Joshua-Martin is a farce, where is the outrage?

[bballchump11]

Either way it is still a good fight. All of the titlist seem willing to fight each other too. SO I think things will get settled soon.

[KillaCamNZ]

Yeah. It's Fury's belt, everybody knows that.

No, it's not.

He won it, then had it stripped because he conflicted himself with a rematch clause.

In a world where boxing orgs bend like a dirty gymnast to please who they want to please, it's refreshing that one of them actually stuck to the letter of the agreement. If a fighter has conflicting clauses and agreements in place, then that fighter isn't going to get everything his way.

People can't seem to get their head around legalities. Respect Fury as the champion of whatever belts he holds, whatever status or ranking you want to put him as. But not as a titleholder of an org that he doesn't hold the title of.

[FlatLine]

The IBF belt is meaningless anyway, as are most titles these days. But the IBF are probably the most corrupt organization. The founder of the IBF was charged with bribery and corruption 15 years ago which tells you what they're all about. We saw the heavy corruption in the Khan vs Peterson fight on various levels which was probably the most corrupt boxing match ever to be recorded on camera but years earlier officials and judges were taking bribes just as they likely did in the Khan vs Peterson fight.

Fury is better off without that belt. Any IBF champion should feel ashamed to represent the organization and they should vacate the title immediately without even a second thought. A fake gucci leather belt has more inherent value than the IBF belt.

[Gentblue]

People were kicking off big time about Frampton and Quigg fighting for Rigo's belt, so why are people not outraged about these two fighting for a belt that rightfully belongs to Tyson Fury?

At least Frampton & Quigg were the #2 and #3 in their division, these two bums are barely top 10.

Whoever wins on Saturday should hand the belt back to the rightful lineal champ.

People care and see it as a paper champ fight but the difference is both Martin and Joshua want too fight Fury so in essence fury gets his belt back.
Quigg and Frampton do not want too fight Rigo and are happy being second best.

[kevin-novice]

i don't watch boxing for the belts. i couldn't tell you what belt goes where. sometimes it's good to force someone to be challenged but that's about it. Football and cups is a bit different because it goes in a club's history with a year against it.

[Ray*]

Most knows this is a joke, the organisation is to be blamed. The other boxers are just exploiting it.

[HanzGruber]

everybody knows what the ibf did was bs.. quigg was handed rigos belt for doing nothing lol.. not like it was charles that forced tyson to drop it.. thats on duva

[stefl14]

Real boxing fans know that belts mean nothing. Absolutely nothing. The problem is that the media doesn't and if Joshua wins in the UK we're gonna hear so much hype about the guy. He should get some praise of course if he wins because his opponent isn't a bum, but he'll get a lot more than warranted. He needs to learn. If he fought a Haye or Fury now he gets beat.

[RussB23]

Fury dropped the belt, it no longer belongs to him. If he wanted to keep it he would have fought his mandatory. Not martins or joshuas fault.

[BWC]

No clue. Yeah the title is a sham. I dont think it has anything to do with that though. Moreso it seems they could probably make Joshua vs Salka and the UK people would be jumping for joy for some reason.

It's AJ and some bum off the street, it's selling 500K PPV in the UK. The guy just seems to be wild crazy popular over there