Do title belts matter in boxing?

[Larry the boss]

post, vote and discuss

[Divine Hammer]

respect matters most and quillin has none of it. stop posting your joke questions and go back to worshiping your #1 hero phony princess whining coward floyd.

you weirdo freak.

[gamefrk]

They would have mattered if the judges wouldn't have been corrupt. Example: Hererra deserves to be champ @140lbs.

[bojangles1987]

They matter to the fighters who need them as leverage to get fights. Golovkin needs his belts, otherwise no one has any reason to fight him. Rigondeaux, too.

If you bring money, the alphabet belts don't matter as much because everyone will want to fight you.

[jas]

for certain fighters yea, certain fighters no

guys like mayweather, pacquaio - no

guys like quillin have been saying "i am the middleweight champion for america" because he had a belt

now haymon is going to make a jacobs vs quillin fight for jacobs' paper belt that is not even the real title - ggg has the real version and they will market it as if it is for a proper "world title"

[Larry the boss]

respect matters most and quillin has none of it. stop posting your joke questions and go back to worshiping your #1 hero phony princess whining coward floyd.

you weirdo freak.

Quillin???lmfao wtf...when have i even been a damn Quillin fan...try again

[techliam]

World title belts?

If so, they only matter in a couple of ways. Firstly, it's every boxers first aspiration to become World Champion. From there it depends how good they are...they can be long-time titleholders or become good enough to outgrow the need for them (like Floyd, Pacquiao, Cotto etc)

Secondly, they help to sell fights to the public. Putting 'World Welterweight Championship' all over a fight advert helps a lot. I do like the idea of multiple championships, but i'd never support any more than 2 belts. Unification fights can be quite exciting, if they happen.

Being the best in the division is the more important thing, but the need for that has become diminished now that you can hold onto a world title, make money and not fight the other champions of a division.

[Divine Hammer]

Quillin???lmfao wtf...when have i even been a damn Quillin fan...try again

look into your heart and your soul and it's there you'll find the answers that you've been denying to yourself.

[Foreign Soil]

Yeah they matter, especially when someone vacates a belt in a duck.

[Hougigo]

Is this in response to Quillin? I hope not, because it's a damn joke