What sickens me about "title" fights...

[GranTorino]

is that when a promoter like Arum or King want a potentially big money fight to happen, they manipulate the standings with the help of crooked, corrupt, federation officials to make veritable nobodies actual contenders so that the washed up champ can get have a "title" fight with a bum who shouldn't even be in the same ring with him.

And Im not just talking about the DLH/Forbes fight. I imagine many of us can come up with many other such instances.

[Stickman]

What really sickens me is the whole game. Sanctioning fees, crooked promoters(thieves) like Don king, crooked judging, all of it. The entire system needs to be rebooted and re-written. After, of course Don King has been gutted and fed to hogs while still alive and concious.

[JakeNDaBox]

is that when a promoter like Arum or King want a potentially big money fight to happen, they manipulate the standings with the help of crooked, corrupt, federation officials to make veritable nobodies actual contenders so that the washed up champ can get have a "title" fight with a bum who shouldn't even be in the same ring with him.

And Im not just talking about the DLH/Forbes fight. I imagine many of us can come up with many other such instances.

DLH/Forbes isn't a title fight, for what it's worth.

It's not just Arum or King, they just get blamed the most because they've been running the game the longest. But look at how many titlists Main Events have turned out, and how many found out the hard way that they're ****ty pros AFTER winning a title.

The game's changed a bit. Top players are greater afforded the opportunity to cherry pick without fear of being stripped, thanks to interim,regular,super, jumbo-sized and kids meal titles. Therefore, guys on the way up have to decide whether they want to be a "world" champion, or if they want to beat the best.

So with that, getting to the best these days does require making a name for yourself on the way up, rather than sitting on a lead and piggybacking off of someone else's accolades. Floyd is taking it to the extreme, but has the right idea in that contenders should prove themselves before getting a crack at him. An example is Mark Suarez, who didn't quite deserve a title shot, and should've been forced to fight a Kermit Cintron before getting paid against Floyd, who vacated the title for which they fought.

It's up to fans to decipher between real champs and manufactured ones. The Ring's policy was a step in the right direction, but they shot themselves in the foot in attempting to rewrite history - including their own - in pushing what now comes across far more as an agenda than an actual policy.

Not sure if anyone notices, but I rarely if ever mention sanctioning bodies in my articles, unless absolutely necessary. But for the most part, unless it's an obvious choice of someone being a linear champion (Calzaghe @ SMW prior to Hopkins, Haye @ CW, Pavlik @ MW, Vazquez @ JFW, etc), I simply call them titlists, without reference to the actual alphabet hardware they possess.