Probably unifying a division. These days you can cherry pick a title in any division. But if you unify, you'd have had to have faced the best.
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Which one is more difficult to accomplish to be a multiple or unified division champ?
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Originally posted by jrosales13 View PostReally equally is both. True dominance and cleaning out a division is just as good winning lineal(emphasis on lineal) titles in multiple divisions.
Sometimes though, you have to go case by case. But, for different guys it would be just a matter of preference.
I hold both equally as impressive.
On the other hand some guys can be really comfortable at a weight and find it easy. You can't but have respect for those fighters who take the risk of stepping up a weight to fight bigger guys (or even go down a weight, draining themselves to take on the best at a lighter weight) There is even more kudos for a fella who can do it successfully. The discipline and adaptation they show is what captures the imagination for me.
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Originally posted by SCtrojansbaby View PostUnifying is much much harder. Manny has proven that you can beat guys off losses at catchweights and become muti-division champ. To unify you actually have to beat good ranked fighters.
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both are equally hard to accomplish
unifying - because of politics. A belt holder can simply defend againts his mandatories and he and his promoter earns money. If he is to lose the belt that could possibly mean lower purse. so the promoter wont match him againts someone he thinks might beat his fighter( Donairre/Montiel)
Multi division - Donairre has equal chance of beating Abner Mares and Juan Manuel Lopez? No way!. Size does matter in boxing in case you all guys forget.
Without the politics Multiple division is a lot harder. because that means ou have to beat bigger fighters.
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In fact there are plenty of example who doing really well in their best weignt division then moved up only to be sent back by a lesser skills boxer but obviously bigger than him.Last edited by straightleft; 04-06-2011, 04:37 AM.
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being a unified champion means you fought guys your own size (weight class), but being a multi-division champ means you fought guys bigger than you...
i thought this is just common sense and there is no need to make a topic out of it... oh well...
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Originally posted by ronnie_N. View Postbeing a unified champion means you fought guys your own size (weight class), but being a multi-division champ means you fought guys bigger than you...
i thought this is just common sense and there is no need to make a topic out of it... oh well...
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Unifying an entire division seems almost impossible now, especially with the introduction of all these diamond, silver and super belts. Even in 2007, when Calzaghe held the WBO and IBF 168 titles and Kessler held the WBC and WBA, the IBF for some reason stripped Calzaghe despite him and Kessler being the best two in the division. Sergio Martinez is another more recent example of how sanctioning bodies will do anything to prevent unification.
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to unify a division gets more props from me....you can go up in weight and win titles from belt holders all day....MOST of the titles won today are vacant ones anyway....the BEST comp can be found within the divisions imo
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