Better Accomplishment: Ring Magazine Belt or Unifying the WBC/WBA/IBF/WBO Belts?

Soriano · Feb 22, 2009

Ring Magazine belt is equivalent to one inferior alphabet belt. Definitely, unifying these belts is far greater.

Damo1712 · Feb 22, 2009

fleaman said: ↑

Yeah but if you've unified all the titles you must have been beating a lot of good men.

Most thought it would be a 50-50 fight between JMM and Campbell.

I guess it depends on who you beat to win the Ring Title (casamayor) or who you beat to get the belts that would determine the best in the division (Campbell beat Juan Diaz of course)

There isn't much between those two fighters IMO. Casamayor was on the slide but coming off the back of a good win (and Marquez was stepping up in weight) but Campbell, despite beating a young, fresh and very good unified champion, was almost accused of winning it on a fluke due to his record pre-Diaz (even though he Draw in a disputed match with Casamayor and beat Kid Diamond, once proclaimed the man to clear up the LW division )

Just a recent example I can think of. Naz didn't have all the belts when Barrera faced him, but beating the linear champ did more for Barrera than winning the paper belts one by one (can anyone remember which title was on the line that night?)

And Malignaggi gave up the IBF title to fight Ring champ Hatton (money) and Dawson gave up the prestigious WBC belt to fight Tarver for the IBF.

Don't know where I'm going here, other than money fights now being the top draw rather than title fights.
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it was the ibo title that was on the line between barrera and naz

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