Did anyone else notice how the WBA wasnt mentioned

For years people have been saying boxing should get away from the alphabets. Who cares if the alphabets are on the line? As long as he keeps putting on good competitive fights. The boxers save money too if they don't pay sanction fees. F the WBC and WBA with their hypocrisy of enforcing rules on anyone except Floyd Manny and the K Bros. And their regular, super and interim champs would just confuse casual fans and make boxing look silly anyway.

 

I understand your point, and agree to some degree - but as a sport with decades of heritage, the idea of someone potentially rebranding and monopolising one of the oldest sports there is just seems too weird. There is a heritage that should be respected.

By the way, I thought the card was great - I'm not hating. But as a purist I fear for the sports lineage.

 

It might just be because the WBA 'interim' title would only confuse the general public. Have to wait and see if they don't mention a legitimate world championship.

 

Interesting points being made in this thread, actually agree with the post above...
For what it is worth n reliable or unreliable as it is, boxrec has it listed for WBA (or interim) belt....

http://boxrec.com/title_search.php?title=WBA&division=Welterweight&SUBMIT=Go

 

Curious what the alphabet orgs are going to do in response to last night's omission of their belts. Will they start to drop these boxers from their lists? Not that I care too much about the current orgs as they've done nothing to promote the good sport of boxing. But I am concerned about the closed circuit concept shown last night if it gets people thinking that there's no other boxing going on around the world (U.S. and UK included).

 

I enjoyed the fights but I didn't like the production, the stage looked like something from a talent show and I don't like how the fighters do not have entrance music. The commentary was meh.

 

Yet, Deontay Wilder was labeled as THE World Heavyweight Champion, which we all know is a bunch of **** because Wlad has that title, and Deontay's just a paper champ. It's too early to jump to conclusions, but you can't help but feel that there's an agenda somewhere behind all of this.

 

Long overdue? It was his first time headlining an event.
But Thurman is due a shot at Floyd.

 

Barry Hearn's gone on record as saying that Hayemen is basically trying to create a boxing league devoid of the ABC titles that are ****ing up boxing.

I'm all for that.

 

I'm not against what Haymon is doing at all.

People act like it's not good for boxing.. but tend to forget that 99% of boxers make jack ****. Take the UFC.. without the UFC making the sport viable these guys would go back to fighting club shows for peanuts.

Besides, if we can get ever get boxing to a system where we can have quality fights without having to worry about guys losing their ZERO.. all the better.. I'm tired of watching guys trying to keep that zero for too long.. not learning right.. and just trying to build up to one fat paycheck.

 

It's pretty clear after last night what he's trying to do. Yup a boxing circuit with business model similar to UFC and WWE.

Haymon will operate outside of ABC organizations and other promoters.

 

As an American, I can sadly tell you: yes.

 

Let's wait and see till the kid duckin/lee fight and the WBO belt and If they mention GGG.as for the production yesterday,it was pathetic.ot was a joke!!!

 

Maybe he didnt want to confuse the casuals as to who the champs are. Thurman isnt the real WBA champ and Broner is a former champ.

 

Regardless of what Hayman or NBC are up to, we got 2 quality matchups last night. We need more of them. Keep 'em coming.