Comments Thread For: Association of Boxing Commissions Addresses Numerous Concerns With WBA

[Rodtang]

And there you have it folks. The real reason there's talk of reducing titles. All that talk of public demand and trying to sound like they care about the fans? Utter BS. Just hope Mauricio got the same letter lol.

[factsarenice]

They also have the most mismatches of ALL. U need me to name a few??? Here's one just announced.

International Boxing Federation has ordered current unified junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo to defend his belt against Bakhram Murtazaliev.

The IBF is widely considered the best of the corrupt sanctioning bodies....that should tell you just how bad things have gotten.

[Ray*]

Yes, one champion per weight, no exceptions.

With one mandatory per 12 months.

No rematch clauses for championship fights.

Agreed 100%

[EternallyIll]

Bin all your fucking BS titles, no more regular, gold, interim, French fries, emeritus, in recess BS. One title per division.

One title per division per sanctioning body. I like having undisputed champions with 4 belts. no more than 4. It also means more to beat another champion than it does to beat a mandatory challenger.

[Toffee]

Yes, one champion per weight, no exceptions.

With one mandatory per 12 months.

No rematch clauses for championship fights.

Are you talking about making them absolutely not allowed in championship fights.

That will reduce the standard of voluntaries. And will reduce unifications.

If you mean just for mandatories then fair enough. Though you'll be giving a lot of power to the orgs. And they haven't really earned that.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Welp...that's what you get by not supporting the IBO, the only org that's straight and narrow.

[harry-greb]

One pope, one president, one lineal and true champion

[Franchise1218]

I agree with the letter this is a problem that has gotten severely out of hand. It is bad enough that with all the sanctioning bodies most of the time you can’t tell a casual fan who is the champion. Now you can’t even tell them who is the champion of 1 sanctioning body, because of the WBA you have guys like Tank Davis claiming titles in multiple divisions despite him winning several WBA titles that were either secondary titles or in fights out of the weight class of that title. The abundance of titles diminishes the prestige of being a champion as you can seemingly become champion by accident these days.

[b Murphington]

The sport needs a commission, an organization or league with hard rules. John McCain, and the former speaker of the house Harry Reid both showed interest in organizing a commission before dropping out and never mentioning the subject again.

I said before Teddy Atlas should get something together. He’s the most passionate out of anyone. He has true passion for boxing. I think he would do a fantastic job running a boxing organization that actually cares about the sport.

[famicommander]

I said before Teddy Atlas should get something together. He’s the most passionate out of anyone. He has true passion for boxing. I think he would do a fantastic job running a boxing organization that actually cares about the sport.

Teddy's a drooling idiot, though. He cares about boxing but he doesn't know his elbow from his ass.

And in any case, Teddy endorses the Transnational Boxing Rankings Boards.