Do the American media still ignore the WBO?

Ahhh

I smell an agenda against Joe i think.

 

Well i believe they considered Holyfields recent challenge to Sultan to be an attempt at winning his 5th heavyweight title...

so they regard it as a world title at the very least

 

What do you mean 'recognise' it. Of course they mention it and call it the world championship on the TV, and will recognise it as part of a unification bout, so of course they 'recognise' it. They will call a former WBO champ a former world champion. Same with a present WBO champ.

All the belts are meaningless, so why do you think it is great that the USA only used to recognise the 'big three'. WBO actually has a comparitively better list of current champs than IBF and WBA. Ask yourself what exactly makes the IBF any better than the WBO. Its older, but who cares?

 

Hell, why recognise the WBO if all its gonna do is raise questions about not fighting the WBO champ.

 

it's becoming more legitimate nowadays, whilst imo the ibf is becoming a joke.

 

Because people are smart enough to realise that any alpahabet champ can be garbage, and will only call for a unification in a splintered division or one which has two top fighters in it.

Nobody wants Calzaghe to fight Bute for the IBF because he is the man at 168 and Bute is a paper champ.

Sometimes, the WBO champ is recognised as the best in the weightclass and does not need to go after the WBC champ. The belts are pretty much meaningless.

 

To me, the WBO which may have lacked a bit of credibility due to Bowe treating it like **** in the early to mid 90s began to garner a bit of respect amongst Americans after Lamon Brewster won it back in 2004.

Back then, many considered him to be the best American heavyweight and certainly the most exciting...its worth seemed to increase after that.

That being said, seeing as the golden boy saw fit to claim to be a 6 weight world champion having held the belt at 130 and 160, the Americans really have had no choice to acknowledge it as a legit world title otherwise they can't hype DLH as having been a champ at those two divisions.

 

Do KO and Ring magazine still ignore it?

 

Calzaghe was Ring champ when he only held the WBO after he was stripped of the IBF.