Sanctioning bodies ranked by CHAMPIONS in each weight?

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  1. EnzoRD

    EnzoRD Well-Known Member Full Member

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    What sanctioning body do you think has the best champions right now? And how would you rank them?

    i.e
    1# WBO
    2# WBA
    3# IBF
    4# WBC

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_world_boxing_champions

    Looking at them, I'm quite impressed with the WBO.

    They have the best heavyweight, cruiserweight, light-heavyweight, arguably super-middleweight and super lightweight. And they could argue the case of the lower weights from there.
     
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  2. Pugilist_Spec

    Pugilist_Spec Hands Of Stone Full Member

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    My brain imploded. Give me a minute here.
     
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  3. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    best champion by weight

    heavyweight - wba,wbo
    cruiserweight - wba
    light heavyweight - ibf,wbo,wba
    super middleweight - ibf
    middleweight - wba,ibf
    light middleweight - wba
    welterweight - ibf
    light welterweight - wbc or wbo
    lightweight - ibf(hard to call)
    super featherweight - wba
    featherweight - wbo
    super bantem - wba,ibf
    bantem - wbc
    super fly - wbo
    fly - wbc
    light fly - wbo
    straw - wbo
     
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  4. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    so thats

    wba - 7
    wbc - 3
    ibf - 6
    wbo - 7

    pretty even apart from the wbc which is pretty weak
     
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  5. ryuken87

    ryuken87 Active Member Full Member

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    I think this is an interesting way of looking at things. However, in many divisions it's hard to tell. WBO definately have HW, LHW, LWW and Featherweight. SMW I reckon DeGale is the best of the bunch but he, Abraham and Jack are more or less on the same level. I'm don't know enough about CW to comment.

    Even though the WBA belt situation is a joke they definately have HW, LHW, MW, LMW and SBW (if you count 'in recess' Rigo). WBC is by far the worst of the bunch, which of their belt holders is definately the best in the division? Linares? (I don't know much about the weights south of SBW).
     
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  6. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    the only wbc champion that is a definte division number one is Yamanaka and Gonzalez, bantemweight and flyweight
     
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  7. EnzoRD

    EnzoRD Well-Known Member Full Member

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    That was around similar to what I got.

    I'm very surprised just how weak WBC is when compared this way.
     
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  8. Stallion

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    HW - WBA/WBO
    200 - WBA/WBC
    175 - WBA/IBF/WBO
    168 - IBF
    160 - WBA/IBF
    154 - WBA
    147 - IBF
    140 - WBC/WBO
    135 - IBF
    130 - WBA
    126 - WBO
    122 - WBA/IBF
    120 - WBC
    115 - WBO
    112 - WBC
    108 & 105 - No idea.

    1. WBA (7)
    2. IBF (6)
    3. WBO (5)
    4. WBC (4)
     
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  9. EnzoRD

    EnzoRD Well-Known Member Full Member

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    So not sure about Postol/Crawford and Lebedev/Drozd ?
     
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  10. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    Yep, the WBC used to have the strongest champs, but that has drastically changed.
    Now they had a lot of vacant belts with undeserving (mostly Mexican or American) guys fighting for them, and many paper "champions" who don't have to defend their belts against legit opposition.
     
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  11. EnzoRD

    EnzoRD Well-Known Member Full Member

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  12. FrancescoD

    FrancescoD Active Member Full Member

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    If you add the IBO in and count Hekkie Budler in, they have 4 too.
    Tyson Fury, Golovkin, Lara and Budler.
    But some don't want to count the organisation that is fair and non corruptable and just point to the lesser champions.
     
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  13. EnzoRD

    EnzoRD Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I can understand them not recognising the IBO simply because there is already four other major sanctioning bodies.

    Doesn't the IBO use some sort of computer system?
     
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  14. Robney

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    Yep, and don't charge money either (non profit).
     
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  15. Leoh

    Leoh Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    WBC should cease to exist as a major governing body and replaced by IBO. They are just way too corrupt.
     
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