Why didn't Vitali - Sanders establish new lineage?

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Yes, I personally think we should return to the original 8 divisions.

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Edgelord thread.

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Use the '@' symbol then type the username ...

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Yawn. Is the implication that Miller has pulled out of the Wardley fight to face Fury instead?

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Vitali and Sanders fought after Lennox Lewis' official retirement. Vitali was coming off a well contested loss to the outgoing champion and Sanders after chinning Vitali's brother in two. Seems recognising this as for the vacant world championship would have been reasonable, so why wasn't it?

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At least tag kafkod to give him the right of reply ...

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I personally don't think the BBBofC are the prime culprit here. Just so I'm clear though, are you implying that the BBBofC were complicit with the promoters in trying to push ahead until it became untenable owing to the leak?

It's of course difficult for any of us to make a confident judgement...

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The BBBofC were unsure of their position legally due to VADA being a contracted third party rather than their official testing agency....

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Insulting boxers with childish words like 'sniffles' is both witty and insightful. Definitely not the behaviour of an obsessive forum loser....

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The four main sanctioning bodies are each capable of issuing their illiterately named 'interim' belts at any time plus the WBA 'regular' belt hasn't completely gone away. I make that 9 belts in each weight class.

'Interim' belts are very much a 21st century phenomenon, rarely seen pre-2000....

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Jinkee seems solid as does Paris Fury.

Joe Calzaghe had issues with his wife.

I don't pay the personal lives of these people much attention to be honest.

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Regaining the IBF bauble apparently means something to him. Who can blame him when most of the fans and media keep ****ing on about "undisputed" and this glorious "four belt era"?

It looks like one of Kabayel and Parker are going to miss out so they may as well fight...

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If this forum survives another 16 years, there will still be people bickering about Pac-May.

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No surprise you were first to comment....

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The titles are hopelessly splintered anyway. The WBC, WBA and WBOgus all have 'interim' belt holders....

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Give the WBA already have Plant as 'interim' and won't force a mandatory on Canelo what's the plan here? Another 'regular' belt?

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It's because he didn't fight a proper heavyweight campaign. The fact you have to pinpoint a single fight as evidence of his historical standing tells its own story. We don't need to do that with Lennox Lewis....

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Loser above responding to himself to keep his desperate thread at the top of the page.

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If you want to throw names around it's easy to call "top bloke" Fury an anti-Semitic junkie.

Probably best to keep value judgements out of it....

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