Who started this? - Pad ur record, win a belt, defend against bums

becoming a trend? is breathing air and drinking water becoming a trend as well? this is how it's always been bruh . . . :lol1: Too main stream

Seems like the Haymon path, win a belt then disappear into obscurity fighting bums for millions.

Its nothing new, the difference is the boxing world media & fans never propped up these kinds of fighters as if they were anything special, just because they had a belt a really good record. And quite frankly the whole thing is overrated now also IMO, Danny Jacobs and Peter Quillin are the perfect example of that. They have belts, they have wins, but no matter how hard they try, they aren't anything close to stars, and no one is taking seriously that there fight is some kind of big fight. You want to be a real star you need to fight real opponents. And that's why Haymon hasn't built any real stars yet.

Promoters and advisors, coupled with the type of fighters who see themselves as businessmen and not sportsmen.

With the WBC, the WBA, the IBF and the WBO champions in each weight class you have 4 chances of a weak champion. When they are building up a Broner or a Wilder they aim for the weakest belt holder. Even better is to have the guy they are building up fight a weak opponent for a vacant belt. Broner just beat a very weak opponent for a vacant belt. Is Broner as good as Postol or Crawford? I doubt it. broner has actually taken on good competition and has the losses to show for it

Officially.. decades. But if you want to be technical, Roman gladiators probably factored in it somewhere :-)

I've started to notice it during Sven Ottke "reign".

Dunno, but Deontay Wilder has perfected it!

How long have you been following the sport? This is how boxing works. Even Mike Tyson's punchout on Nintendo worked this way. You beat bums like Glass Joe and Don Flamenco before you get your title shot at the end. You have to realize, in a 40-50 fight career, there will only be 3-4 elite, hall of fame caliber opponents available. The rest of it is title defenses against top contenders.

becoming a trend? is breathing air and drinking water becoming a trend as well? this is how it's always been bruh . . . No it's not been like this before with demanding 155 catchweight mandatorys at 160 and that is simply a first and before you say yes there's been catchweights but never demanding it when they have to face a mandatory. ..yeah you have had plenty of fighters go the easy route and pad there record even Joe Louis had bum of the month on his record, but he never demanded max Baer come in at 200lbs did he, so yeah I believe what I see it's getting worse with fighters giving up belts, with jumping networks to avoid certain fighters, with fighters blatantly not weighing what they should do for that weight, Chavez jnr,Paul smith,deontay wilder,Santa cruz, Stevenson etc and canelo and cotto to that list as well

With the WBC, the WBA, the IBF and the WBO champions in each weight class you have 4 chances of a weak champion. When they are building up a Broner or a Wilder they aim for the weakest belt holder. Even better is to have the guy they are building up fight a weak opponent for a vacant belt. Broner just beat a very weak opponent for a vacant belt. Is Broner as good as Postol or Crawford? I doubt it.

That sounds like Wilder. He fought one number 10 world rated guy to get a belt. Everybody else he ever fought was rated 30th or lower. He is title defenses have also been against guys rated 30th or lower.

I don't think it's a new concept at all. You can look at fighters coming up with absolutely insane records before anyone actually hears of them and some of them can fight and some of them can't, but that's been going on for years and it has become more prevalent now and I don't think it's going anywhere. I do think the 'belt' part of the equation may slowly be phased out, but yeah people are going to continue to pad records in hopes of getting big money fights before proving whether or not they can actually fight.

It started in the last couple decades. Multiple titles and no one has to fight the best in their division. Pick and choose your opponents.

becoming a trend? is breathing air and drinking water becoming a trend as well? this is how it's always been bruh . . .

The promoters ..They are in charge of making the fights .. Some protect their fighters and milk them before throwing them in with someone credible