Comments Thread For: 'Mandatory Madness' Continues With Beterbiev-Deines Mismatch Saturday In Moscow

[Gentblue]

Charles Martin is about to be IBF Mando again..... need I say more... Also the WBC will strip you for Cowardice I can respect that.

[Shadoww702]

Agreed, they got the worst mandatories of all, I'd love the 4 organisations to fuse to have just 1 belt and 1 champ for division, that's how it should be, sadly this won't happen, too much money for them to let go. I'm thinking Dana White was thinking into having his boxing ufc league with his belt, the problem is that top fighters nowadays get paid a lot of money, Dana is not gonna pay these guys the money they are getting with other promoters, and pulling out new talent from the beginning is a very hard investment.

Like Dana said, it's so broken and there's so many people involved that it's just not possible to compete against them.

This is my current favorite.

Ring Belt
WBC (WeBlowCanelo) is pretty pathetic though.
WBO
IBF
WBA

I like the IBF's 2nd day weigh-in. And they usually have good champs but the rest are dog sht. And how they always leave 1 and 2 spot empty.

And how the heck did Sergiy lose and then get another mando shot right after??? And Chales Martin AGAIN??? He was like one of the WORST champs in history

[xxlefthookxx]

There is no reason to fight guys like this. The belts are given by orgs so that the orgs make money. Give the fighters rankings, like in college football, and THAT produces the fights. No sanctioning orgs to pay. No mandatory mismatches. Use an insulated, relatively unbiased panel (Ring, TBR), and have the promoters figure out how to make fights between the top 10 rated talent in the world...not top 10 in an org, which could be top 100, 200 material.
This would turn the boxing world on it's head if 1. They did this, and 2. Networks and promoters did not show any fights between fighters not in the top 20.

[Ray*]

The WBC and WBA literally make up new belts to prevent their “More famous or brown paper bag boxers” having to fight the “Said competition” as Arum put it.

So that’s even worse, when Haney became the mandatory for Loma what did Arum do? So you can put the finger at the IBF but the WBC and WBA are worse.

Adonis didn’t fight any mandatory for years, Wilder avoided anyone that is a threat under the WBC, they literally lifted up the worse candidates, those who are inactive for him to fight as mandatory. Made a french fries belt, the WBA made a super dupper belt etc

So how is that different from the IBF crappy mandos?

[mawoodhouse]

All of these organizations are corrupt in one way or another, the IBF with the non worthy mandatories, the WBA with their ridiculous WBA Regular belt that unworthy contenders like Charr and Bryan hold, the WBC with their ridiculous belts such as Champion Emeritus and Franchise and Diamond belts, then the WBO elevating a former Cruiserweight champ as mandatory for a Heavyweight champion (Usyk).....yeah they all have ****** rules and corruption.

[Monty Fisto]

All of these organizations are corrupt in one way or another, the IBF with the non worthy mandatories, the WBA with their ridiculous WBA Regular belt that unworthy contenders like Charr and Bryan hold, the WBC with their ridiculous belts such as Champion Emeritus and Franchise and Diamond belts, then the WBO elevating a former Cruiserweight champ as mandatory for a Heavyweight champion (Usyk).....yeah they all have ****** rules and corruption.

Yep, agree with all this. It's a shltshow all right.

[Monty Fisto]

Yeah and in 16 days he turns 40!!! And he looks 50...

In the future he will enter his forties. Correct. For the present, in which I operate, he is in his thirties.

And still closer to his twenties than his fifty.

These are the facts.

[slimPickings]

Impossible to point a finger at one org. They are all pretty much crooked. Watch the fights that you find compelling and ignore the rest. At the end of the day i just hope each fighter gets to make decent money for putting their lives on the line every time they step in the ring. I dont really care about Arum's opinion except he is just as self serving as the rest of them.

[greeneye99]

My bad dude 39. Practically 40!!! Which is SUPER old for a boxer. Falsehoods??? U made it sound like he was young 30's not practically 40....

Dude is 39 yrs old....Not even close to 50 yrs please sit down & be quiet Lololololol

[elfag]

This has always happened since there were 3 and 4 major belts and now each abc org has multiple versions of their belt.

Each org basically refuses to make other champions mandatory or "reuse" other top rated guys in rival abc belt rankings. So the champs get a steady supply of bums because there are now 40 not 10, top ranked fighters. its a joke system.