A brief history of the ABC era (boxing's sanctioning organizations)

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  1. Surrix

    Surrix Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The Ring was old journal, then WBA and WBC.

    WBC really is respect like this: Makabu vs Durodola fight ( vs 40 y.o Durodola version, thank you Mauricio and WBC ).
    We do know about Durodola long years ago. Again thank you WBC.

    WBA I think does have xxxxx belts, I now do not have even a clue.
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    WBO is not bad thing I think.

    IBF looks nice thing.

    IBO actually for me looks more valuable than ppl usually think and looks that they too are US based org.

    Basically all orgs are US based ( mainly ).
     
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    A.J and Wlad had also IBO belt, I don't know does A.J today have it?
     
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  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Only the IBF, actually. WBA is based in Venezuela (formerly Panama), the WBC is headquartered in Mexico (and historically does have a slight bias toward Mexicans over every other country, athough its rankings are pretty cosmopolitan and encompass the whole globe), and the WBO is Swiss and definitely has always featured more continental Europeans than anything else. :thumbsup:
     
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  4. Surrix

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    Didn't had Frank in U.K staged a lot of their title fights at least earlier and now Eddie and MTK in U.K. Yeah, these Kalle & Co etc too plus if about US Bob& Co too?
    Wasn't first world title fight Bob get for Loma for WBO title?
     
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  5. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Yes. They had a strong UK presence as well for a while (Calzaghe was among the first champs to really help legitimize them) but always foremost mainland Europe.
     
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  6. Surrix

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    Ohh, now this MTK tournament had lads with WBO euro title and Eddie had get for Okolie WBO World title fight etc.
     
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  7. Badbot

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    :neng2kb:
     
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  8. The G-Man

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    My head hurts from reading that.

    Corrupt POS.
     
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  9. MaccaveliMacc

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    So, to sum up, which bodies crowned legit world champions before 60's era of WBC & WBA?
     
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  10. IntentionalButt

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    In the late 19th and first half of the following century it was mostly by acclamation - lineage based (although broken a couple of times), going from Sullivan to Dempsey. Before the 1960s there were three proto-entities with the claimed authority to crown world champions: two American bodies, NYSAC and the NBA, plus the IBU across the pond. They pretty much all remained in agreement on the subject of who the champ was in the pre-television era, however, so there wasn't much worry about disputed status or fracturing ...yet.
     
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  11. IntentionalButt

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    IBA Pro - a branch of the organization previously called AIBA (the disgraced former longtime administrators of boxing at the Olympics) - began sanctioning "world titles" in the last few years as well.
     
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  12. HistoryZero26

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    The Regular and Silver belts would be a good idea if we had only 1 sanctioning body. With 4 bodies interim titles make more sense because you can make an interim champion when its appropriate opposed as needing to have one. If there was 1 body always having an interim champion(which is what these concepts basically are) is a great idea so you have a clear succession plan in place. That fighter in theory would be the 2nd best in the world not someone like Charr and Pulev.

    Designating a champion with more credibility "Super" would be a good idea that encourages champions to fight other claimants if it was only applied to normal(not regular) WBA belts.
     
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