Will the IBO ever become important?

The fighter makes the title, not the other way around.

I'm all for less belts & less ppv's. I member the days being champion were prestigious & big fights at the top were commonplace. Now you can buy a guy a title & a big fight means when the (next) ppv start that retarded fans go searching for is found. Even if it's against a can.

wow UBF isn't even on Wikipedia. mind you, WBO was like that once, and they are regarded the smallest of the major titles today.

I personally only recognize the UBF championship http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJHCH_vrIzE/Tl59lWH7d-I/AAAAAAAAADw/eRH-qFd8VfI/s1600/Our+Champ.jpg

I was about to say the same thing. Guys are already calling themselves legitimate world champions based on it. It's the next WBO. Utterly appalling. Five 'world champions' in one division. 8 if you count the wba has 3 per weight class

Depends on who the champ is. After Manny beat Hatton his fanbase tried to justify them as a top boxing organization. Since then I havent really heard much talk about them. In my eyes they are a second tier organization. Back in the day the only belts that mattered were IBF, WBC, and WBA. I dont even remember how the WBO got elavated but it did. It's basically since that fight that it really took off. Of all the good Pac did, he might have negated it all by legitimising another bull****, corrupt, world championship, sanctioning organisation. You could argue that Pac is the ruination of modern boxing because of this. :banana:

It already is. Tarver and other fighters were referred to as "world champions" for holding the belt, and ESPN now includes it in its listing of champions. I find all of them disgusting. I was about to say the same thing. Guys are already calling themselves legitimate world champions based on it. It's the next WBO. Utterly appalling. Five 'world champions' in one division.

You've got to take it seriously, Danny Green holds the cruiser IBO.

I hope it never does but the WBC became more recognised than the WBA. Whoever thought the IBF would become a big title? Then the wbo? Fighters make titles, without Ali who'd have cared about the WBC? Without Holmes would we have recognised the IBF? British and european fighters made the wbo a title by winning other titles but choosing to only defend the wbo, michalczewski, hamed, Calzaghe etc. who knows who'll choose to start defending the IBO, we've already had Lewis now wlad as IBO heavyweight champ, depending on who wins it next

like we need another organization. Next thing you know,the WBU will become a world title. I wouldn't mind if it replaced the WBC

Depends on who the champ is. After Manny beat Hatton his fanbase tried to justify them as a top boxing organization. Since then I havent really heard much talk about them. In my eyes they are a second tier organization. Back in the day the only belts that mattered were IBF, WBC, and WBA. I dont even remember how the WBO got elavated but it did.

It already is. Tarver and other fighters were referred to as "world champions" for holding the belt, and ESPN now includes it in its listing of champions. I find all of them disgusting. I didn't see the IBO here http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/champions

It already is. Tarver and other fighters were referred to as "world champions" for holding the belt, and ESPN now includes it in its listing of champions. I find all of them disgusting.