LMFAO! The WBC does whatever it wants and no one cares

[ShoulderRoll]

Canelo and Smith aren’t even ranked at 168 according to the WBC.

Title fight!

You'd rather see Yildirim fighting for that belt?

[_Rexy_]

Until I see him make weight I’m not counting him.

So we're just gonna move those goalposts then...gotcha

[-Kev-]

I have no complaints over a governing body putting a vacant major title on the line for the champion of a weight class vs another top 5 fighter of that weight class. WBC and all other sanctioning bodies are more of a business than anything else. Except maybe IBF, which is still technically a business, but they at least follow their own rules and don’t edit them depending on the popularity of a fight or the money involved.

So yes WBC is opportunistic and very obviously corrupt, but in this case they are being corrupt for the best fighter of 168 (Smith) vs a top 5 fighter of 168 (Canelo).

I’m not going to pretend to care about sanctioning bodies own rankings. I’ve always hated them and they suck. For example WBC has Benavidez at #1, Yildrim at #2, David Lemieux as #3 ranked and Jacobs #5.

Yildrim isn’t even a top 10 LHW. Jacobs is barely top 10. Lemieux has done nothing, anywhere, in a long time and is somehow #9 in The Ring.

Sanctioning body rankings are the main reason why we get champions vs nobodies. And have paper champions. And two unknowns fighting for major titles.

So I won’t sit here and protect sanctioning bodies rankings when I think they bs to begin with.

[Outwest Exp 355]

So we're just gonna move those goalposts then...gotcha

He had the belt before why isn’t he the champ now?