Name boxers who were stripped of their title belts by corrupt alphabet organizations

**Scott9945** · 01-01-2015, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by Galileo

Name boxers who was stripped of their world title belts.

Leon Spinks - refusing to fight Ken Norton (WBC)
Bobby Chacon - refusing to fight Hector Camacho (WBC)
Javier Castillejo - refusing to fight Fernando Vargas (WBC)
Rid**** Bowe - refusing to fight Lennox Lewis (WBC)
Lennox Lewis - refusing to fight John Ruiz (WBA)
Lennox Lewis - refusing to fight Chris Byrd (IBF)
Graciano Rocchigiani - (WBC)
Jamie McDonnell - refusing to fight Yusi Malinga (IBF)
Andre Ward - stripped for being injured
Muhammad Ali - refusing induction into Army.
George Foreman - refusing to fight top contender (IBF)
Larry Holmes - refusing to fight No1 contender (WBC)

There are dozens more champions who lost their belts to corrupt alphabet organization's. ?

Ali was also stripped of the WBA title for giving Liston an immediate rematch, as strange as that sounds.

**joeandthebums** · 01-01-2015, 05:09 PM

Sure only scratched the surface with these;

Max Schmeling - Refusing Immediate Rematch J.Sharkey (NYSAC) - 1931
Benny Lynch - Overweight against J. Jurich (BBBofC) - 1938
John Henry Lewis - Failure to defend title (NBA) - 1939
Little Dado - Moved Weight Class (NBA) - 1943
Marty Servo - Failure to defend title (NYSAC) - 1946
Jackie Paterson - Failed to weigh in (BBBofC & NBA) - 1947
Ray Robinson - Titles in 2 Weight Classes (NYSAC) - 1951
Ray Robinson - Failure to defend title (NYSAC) - 1952
Ray Robinson - Failure to defend title (NBA) - 1959
Archie Moore - Failure to defend title (NYSAC & NBA) - 1962
Paul Pender - Failure to defend title (NYSAC) - 1962
Bob Foster - Failure to defend title (WBC) - 1974
Carlos Monzon - Failure to defend title (WBC) - 1974
Jose Napoles - Failure to defend title (WBA) - 1975
Wilfred Benitez - Failure to defend title (WBA) - 1976
John Conteh - Failure to defend title (WBC) - 1977
Sean O'Grady - Failure to defend title (WBA) - 1981
Bobby Chacon - Failure to defend title (WBC) - 1983
Lupe Pintor - Failure to defend title (WBC) - 1983
Marvin Hagler - 15 Round Contest (WBC) - 1984 (Immediately Reinstated)
Michael Spinks - Titles in 2 Weight Classes (WBC) - 1985
Marvin Hagler - Failure to defend title (WBA) - 1987
Mike Tyson - Failure wear title & pay fees (IBF) - 1988 (Immediately Reinstated)
Mike McCallum - Failure to defend title (WBA) - 1991
Naseem Hamed - Failure to relinquish WBO title (WBC) - 2000

**Sugar Adam Ali** · 01-01-2015, 08:38 PM

When tarver and johnson were gonna fight, both were champs and 1 n 2 in the division, yet both got stripped for fighting each other... Just beyond ******

**wladavit** · 01-02-2015, 04:03 AM

I always thought titles should won and lost in the ring.

Also I don't think the WBA stripped Lewis for refusing to fight Ruiz. Don King got the belt for Holyfield who lost it to Ruiz.

**joeandthebums** · 01-02-2015, 04:28 AM

Originally posted by wladavit

Also I don't think the WBA stripped Lewis for refusing to fight Ruiz. Don King got the belt for Holyfield who lost it to Ruiz.

Good spot. Lewis had issues with the WBA because he initially signed to fight Michael Grant, not Henry Akinwande the #1 contender.

Akinwande who was suffering from hepatitis, was replaced at #1 by Ruiz (both were Don King promoted fighters.)

The WBA threatened to strip Lewis, but decided against it as long as Lewis agreed to meet Ruiz after the Grant contest.

King however had different ideas and took Lewis to court as he had Lewis' signature on a contract which stated he would defend his title against the #1 WBA contender.

The court ruled in favour of King and that Lewis could not fight Grant unless he vacated his WBA title.

**just the facts** · 01-02-2015, 12:14 PM

some low lights- the dirtbags at the WBA for stripping Mike McCallum for fighting James Toney (the IBF champ and the MW fight everyone wanted to see). My favorite- the vile scumbags at the WBC stripping Bobby Chacon of their 130 lb title for fighting their #1 rated contender (Boza-Edwards) rather than the Don King controlled #2 contender (Camache)

**Humean** · 01-02-2015, 12:53 PM

Dariusz Michalczewski, was WBO champion then also became WBA and IBF champ after battering Virgil Hill. WBA stripped him because they didn't want him to hold both WBO and WBA belts and then the IBF stripped him for not fighting Guthrie, of whom a US Court had ordered must receive a fight with the Michalczewski/Hill winner within 90 days because the court had declared that the IBF had been breaching their own rules.

Daniel Geale defeats Felix Sturm to add the WBA Super belt to his IBF belt, the WBA immediately orders him to fight Golovkin and strips him when he wants to make a rematch with Mundine in Australia. Sturm had been WBA Super champ for 2 years with no demands made upon him.

**joeandthebums** · 01-02-2015, 12:58 PM

Originally posted by just the facts

My favorite- the vile scumbags at the WBC stripping Bobby Chacon of their 130 lb title for fighting their #1 rated contender (Boza-Edwards) rather than the Don King controlled #2 contender (Camache)

This doesn't seem to be so clear cut.

It seems to boils down to whether Chacon signed a contract with Don King that gave him a one fight option prior to his shot at the title against Limon.

If he did, King had stipulated the purse for that next contest at $210,000.

Chacon who made $450,000 against Boza-Edwards obviously wasn't going to accept that kind of money for Camacho.

Sulaiman gave Chacon roughly three week notice to reach an agreement for the fight or be stripped.

When he stripped the title Sulaiman claimed Chacon had been offered $450,000 and a percentage of the gate. (?)

Either way Chacon minus his title went on to face Mancini next and got a career high $575,000.

**Ben Bolt** · 01-03-2015, 09:15 PM

If we should list every fighter that has been stripped of their alphabet �world� title, this would be a never-ending thread.

The word corrupt in the headline sums it all up.

Name boxers who were stripped of their title belts by corrupt alphabet organizations