Alphabet Soup Madness: How it all started

the sanctioning bodies have combined to ruin any credibility they once had.

self serving cancer on the sport.

but they serve a purpose for promoters.

so they won't be going anywhere. :verysad

 

and right now the new order:

1. wbo
2. ibf



3. wbc














4. wba

 

Cheers for posting. I didn't know Japan still doesn't recognise the WBO or the IBF. Respect.

 

I give them credit but unfortunately for them the WBA and the WBC are by far the biggest jokes of all the sanctioning bodies

 

Dunno if it's just my Particular age but the wbo really seemed to screw it up when they came along.

3 seemed manageable, 4 was daft and then it just went berserk until the whole thing consumed itself to a point where now, it just doesn't even really matter.

Probably just what i was used to though (3 belts)

 

As pathetic as it is having all these alphabet soup titles. It'd be pretty bad aswell just having one, imo. Can you imagine if there was only the WBC? Just think of the amount of fighters who'd be frozen out and no one would be making much moolah either. In an ideal world two belts would be perfect.

 

One would be fine if there was a decent worldwide boxing board. Unfortunately the sanctioning bodies all have clowns in charge of them.

 

do away with all of them, boxing has become too hard to follow lately and i dont mean from all the world title but its just pisses you off so much with all the drama and the best fights not happening, imagine how good it would be if it was governed by one non corrupt body

 

The chances of having one board is very unlikely. The chances of getting one board and that one board being 'decent' is just extremely improbable. Fantasy land.

Having one organisation would just mean people like Sillyman having more power.

 

1920? Queensberry Rules have always had trouble defining their World Champions. It is a bit of a myth to suggest there was this golden period of only eight divisions, each with one World Champ. Well actually, that is not strictly true, there was a golden period, in 1948 and 1949. Then there was only eight divisions (130 and 140 had temporarily ceased), and each division had a universally recognized champion. The only time since 1882 that, that has happened in boxing.