forget the 147 ring belt........

[$ LegenD $]

july 26 we will find out who the best welterweight in the world is......GBP should strip floyd the belt for not fighting ANY top welterweight and reward the winner of the mega fight between cotto-margarito with it......as for the fight cotto seems to now posses the ring generalship to keep marg at bay but damn the tornado can take a hell of a punch and keep coming......i can not wait......will cotto fold under the pressure of the gian margarito or will cotto manage to systematically break him down as he's known to do and claim supremecy in the welterweight division?....either way this fight might be the last time we see these two warriors in their prime because this has WAR written all over it.......

[DiegoFuego]

Yeah I'm sure Golden Boy would give the title to a TOP RANK fighter. Yeah that makes so much sense. Where do you people come up with this ****?

[warp1432]

Except the whole ring policy (even before Oscar) is you can't get stripped of the belt.

Even then it wouldn't be for a vacant title because Mosley and Quintana are aheead of Margarito in the ratings and a win over Cintron won't change that.

Why don't people get this?

[-Antonio-]

He will be stripped of the WBC belt though.

[Thread Stealer]

Yeah I'm sure Golden Boy would give the title to a TOP RANK fighter. Yeah that makes so much sense. Where do you people come up with this ****?

Yeah I'm sure Golden Boy would strip Mayweather of the 147 title because he's fighting the Golden Boy and helping with the financial windfall they will receive.

[$ LegenD $]

ok but cotto already beat both of those fighters u mentioned.....and floyd has not beaten ANY top welter in the mix.......u beat judah by decision and get the ring belt.....fawk that........

[Thread Stealer]

ok but cotto already beat both of those fighters u mentioned.....and floyd has not beaten ANY top welter in the mix.......u beat judah by decision and get the ring belt.....fawk that........

Jesus Christ.

I expect boxing fans to have short memories, but this was less than two years ago. Judah was the Ring champ, he lost to Baldomir, then Baldo lost to Mayweather.

The Ring made its rules and policy clear back when it was re-done in 2001/2002, but their rules on stripping have been consistent. They're not gonna strip a fighter because a contender is doing better work at the division.

Did you see The Ring stripping Michael Spinks before he lost to Mike Tyson, who had done WAY better work than Spinks in the previous 2 years? Did they strip Joel Casamayor, for Juan Diaz? Did they strip Floyd Patterson when Sonny Liston was doing better work before he beat Patterson in the ring?

[THe TRiNiTY]

This....... is ******. Thread closed.

[Guest]

Yeah, Casamayor sat in the ring rankings for a long time without even fighting.

They surely aren't timely rankings or even that dynamic no matter what seems to happen.

[AntonTheMeh]

it weighs just as much as the others to me now that a active fighter owns the ****.