Fighters who have held all four belts at once?

[asgarth]

I dont understandd ibf sometimes. Credits for sticking to their rules, but a unification fight should always trump a mandatory

[Holystroke3]

Kovalev also has three of the four (WBA, WBO, and IBF) - he most recently defended them against Andre Ward. Stevenson is holding the WBC hostage.

Lmao it never ends
Sorry

[Cheek busting]

Thanks for the responses, chaps!

Yes, as Masterplan pointed out - the WBO is the newest one, and only came into the fold within the past few decades.

[PK3434]

This is so hard to do politically and logistically.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Is there any boxer now, or in pugilistic history, that has held all four titles at once?

Or maybe before the newest one (wasn't it sometime in the 80's), was there a fighter who held all three major titles?

I can't think of one recently who has; Wlad held all but the WBC (but his brother had it while he had his, so that's pretty close) A side note - Wlad also had the IBO, a title that is highly respected in Europe, and Australia, but not so much in USA.

Personally, I think the IBO is legit, because their rankings are generated by objective criteria (well, I guess the criteria is subjective, but it's objectively generated/ranked/ordered by a computer), rather than subjective human-choosing.

But for purposes of this, we'll keep it simpler, and just say there are four major organizations - WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO.

If I had to say which one of the major four is the biggest joke, and most worthless, I'd go with WBA. Lol they have like three different belt-holders sometimes (Interim, Regular, Super).


Kovalev also has three of the four (WBA, WBO, and IBF) - he most recently defended them against Andre Ward. Stevenson is holding the WBC hostage.

To my knowledge, Bernard Hopkins held all four in 2004 when he stopped DLH for the WBO Middleweight crown, adding to the IBF title he'd held for almost ten years, the WBC title he won off Keith Holmes and the WBA(there was only one WBA title back then) he won from Felix Trinidad. So until he faced Jermain Taylor the very next year, boxing had one undisputed middleweight champion- very short-lived of course.

The closest now is Golovkin and Kovalev. However, if they never get there, don't hold it against them. They not only have to win the titles by actually beating the belt holders. They also have to get those fights made which can be hell. I bet even when he beats Jacobs, Jacobs will still be the WBA regular champion, although they said they'd start doing away with such trinkets. The sport is a real mess with belts.

[SkillspayBills]

Cecilia Braekhus holds the WBO WBA WBC IBF and even added the IBO belt recently. She will put all 5 belts on the line on January 28th against Klara Svensson

She's a complete and utter badass and pretty damn hot.

[AneesMoha]

Does the WBO recognise people holding other world titles?

[soul_survivor]

Is there any boxer now, or in pugilistic history, that has held all four titles at once?

Or maybe before the newest one (wasn't it sometime in the 80's), was there a fighter who held all three major titles?

I can't think of one recently who has; Wlad held all but the WBC (but his brother had it while he had his, so that's pretty close) A side note - Wlad also had the IBO, a title that is highly respected in Europe, and Australia, but not so much in USA.

Personally, I think the IBO is legit, because their rankings are generated by objective criteria (well, I guess the criteria is subjective, but it's objectively generated/ranked/ordered by a computer), rather than subjective human-choosing.

But for purposes of this, we'll keep it simpler, and just say there are four major organizations - WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO.

If I had to say which one of the major four is the biggest joke, and most worthless, I'd go with WBA. Lol they have like three different belt-holders sometimes (Interim, Regular, Super).


Kovalev also has three of the four (WBA, WBO, and IBF) - he most recently defended them against Andre Ward. Stevenson is holding the WBC hostage.

LOL at the claim the IBO is highly respected in europe, no its not, stop telling yourself lies, thats next level pathetic

Hopkins at one stage held all the 160 belts, Naz almost had all of them at 126 if it wasnt for the ibf or wba politiking their way out of it. He would have been the first one too. Tyson held all of them before the wbo was relevant.

I cant think of anymroe off the top of my head considering the wbo didnt become relevant and important well into the 90s.

[rogdogx]

She's a complete and utter badass and pretty damn hot.

I agree completely bro

[original zero]

I dont understandd ibf sometimes. Credits for sticking to their rules, but a unification fight should always trump a mandatory

Unification DOES trump a mandatory. Not sure what you're referring to here.