British Masters title

brown bomber · Jul 30, 2011

HeavyT said: ↑

never thought of it that way. Who did you fight for the MasterS?
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Mcallister and Hardcastle. :good

lefthook82 · Jul 30, 2011

Journey Man said: ↑

Area level at best
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Thanks journeyman. I had Matthews in a double but had a single once you wrote this.

wrimc · Jul 31, 2011

As mentioned before the title is basically to give small hall promoters a belt for people to fight for.

I know that the purse is also set at a minimum of £1500 for each fighter so it also guarantees each fighter a decent purse. To fight for the belt all you have to do is challenge the fighter who currently owns it for it if they refuse the fight the title is automatically vacated so it can be used for another contest.

maley1984 · Aug 1, 2011

as i understand it the masters title leads a fighter to number 1 ranking for the english title its not a major title just a stepping stone to the english title

HeavyT · Aug 1, 2011

maley1984 said: ↑

as i understand it the masters title leads a fighter to number 1 ranking for the english title its not a major title just a stepping stone to the english title
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What if you arent english?

rooq · Aug 1, 2011

A History of the British and International Masters title

http://professionalboxingpromotorsa...ption=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=2

Originally, the British Masters championship was created to run as professional boxing’s version of the ABAs. We wanted a knockout competition where fighters would meet each other on shows around the country culminating in a national final at Wembley Conference every year. We advertised this back in 1997 and there was major interest with professional boxers entering their names in every weight division. For the sake of fairness, we organised a draw in each division. All the entrance names were placed in a hat and the boxers where selected at random by judge Alan Simpson the then chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control. Our members started to organise shows around the draw only to find that managers who did not like the opponents there charges had drawn withdraw their fighters from the competition. This left us in the position (with championship belts initially sponsored by the British Boxing Board of Control) with not enough boxers in any division that were willing to fight each other. We abandoned this approach and set the title up as it is today. It’s very easy to challenge for the title. It’s more difficult to win it and having to defend it no matter what with 30 days notice, it’s difficult to hang on to it.

The International Masters championship was created due to the influx of Eastern European boxers and the advent of women in professional boxing. A number of promoters approached us to create a title that women could fight for and anybody outside the U.K could challenge for. The reason for this was that there are a limited number of women boxers licensed in the U.K so invariably to match them up, you had to bring in competition from abroad and having accepted that position, the championship had to be available to male boxers as well.

Our titles have come a long way since we started. Many of our champions have gone onto British, European and even significant World titles. A British Masters championship fight has been nominated for inclusion in the fight of the year at the British Boxing Board of Control annual awards ceremony.
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HeavyT · Aug 1, 2011

rooq said: ↑

A History of the British and International Masters title

http://professionalboxingpromotorsa...ption=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=2
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cheers pal :good

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