Broner deserves recognition as youngest four division world champion ever.

[SlySlickSmooth]

I'll congratulate him, sure.

But none of those guys at 140 have the right to call themselves THE Champion of the Division.

His Lightweight belt was legit. DeMarco was #1 there.

[Dip_Slide]

It's a cool achievement, u gotta realize Broner never lost at 140 and was a champion at 147, that's why the WBA had him ranked high at 140, we see a lot of fighters move up and fight for the title in their first fight at the new weight, plus Allakhbardiev or whatever his name was was ranked number 5-6 by the WBA if I'm not mistaken. So it's not a paper title per se buthe still has a lot to prove at 140.

[Showtime..]

Showtime -

Pacquiao was 30 when he won a recognized world championship in a fourth division.


J. One -

What does fans recognizing an impressive achievement have to do with him staying low key? I don't see what your post has to do with the subject at the thread at all.


Pain -

His loss was at a higher weight class. He is undefeated at his current weight. He jumped two weight classes and won the WBA welterweight title with no fights in between. Of course the WBA is going to rate him highly at 140 if he can make the weight. Why wouldn't a recent champion at a higher weight class be a top contender at the lower weight class he should have been in all along?


Rip -

Doesn't matter who he fought. If winning a recognized title in four divisions by 26 was easy to do, somebody would have done it before. If winning a recognized title in four divisions during the course of your entire career was easy to do, there wouldn't be only around a dozen fighters to ever do it.

Pacquiao won titles in 5 divisions in 2 years holy sh^t!

[RetroSpeed05]

Titles don't mean **** who you fight means more end of story.

[alexguiness]

AB deserves recognition for being gifted 4 titles.

Every time he steps up he gets an ass whooping.

He must have some pics of Haymon with a mouth full of ****** **** or something...

[jas]

no he does not

who did he beat to win those titles?

gtfo

[Bigg Rigg]

AB ready to go to the hall of fame

[-PBP-]

AB deserves recognition for being gifted 4 titles.

Every time he steps up he gets an ass whooping.

He must have some pics of Haymon with a mouth full of ****** **** or something...

He wasn't gifted the 135 title. DeMarco was #1 and Burns ducked him.

[Chrismart]

In a era of 4 belts or more per division, it's about who you fight.
Rodriguez, DeMarco, Paulie and Khabib aren't huge wins. 2 of those wins were for vacant titles also, something NBS seems to frown upon.

It's something he's got on his CV that you can't take away from him. But on closer inspection it's not as impressive as it first seems.

[Zaroku]

When De La Hoya won the WBO title in 1994, it was not recognized by the public or any of the other organizations as a major title. So by the time De La Hoya had won a recognized title in four divisions, he was 28.

Broner at 26 has won legit recognized world championships in four divisions. No interim titles, no "regular" titles in a division with a super champion, etc.

Broner may have his fair share of detractors, but I don't think this accomplishment should be overlooked. There's only been around a dozen four division champions in boxing history if you ignore interim titles, secondary titles, WBO titles held in the 90s, etc.

So give the guy his deserved props. Being the youngest four division world champion in history is nothing to sneeze at, not to mention even being a four division champion at all. Very few men in the history of the sport have reached the pinnacle of four different divisions.

Too many sanctioning bodies, and double the weight divisions.
Meaningless stat.