PBC trying to get their own set of belts sanctioned, good or bad idea?

[MDPopescu]

How many weight classes are there?

Haymon's got 3 legit titleholders? One of which is the same guy for 2 divisions. The other is Stevenson.

Nobody would consider his titles legit anyway just more useless crap, I'd bet you that at the next Stevenson fight there's going to be no mention of Kovalev (or possibly Ward), Quillin winning another 160 trinket but there's going to be no mention of Cotto/GGG/Canelo...

Haymon has a long term plan (and the financial support for at least three years -- in case he is not stopped by the judiciary)... Therefore, Haymon doesn't pay attention to some 'individual fighters' -- he assumes that these fighters would have to comply to his terms, eventually...

[orechia]

Seems like all the boxers really love the guy. i have never heard a boxer say a bad thing about haymon. cant say the same for Arum, King or De La Hoya.

[PlasterWraps]

Haymon has a long term plan (and the financial support for at least three years -- in case he is not stopped by the judiciary)... Therefore, Haymon doesn't pay attention to some 'individual fighters' -- he assumes that these fighters would have to comply to his terms, eventually...

I could just see this confusing people even more then, so no good can come of this.

[Chrismart]

How long into his 'plan' does he get before he introduces ladder and steel cage matches ?

[New England]

what al haymon does and has done may well be deemed illegal in the coming years.

[MDPopescu]

I could just see this confusing people even more then, so no good can come of this.

... of course it's 'confusing people'... it's part of Haymon's game...

[bigjavi973]

IBO is trying to get in the mix as well. You don't see no one getting mad "oh another belt".

[MDPopescu]

what al haymon does and has done may well be deemed illegal in the coming years.

... or 'may well be not deemed as illegal'...

(I just don't know how a U.S. court would rule against someone who tries to 'protect' the U.S. boxing market...)

[mathed]

Nah, it would be a worthless trinket. Like a joke shop belt.
Boxing is already saturated with titles. Way too many...adding more to the mix only makes things worse.

They are going to try and convince the general public that the PBC belts are the only belts around or of meaning. Once that happens, they have their boxers stop competing for any of the sanctioned belts. They then isolate their fighters from the rest of boxing and write their own rules.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

The sport doesn't need more belts or more sanctioning bodies. It needs to consolidate all bodies into one, have 1 world champ in each division.

I would like to see weights adjusted for all classes.

Sanctioning bodies aren't gonna combine into one. Greed. Too much money to be made.