IBF pretty clear. They forced chsmpions to fight with their official pretendent and make good mandatory. If someone avoid their eliminator they drop boxer down in rankings. They are quiet good compare to other. WBC is tragedy but they act like that for long time.
Like a boxer who excels in certain areas, the boxing orgs have their unique strengths as it pertains to how **** they are. The thing is, at any moment they can change their own rules and/or make questionable decisions and nothing is usually done to them (FBI raid on IBF, Rochigianni lawsuit on WBC and a few others being rare exceptions)
Also, I still maintain that if they cared the Association of boxing commissions and the British boxing board could clean them up by simply telling them to comply with their rules or not sanction any match with one of their belts on the line.
Great point. Unfortunately, the old boys club at the BBBoC are pretty endebted to Warren, so they aren't going to make moves against his interests.
They did at the end of 2022, only for the WBA to stake a claim that they were next in line which the IBF agreed to and so rescinded their mandatory order for Usyk/Hrgovic. IBF also stated they would be next in line after the WBA so with Usyk having faced Joshua in a rematch which was ordered by the WBO and Dubois for the WBA mandatory should be clear to fight his IBF mandatory Hrgovic. I fully expect the IBF to order the fight at some point soon. The IBF for all their faults don't have silver or regular belts, seem to follow their own rules for the most part. They are the least worst of a terrible bunch. There main fault is not mandating eliminators often enough hence whey they so often don't have a number 1 ranked contender in their rankings. Which compared to the multiple world title belts from the WBA and WBC and the WBC's refusal to enforce mandatories at all is a minor gripe. IBF are the best, WBA the next worst and the WBC are a joke of an organisation.
Prior to the rescinded Hrgovic mandatory in late 2022 it would of been Pulev in late 2020 and prior to that Takam in 2017 when Pulev pulled out on short notice for his mandated shot at AJ. Obviously for a unified champion it's hard to face a mandatory regularly, especially if they only fight once or twice per year. Prior to the Dubois WBA mandatory their last mandatory at heavyweight was Povetkin in 2018, 5 years ago, so as bad as the IBF are, still way better than the WBA when it comes to ordering timely mandatories.
I don't really rate any of the alphabet orgs, but few are as blatantly corrupt as the WBC, with only the WBA providing them competition. At any rate, it's not the belt that makes the man, it's the man that makes the belt, and right now Fury has made the WBC belt into a big pair of braces for holding up a giant pair of clown trousers.
The WBO emerged as the most prestigious ( least corrupt) title a long time ago . They're all garbage, though.
People used to say a UFC organization model for boxing could never work, as the big stars wouldn't come over due to being underpaid compared to the "free market" of boxing. The Saudi's may be the one group that could put toghether a league format and big salaries for boxing stars.