Would boxing be better off if the WBC went bankrupt?

[lparm]

They once screwed a fighter out of his legitimate title belt just so RJJ could continue to call himself their champion. Would boxing have been better without the green belt still claiming champions?

[sicko]

How can they go bankrupt when fighters are paying them to hold their Titles lol

[Robbie Barrett]

I'd be happy if they all did. Boxing should be about who you fight not which bullshit title a fighter is given.

[MasterPlan]

Most boxers want that "green" belt.

[original zero]

I made a thread about the WBC bankruptcy last week. Sulaiman was on the verge of launching the Universal Boxing Council to replace the WBC and most of the top fighters holding WBC belts had agreed to accept the UBC belt instead.

It's hard to say how successful the UBC would have been without knowing who would have ended up with the WBC assets. We'll never really know who it was that was trying to bankrupt the WBC, but many believe a third party was using Rocchigiani as a pawn so they could end up with the assets.

My posting history makes it clear that I prefer the WBC to the other sanctioning bodies. The reasons are simple. All of the other organizations have been proven to have taken bribes while the WBC refused to accept bribes. The WBC always made sure that the biggest stars carried their titles. It's also one of the original organizations along with the WBA and unlike the WBA, the WBC never created super champions and never took bribes.

I personally never recognized the WBO and don't think the IBF should have been recognized either. So that leaves the WBC has the lesser of the evils.

I also value the heavyweight championship of the world more than anything and the WBC heavyweight champions are undefeated when facing the champions of another organization. So I think the WBC has always been the #1 championship in boxing.

[BoxingPugilist]

At this point, between the 4 alphabet titles, The Ring, and TBRB trying to convince everyone there is a legitimate means of tracing back a "lineal" championship - I'd be happy to see any of them start to fade off. Personally, I've never given much credibility to WBO or IBF...WBC and WBA carry more weight in my eyes due simply to longevity, even if I am endlessly annoyed with WBA's Super Duper Mega Happy Hour Championships...but any of them could disappear tomorrow and I think the boxing scene would be stronger for it. Like countless people before me, it's obvious that an over saturated use of the term "World Champion" has devalued it to borderline laughable status.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I'd love to see them go out of business. Get rid of two more of the alpha-belts and you'd have a lot more interesting matches.

[original zero]

Exactly. WBC & WBA are the real belts with lineage tracing back as far as 1910 based on the organizations they were birthed from.

And once the WBA started the super title nonsense, the WBC became the only legit belt IMO.

As for Ring Magazine, their title is a fkn joke. They're owned by a promoter now! Ring is nothing more than a propaganda tool. Like Fox News. It's not a lineal title either. They make the rules up as they go along, stripping Adonis Stevenson, which shows they don't even pretend to be a lineal title anymore.

But you have to give props to the IBF for being the only org that follows their rules no matter what and doesn't allow anybody to become mandatory through attrition. IBF is definitely #2 in my eyes until the WBA has eliminated every super title.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I'd be happy if they all did. Boxing should be about who you fight not which bullshit title a fighter is given.

To be the man, you have to beat the man- not the title. Totally agree.