his own bum parade going and is just waiting for a bigger fight to come along. fighting each other would rid the sport of these terrible mismatches that happen over and over again. not only would we have a clear champ but we would get great fights all the time.

[Pez]

i don't care. if a champion loses his belt, he just grabs a different one off an unknown who just happens to have one of the belts. if it's that easy to get a belt then it doesn't mean much. the only thing that has the slightest significance is the lineal champion and even then it doesn't mean a whole lot since we all know triangle theories don't work.

[esex]

Even 'lineal' championship doesn't mean **** . See George Foreman's reign in the 90s , he avoided every semi decent opponent and won it from a man who didn't really win it from Holyfield , when Holyfield got a heart attack in the ring .
There are more examples to the 'lineal' and 'Ring' titles being meaningless , like Hopkins' reign @ LHW , when he defended it a 170 3 times , losing it in the third , and cheating vs. Wrinky Wright without even getting penalized .

[StarshipTrooper]

8 weight classes and 1 belt in each = structured.

17 weight classes and 4 or more belts in each = chaos.

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