At What Point Did Belts Become A Joke?

of course it would its actually impossible to have more than 1 world champion in a weight class

 

the IBF watered the idea of belts down but the correct answer is the creation of the WBO . . . after that every tome dick and harry thought they could create a sanctioning body.

The Ring belt is a step in the right direction though

 

Pretty much when business became a priority over sport. Mid/late 90's.

 

When they started mass producing the belts.

 

on march 19, 1989, 3:35pm

 

Sadly nowadays i consider the WBO more legit than the WBA or WBC who are just joke organisations right now (yes i know they are all bad)

 

The WBO opened the floodgates for the Alphabetti-Spaghetti sanctioning bodies, although actually now they're not the worst of the four main ones (that's the WBA) but they are indirectly responsible for the creation of the WBF, WBU, UBO, GBU, etc, etc.

 

30 years ago when these sanctioning bodies came into being.titles nowadays dont mean anything unless its undisputed or lineal

 

In the late 80s, early 90s. When I was a kid, everybody knew who the champions were: Hagler, Holmes, Spinks, Duran. By the time I was in college (mid 90s) there were multiple champs in nearly every division.