These Southern Hemisphere Titles

Anyone agree that before Fighting on the World stage any fighter from the Southern Hemisphere before he gets his shot should be forced to fight the European champion first to confirm he's up to standard ?

 

This WAS exactly the case , EVERYTIME we used to see a fighter from the S/Hem in the other corner you could bet your *******s he as the BEST they had to offer and he got to be in the opposite corner the hard way & he was a capable fella these days with the odd exception its a case of who the hell is this bloke ?

 

The Historic & once massive Australian National titles are seldom mentioned on these boards mate is this because if anyone who's any good goes straight up to Pan Asia or whatever it's called level ? It's like your football team always qualifying for major tournaments it's not down to ability their qualification is based on geography .

 

BTW my mate went down under and fought for the Heavyweight title of Queensland and he started out at Welter ( musta shared digs with Chauncey above the pie shop )

 

Is this down to grabbing promoters who don't give a s hite or average fighters content and happy to get the one payday and the chance to say " I fought for the championship of the world " like Alex Leapia etc ?

 

Yea I've suspected this for a long time it seems the likes of Soliman , Geale , Fletcher are squeezing that lemon for all it's worth they lose a title shot fight one meaningless fight back home ( in Geale & Fletchers case ) then they regain a top five ranking due to the said ****ty pan Pacific having world ranking status , Bloody crazy **** when you consider a kid like Billy Joe Saunders handed Jarrod his **** in a few rounds but has yet to fight at World title level .

 

Come on mate a bloke of your standing can contribute more than this to the thread . Any chance of you trying to explain to a confused foreigner like myself the structure of these S/Hemisohere , Asian titles and just how hard is it to get a title shot ?