Worst Boxing Org/Sanctioning Body of 2015?

[bigjavi973]

you should put in multiple votes. IBF for stripping Fury, WBC for its constant bs & WBA for its extra extra belts.

[Eff Pandas]

I can't not think of the IBF, WBA, WBC & WBO as co conspirators in the fleecing of boxing & raping of the term champion in boxing so I can't make much effort to judge which part of that turd is the least appealing.

[boxinghead530]

They are all part of boxings problem and they all suck. But the worse of the worse is IBF and not just because they stripped Fury.

The IBF has been a second rate garbage belt for years now. I remember in the 80's when the WBO first started they were the second rate garbage belt and were considered outside the loop of the big three champs(WBC, WBA, IBF). But over these last few years IBF has surpassed m and is IMO the worse belt to hold out of all the four.

[LoadedWraps]

IBF for giving Martin one year to fulfil his mandatory obligations.

Yea that's ridiculous too...

[aboutfkntime]

For aboutfkntime

Well, even after thinking about it, I still have no clue.

I picked the WBC, because they ignored Klitschko for a DECADE.

But really no idea LMAO

[aboutfkntime]

Whilst I agree, the IBF decision to strip a champion who has won their belt in the ring because he is going to defend it against the champion that has reigned with their belt for 10 years since taking it off of Chris Bryd, is beyond ******.

Coupled with having Charles ranked in their #3 spot (with no one at #2, so effectively as the 2nd best heavyweight in the world) is just crazy.

However, in the December rankings, the WBA managed the following:

1 - Had Briggs, Oquendo, Ustinov & De Mori all ranked in their top 10 (none of those feature in the top ten of any of the other three bodies, the Ring, Box Rec or the Transnational Boxing Rankings top 10's).

2 - Didin't have Glazkov in their top 15 (despite him ranking 1, 3, 5, 5, 7 & 8 with the other bodies mentioned above).

3 - Don't rank Huck as a top 10 cruiserweight, but have #1, #2 & #3 ranked contenders (Shumenov, Dorticos & Larghetti) that fail to acheive a top 10 ranking with any other body.

4 - Have Valera as their #1 LHW, again a fighter not in the top 10 for any other body.

5 - Have Feigenbutz as their #1 SMW, again a fighter not in the top 10 for any other body.

6 - Have Blanco as their #1 MW, again a fighter not in the top 10 for any other body.

7 - Have Culcay as their #1 JMW, again a fighter not in the top 10 for any other body.

8 - Have Avanesyan as their #1 WW, again a fighter not in the top 10 for any other body.

9 - At Super Featherweight they set a record, EIGHT OF THEIR TOP 10 fail to record a spot in the rankings for any of the other six bodies / rankings.

10 - At Featherweight SEVEN OF THEIR TOP 10 are not ranked contenders for any of the other 6.

Of the 170 fighters that have a top 10 ranking across the 17 weight divisions with the WBA, 80 (that is 47.1%) of them are not ranked by either the WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring, Box Rec or TNBR as top 10 contenders (the same can be said for 69 of the WBO's top 10, 52 with the WBC, 46 with the IBF, 18 Box Rec, 8 TNBR and just 4 of the Ring's top ten) .

Of the 85 fighters ranked Top 5 contenders by the WBA, 35 (thats 41.2%) of the them are not TOP TEN with any other body (wbo - 28, WBC & IBF 13 each, TBR - 2, whilst both Box Rec and the Ring can say that every fighter that the rank top 5 across all weight divisions are ranked at least top 10 by their rival / contemporary ranking systems).

On that basis, the IBF is actually the most consistent of the governing bodies for ranking actual contenders (nearly 75% of their top 10 contenders appear with at least one other body).

The WBA just makes it up as they go along.

More information is on my website:

Absolute gold, thanks for doing the math

And good point about the IBF, but in reality, you are stating that they are the least laughable..... that is especially obvious with the Martin situation.

[aboutfkntime]

you should put in multiple votes. IBF for stripping Fury, WBC for its constant bs & WBA for its extra extra belts.

It really is a turd-polishing contest.

I still have no idea who is the worst

[NEETzsche]

i feel like of the big four, the WBO could most easily be done away with. they are seldom involved in big fights and virtually just exist to hand out titles to top rank and queensbury promotions. it's not uncommon for cards put on by arum and warren to exclusively feature various WBO titles

i reckon the IBF's weak rankings are at least partly down to certain fighters and promoters swerving them because they tend to actually enforce their rules nowadays

[bigjavi973]

It really is a turd-polishing contest.

I still have no idea who is the worst

I would say WBC cuz they bullshit too much.

Some say WBA has more belts.... but let's see:

WBA Super
WBA Reg
WBA Interim
WBA #1 contender

WBC World
WBC Silver
WBC Interim
WBC #1 contender

[BostonGuy]

I haven't really been paying attention - why did the IBF strip Fury?