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WBO has been a major organisation since the late 90's.
The only reason why people state that it was not, a major organisation 'Is because america's probably could not be the WBO champions' |
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Fat Lar credited with IBF in spite of being the first guy to own it after ducking his WBC mandatories and stripped. And the IBF founder within months earned a felony sentence to the Big House for fraud or some like offense. Doodling your noodle with too much time on your hands? |
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I mean we've literally always had competing titles. Why is it then the Colored or NSC belts are to this day lesser belts while the WBO is not? Did Langford not fight the top colored men of the colorline era? Was the NSC not a body that enforced their own ranks? I'm not being a smartass, btw, these are honest questions. I wouldn't have made a thread about it if I understood. Quote:
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Image View Removed. Please Click Here. A little bit yes, but more than that it has to do with research I've been doing into Ring itself and how Ring has influenced fans opinions on subjects like lineal and p4p.It is important to understand how titles got legitimized and I never questioned the other body narrative because I never really had a reason to consider it. ------- So, basically, we accept Wlad's pre-acknowledged WBO era because we feel the acknowledgement itself is just formalization of how fans feel anyway and so a bit slower than fan acknowledgement? Where is the cut off? Hypothetically if the IBO became a major title....which...I don't understand why it isn't a major body if official major body acknowledgement is secondary to fan acknowledgement than surely the IBO is already a major title given fans know it. But anyway, let's say it became a major title tomorrow, would we then acknowledge men who held that title prior to it being considered major? Reigns? Thanks for the input fellas, I appreciate y'all. |
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Weather you like it or not, the WBO is now a prestigious world title. 'WBC' over these past few years has not really had the best ambassadors. |
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The IBF is the only one that held out until 2007 to recognize WBO champions on their rankings. The WBA as early as 2000. Regardless, the WBO has been sanctioning major title fights since the 80s. Interestingly, Tyson was recognized as the undisputed HW champ by the other three, without the WBO title.
He was also beating the same quality level opponents to win the WBO as he did the IBF and WBA. So what matters more, sanctioning bodies or quality of opposition? I actually prefer The Ring titles to the other four sanctioning bodies. |
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Same here. The physical potential was there for sure but he just didn't go for it enough.He was fortunate to be fighting in one of the weakest heavyweight era's ever IMO.Would he have troubled the 70's heavyweights ? Perhaps because of his size and strength, but those whiskers would be ripe for Foreman,Frazier,Lyle, Shavers etc.Those guys would rip your head off with bad intentions, Wlad ? Not so much.
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