Here in Canada we have the Canadian champion. Thats kinda like the English or british champion. The common wealth championship is a funny one cause I can't remember the last time a Canadian held or even contested it. I guess either we don't bother with it or its mainly a belt reserved for british and african fighters fighting out of britain. As far as the NABO and NABF we get fighters contesting them every so often but I don't think anyone really cares about recognizing either one as the true north american championship. People really could cares less. When these titles are on the line on and ESPN show or a Versus show they barely even mention them.
There is almost no attention paid to these titles other than by the fighters striving toward them at that moment in their careers.
North American title, European title..who cares. These belts are garbage. You're either the world champ or you're not.
Thats ignorant, tell that to the guy who has these belts, I am sure he would be willing to debate you. Ever hear of stepping stones? Every sport has and needs different levels of competition.
The "Television Championship" in pro wrestling means more than a continental title in boxing. There are two columns - in one you have world champions (we'll generously extend this to mean any titlist in any of the four major sanctioning bodies; preferably non-interim, or at least defended multiple times if so...), and in the other you have non-world champions. From tomato cans to number one contenders - if you're not a world champ, you're not a champ.
Pointless. It's why the boxing world is such a f*&king disaster. Too many pointless belts. Stepping stone? Fight better fighters and beat them. That's the way they used to do it.
Without these different titles there would be half the fights that there is these days, how many big domestic fights do you see that are a non-title event. Not many, they are steppings stones to bigger things, without them prospects wouldn't have any indication wether they are ready for the world stage. they also give us some of the classic wars at domestic level i.e Ryan Rhodes vs Jamie Moore for the EBU title absoulute epic fight.
They wern't pointless originally before the proliferation of 'world' titles but they have been devalued quite a bit.
I believe both Steve Molitor and Troy Ross held the Commonwealth belt, although I don't think either defended it as they went on to bigger fights...
eh, Nobody in the states I know really gives a **** about the NABO or NABF belt. Hell the WBC continental Americas belt probably has more sway than those two here.