What do you think of the 2 titles? Professional Boxing Promoters Association (PBPA). The website is pretty good, but the rankings need updating. Originally, the British Masters championship was created to run as professional boxings version of the ABAs. We wanted a knockout competition where fighters would meet each other on shows around the country culminating in a national final at Wembley Conference every year. We advertised this back in 1997 and there was major interest with professional boxers entering their names in every weight division. For the sake of fairness, we organised a draw in each division. All the entrance names were placed in a hat and the boxers where selected at random by judge Alan Simpson the then chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control. Our members started to organise shows around the draw only to find that managers who did not like the opponents there charges had drawn withdraw their fighters from the competition. This left us in the position (with championship belts initially sponsored by the British Boxing Board of Control) with not enough boxers in any division that were willing to fight each other. We abandoned this approach and set the title up as it is today. Its very easy to challenge for the title. Its more difficult to win it and having to defend it no matter what with 30 days notice, its difficult to hang on to it. The International Masters championship was created due to the influx of Eastern European boxers and the advent of women in professional boxing. A number of promoters approached us to create a title that women could fight for and anybody outside the U.K could challenge for. The reason for this was that there are a limited number of women boxers licensed in the U.K so invariably to match them up, you had to bring in competition from abroad and having accepted that position, the championship had to be available to male boxers as well. The title is contested over 10 x 3 minutes rounds. Any professional boxer can challenge for a British Masters title provided they hold a current professional boxers licence issued by the British Boxing Board of Control. A competing boxer must have previously fought over 8 x 3 minuet rounds and fought in at least 10 professional fights. Champions are required to defend their titles provide they receive a minimum of 30 days notice. Failure to comply with this may result in the champion being stripped of the title. Champions who cannot defend their titles when challenged can relinquish the title and become the mandatory challenger. The new champion cannot fight any new challenger until the previous obligation has been fulfilled. British, European and Commonwealth champions cannot challenge for our title. WBC, WBA and WBO international champions cannot fight for our title. All former champions can challenge for the title
What I want to know is how come 2 Brits often fight for the international belt And as good as it is for extra money and interest you have basically said yourself the titles mean nothing You could have a 0 60 record but as long as you have done an 8 rounder,you can fight for it Then how often do fighters defend their belts and what impact does it have on their British boards ranking,anything unlikely The problem with these is as useful as they are to promoters and fighters in small halls isn't there a way you could use these titles so they hold more leverage A better way would be to be only for boxers who have had 10 fights or under over 6 rounds You might get some good prospects fighting and they could defend it until they get up to 10 fights Still anybody trying to bring something to the lower end of the domestic scene is good by me
If it was up to me it would be a King's ransom, but it's probably more like 300 quids worth of Lidl vouchers and a gallon of beer.