Crowning And Recognizing A Lineal Champion – Part II

[crold1]

Well if people * rated him at Welter, I think the pressure would grow for one of the top Welters to fight him, and the fight would eventually be made. By not rating him, it plays into the hands of the Welters who don't want to have to fight him and who now have an excuse. If he'd hung onto that WBO belt he'd have had to fight mandatories against real nobodies (the WBO ratings being a joke), so I don't think it's fair to conclude much from that.

* By "people" in my first sentence above, I mean most of all The Ring, as their ratings are the most influential, but your ratings are also fairly influential, plus you (via Cliff) do have input into The Ring's ratings, so I think this applies to you too.

I think in this age, you keep the belt in the division you want to fight in. I also think saying he WOULD fight at Welter is nice slight of hand but his body doesn't belong there and he's in an effective class. I chimed in to Ring that he should be removed the week before the Phillips fight because it was obvious he wasn't staying at Welter.

[David_TheMan]

That is bull to say Paul doesn't belong at WW, if he can make WW he belongs there. Stop trying to give WW a way out of looking at Paul as a legit WW titlist.