Is Unification important? should boxers get praised for unifying?

[iamboxing]

Absolutely. We need it now more than ever. In the past, the best fought the best. Now everyone is content to just sit on their belt and milk it for all its worth (saunders)

[Lester Tutor]

well "you musta forgot", because there were alot of years where Roy got hammered over his choices like Telesco, Kelly, Reggie Johnson, Grant, DelValle, etc etc., to the point where he even wrote a song about it.......lol

Roy stayed at 160. Never unified northbound, and he trolled 154-168 was easy. Y'all musta forgot!

[boliodogs]

It is important and boxers should be praised for trying to unify titles. The different organizations make unifying very hard and sometimes impossible. I think at one time the WBC had a rule that to be their champion you could not hold a title of any other alphabet organization.

[-Kev-]

You can have all the titles in your weight class and still not be the best. Titles are meaningless, they have been for a long time. There was a resurgence in the meaning of titles when GGG/Loeffler started saying their goal is to unify the MW division.

When Wlad held the majority of HW titles, no one cared, people just wanted to see better challengers. The Ring/WBC/WBO/WBA 147 titles being on the line for Mayweather-Pacquiao was not what made the fight attractive at all, it was them being the #1 and #3 P4P and Champ vs #1 at WW.

Zab Judah held The Ring, WBC, WBA, and IBF titles (all except WBO) at 147 in 2005 yet, Margarito and Mosley were better fighters than him. And even a 140lb Floyd in 2005 would've been favored against Judah. And Baldomir upset him.

Titles don't make you the best of the weight class. Once you become a title holder in a weight class by beating some one good for it, that's it, that's all that matters. Collecting all titles is meaningless. If Canelo vs GGG happens for all the titles, the primary celebration of the verdict is going to be that the best of 154-160 have fought each other, not that one guy has all the titles, it's the name you get on your res. Whether the winner is Canelo or GGG, it will be nothing new for either fighter, both have held belts there. It will be a little nice historical feat but nothing that tells us that they are actually the best.

[juggernaut666]

Not really ,belts dont make the fighter the resume does ! You would also be helping the corrupt organizations by subscribing to this way of thinking bc they dont want one champion so might as well LET them know their belt means less by mass appeal ,beleive me they know who has the better established Champion ......case in point Deontay Wilder who anyone with a pulse knows he has the most watered down career by far !

[Real King Kong]

At least if a fighter unifies all the belts, he'll pretty well have had to face all the best guys in the division in theory. One fighter owning all the belts is the next best thing to having just 1 title...assuming he faces top contenders.

[jmrf4435]

How would it not be It usually implies the fighter has to go after additional belts, which would mean he has to fight more belt holders.

It doesn't always mean better competition but what other motives can a boxer have? I have one belt, I want them all, is a fine goal.

[The D3vil]

Well yeah, if you hold every belt in your division, that means that either beat the best guy in the division or they're gonna have to beat you to get those belts off of you.

Especially, in the glamor division like HW, WW, MW, LW.

I like the idea of a guy ruling a division and there being a legitimate champion for years, rather than this division hopping that we get now, where everybody starts off at 135 ends up at 160.