WBC is the true title!

[hectari]

How is this Ring magazine belt earned?

[Super Cruiserweight]

I dont think each and every Ring Magazine champion gets a Ring Magazine belt or do they ?

[jack_the_rippuh]

Why don't they all just join forces and become the wbabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

[moochi]

true title is none.......thank god we have amateur boxing to know who the best amateur is in the world.....world championships and olympics......

whether we like it or not, boxing is so corrupt and unfair that we rarely know who the real champ is................

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

I wish this conversation wasn't possible!

And there was just one belt...

[Double]

The WBC is not the true title any more than any other alphabet title.

Do you really think that Tomascz Adamek is the true light heavyweight champion over Tarver and Johnson?

How about Gatti over Tszyu?

Markus Beyer over Jeff Lacy or Joe Calzaghe?

Javier Castillejo over Kassim Ouma?

Katsunari Takayama over Ivan Calderon?

All 4 alphabet organizations have their own motivations and their own politics. If you think more WBC champions are credible at this moment than some of the others, it is just a coincidence.

Great points, I've got to go with Ring title as well.

[hectari]

I disagree with the Ring title too. The Ring can get it wrong too. Though, I'll say they are BY FAR more credible than the sanctioning bodies.

Yes, none of the titles are really better than each other, but yeah, in my mind, the WBC feels like the best of the four. The first guy had the order which feels right. WBA lost credibility with that ****** Super Champion junk. It is just a racket, all the sanctioning bodies. Anyone charging fees for championships can't be right. What other sport do athletes have to pay to be recognized as champion?

Know what happens if Zab Judah doesn't pay his sanctioning fees? They take his titles away. That's bull****. And what happens if Judah fights DLH and its a close fight? The governing bodies take equal percentage of each fighter's purse, so they'll give the match to the bigger named fighter regardless. This is crooked and wrong. The bigger named fighter means bigger paydays. Say the sanctioning bodies get 5 percent of each fighter's purse. 5 percent of DLH's purses will always be more money than 5 percent of most other peoples' purses. It is truly amazing that Shane Mosley won either fight against DLH.

So what is my problem with The Ring? Mainly its still too unofficial. Its biased reporters, editors deciding. Yeah, they're going more on merit, so its not like they'll get it way wrong or anything. But people say that neo-cliche of "I only accept the Ring belt" but I don't believe anybody REALLY considers the Ring belt the real belt, not deep down. It takes the boxers accepting the Ring belt more, casting down the other belts. That's hard to do. Those belts have a lot of history.

One day I do believe something or someone will come along and really fix boxing. One thing that has to be done is to get rid of so many false titles. They add confusion, water down the champions. I know those titles have a lot of history, but I won't miss the belts. Do I really want hugger JR holding the same title that someone like Muhammad Ali held? It is like others said, it isn't the belts that make the fighters...definitely not.

^I agree I am sick of that sanctioning fees. But I do agree with them having to fight mandatories or else they lose the belt because alot of fighters have mandatories they dont wanna fight like tarver, wright and marquez were so those champs in the division dodged them and lost the belt that way instead of losing the belt through the real way by fighting, I think that is coward junk when fighters don't fight the fighters that they are supposed to fight.