FOX Sports: "Ruiz vs Wilder will be for PBC Heavyweight title"

[juggernaut666]

This is great news now others belts will soon be free meaning people can now fight for the IBF, WBO, WBA, WBC belts

Ruiz wins watch him drop the IBF and WBO belts , 147 belts can become free too

What ?

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I've never been a big PBC fan, but if they had started out with their own belts, I would have. You have to have everybody under the same promotion or nothing will change. I love this idea and hope they pursue it. This can be the end of so many recognized belts. We'll see what happens...

[Jsmooth9876]

PBC title wont mean **** outside of
HW
SMW unless Canelo stays at 168 then nobody at PBC will ever be considered the best at 168
154- The only divison they have every good fighter
WW wont mean anything as long as Spence and Crawford don't fight.
140-135-130-126-122 -118 all dominated by other promoters

So yeah, good luck with that PBC belt...

[tjones1989]

Pbc is the only legit title now, get rid of the other fake ass titles.

[Heru]

If it isn't this fight, it would be Spence vs. Pacquiao for the inaugural PBC Welterweight Title (if this is true).

A PBC Title wil be seen as a declaration of war. WBC/WBA/WBO/IBF will eventually band together to stop the bleeding (if they can cooperate with each other), but it will be tough on both sides. Forming a title of this magnitude is necessary to give the sport a semblance of order. The fragmentation of boxing will continue as long as the format continues.

PBC will be like the UFC and slowly but surely shutdown its competitors. It should've done this as soon as the Top Rank and GBP lawsuits were dismissed or even when the Fox deal was made.

Either way, it's a power move that will shape the boxing landscape for years to come.

[DARTH SILKWORMS]

Because they pay and no one else does so they have all the talent in MMA.

PBC already has 90+% of the top American talent. DAZN is destined to fail. That just leaves Top Rank, who doesn't have any Americans anybody cares about other than Crawford and they can't manage to get Crawford any big fights. I'm not saying Top Rank will go out of business, but they may end up the boxing equivalent of Bellator.

No promoter in boxing has all the talent. Also, MMA doesn’t have sanctioning bodies.

Sanctioning bodies have been attempted in MMA, but the UFC was able to thwart them. We'll see if PBC can successfully thwart the sanctioning bodies, if that is indeed the plan.

So we’re going to end up with the WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO, PBC, Top Rank, Golden Boy, Matchroom championships. Can’t wait! Awesome.

If PBC ends up having 95% of the top fighters and is the only boxing entity garnering millions of viewers in the US, then the US public won't care about any of the other championships you mentioned. Only the PBC.

[famicommander]

If there's one thing boxing needs, it's more ****** pointless title belts.

[DARTH SILKWORMS]

When was the last time a UFC champion unified with any other promotions title?

When was the last time the general public cared about a non-UFC MMA champion? If PBC makes their own championship eventually, they'll ignore the others and if they have the best TV exposure, people will stop caring about the others.

there is no such thing as an undisputed in MMA, nor will there ever be, because every promotion has a champion.

And nobody cares. UFC is recognized as the big leagues. Does anybody skip watching the Super Bowl because there's no undisputed champion due to the winner not playing the winner of the Arena Bowl?

If Fox Sports can convince casual sports fans that PBC is the only major league of boxing, then other titles won't matter.

[YOU WILL LOSE]

and up until that point, pay per pbc will be fixing the fights so theri preferred guys gets the inagural belt. it actually explains the excessive amount of "draws" on their cards,, so ****ing obvious whats been going on

[Marchegiano]

Well said but that’s exactly what will happen with boxing
I’m just very surprised that this has not happened with every platform out there
To be honest , I really thought that Hearn in combination with Dazn would of been the first ones to attempt this
But wouldn’t be shocked to see the Bobfather/Warrren/Espn attempting the same chit
It comes down to basic business , cutting out the middleman
Although not sure how much the fans and the casual fan will buy into this
Realizing that some fighters will never face each other and also how much weight those champions will carry , cause in hindsight they have not beaten the world so to say

The only thing is once everyone casts their lines only one of them can catch the biggest fish, ya get me?

Keeping with MMA, the UFC is seen as the title where everyone else is a lesser champion. The closest we have to that is stuff like the WBA-R title.

If the PBC, DAZN, and ESPN(...showtime?) all have their own title and never cross promote then surely one would pull ahead of the others as the clear primer league just like MMA, no?

I think I'd be hesitant to do that if I was one of them. As long as they don't compete like that then they're all equals and the quality of champion is the quality of the man not his league.

I dunno, I think it's real interesting, but, also, just on principle very adverse to new belts if they are not a consolidation of belts.

For example, I'd love for the bodies to get together and make an official, set, path for undisputed. Just like mandos, but for unification until there is an undisputed. If that came in the form of a new belt, simply the undisputed belt, I'd love to see that.