Marchegiano's New Fan Guide

[Marchegiano]

Popular titles that don't matter:

Lineal - Not the title that goes back to Sullivan or pre-sanctioning body eras, not a sanctioning or promotional title either. Lineal is the most confused title in boxing. Lineal is, at this point, a nice long list of historical inaccuracies. Lineal is the title created in the 60s or 70s when the first time the sanctioning bodies split up recognition between multiple champions. Lineal is a simplifier, it's meant to be the title that goes back to pre-body era so that there can be one champion per division, but, has had plenty of body rules attached to it either by mistake, misunderstanding the past, or on purpose trying to make the title seem more attractive. Before bodies there was no ranking. Lineal is meant to be the pre-body title but to earn lineal in a vacant situation, as in there's no current lineal champion, folks will tell you the number one ranked fighter has to fight the number two. So, it's not historical but it is meant to be.

Ring - Gave birth to most the nonsense conflated with lineal. Today most people realize the Ring title isn't the lineal at least, getting them to recognize the lineal is not the traditional is another battle but the battle for Ring is over. It's just a promo title and these days basically everyone knows that.

WBC - Franchise -Created to be above the WBC title but lack WBC title's recognition. Silver- Meant to be below the WBC title, lacks recognition. Emeritus/Interim- Meant to be equal to the WBC title but lacks recognition.

WBA - Regular- Meant to be equal to the WBC,IBF, and WBO titles however it is the Super that shares the other bodies' recognition. Gold- Not even the WBA has written up official placement so it goes without saying none of the other 3 recognize that title. Emeritus and Interim- Meant to equal their Reg belt and in this case they do as the Reg is not recognized outside the WBA anymore than Emeritus or Interim is.

IBF - Interim- Unrecognized

WBO - Interim and Super are both unrecognized.

IBO - Unrecognized body/unrecognized title

[Marchegiano]

BIGPOPPAPUMP Pin this for newbies

I appreciate that bud, thanks for asking.

[Marchegiano]

BIGPOPPAPUMP

Hey bud, I do honestly believe some sort of guide for new fans would be beneficial for the forum and would get new fans making posts sooner with less lurking leading up to their first posts.

If this doesn't cut the mustard tell me what you need and I'll make it up to scratch for you. Or at least tell me you disagree with the idea of it and I'll let it just die like all my other info threads.

To be honest, in my opinion, there's nothing stickied in the History section that is more helpful than my list of champions or my chronological explanation of sanctioning bodies and laws. I honestly do not understand why nonsense like what fight you watched or who is in your ATG p4p top ten is stickable but a list from 686BC to the present including all major and semi major champions and the date they won their title is not.

I do, from time to time, try to help the forum with my information posts. I just got a PM today about my work on Police Gazette inspiring fans to look for more boxing. There's a fella writing a series of books inspired by my ancient-to-present champions thread. There's a whole research group who banded together because of my work now running a podcast. I absolutely know my info posts get people thinking AND they ain't even stickied so I can only imagine the impact they'd make if they weren't buried a day or two after I posted them.

Everything I do that isn't one of my info posts/threads is a waste of time. Denium and War Room can take the piss all they like, all those guys do and 99% of this forum does is waste time. Opinion posts, jokes, talking mad **** = waste of time. This isn't. This is helpful and really I shouldn't be the guy making this thread, the administration should. Not only do BS writers never write anything but opinion articles with all the value of Denium's opinion or any other random mainstay opinion poster's opinion but in better words, but, the admin here don't even notice the difference between me calling guys like War Room dumb candy asses and explaining what happened to Monte Masters.

What I mean to say is you've got a huge trolling community. That's pretty much all this forum is. Look at who responded positively. Y'all can probably still see the likes before I edited. If a nabbed a thumb from super respectable mother ****er Koba and got some **** talk out or War Room I must have done something that appeals to respectable mother ****ers and is a bit detested by trolls.

I troll, I get respectable posters asking me to stop. I don't troll and I get trolls asking me to stop. IMO and from where I sit the community is super malleable and what gets highlighted dictates the tone. All y'all want to do is write your opinion articles and see if I added curse words to the edit reason text field....cool...plenty of trolls for you to work with here. Plenty of people ready to share their opinion like as if it matters. If BS has any want to be anything but a troll community maybe some actual information should be housed here on the world's largest boxing forum.

Just sayin' you get what you prompt. If BS wants to bring in more headier discussions and have a community of actual experts among this rabble rather than just exclusively **** sniffers calling themselves experts, sons, I got the goods. For as much as these cats argue with my opinion ain't none of them correct what is not correctable; cold, hard, indisputable facts.

With that rant out of the way, tell me directly, what do I do to get info posts stickied? I'm not trying to attack Koba or what he does, I am super appreciative, but, if you ask me a pick the winner contest ain't worth a piss next to what exactly is a sanctioning body. Again, no offense Koba and I respect everything you do. It's a game though. It's a waste of time. Explanation is not. Explanation is always worth the time it takes to get the information shared to those who want to learn. I support the game so much I pay for it and don't even play, but, I def support information way more.

No offense to War Room or Denium, I do appreciate our troll community actually, but, I think we could have a strong info community too if info got half the highlight opinion does and since our writers write opinion articles exclusively the only way to come close to matching that is stickied posts. Y'all can't even tell me what fights are airing where without writing your opinions into it...might be why so many here don't do **** but share opinions and cry about opinions.