Has any long term WBO champions made the ibhof?

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  1. general zod

    general zod World Champion Full Member

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    Does anyone here know of any?
     
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  2. cyrax99

    cyrax99 The Greatest Full Member

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    Calzaghe had the WBO championship for a longggg time.
     
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  3. DrMo

    DrMo Team GB Full Member

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    Bailey will know
     
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  4. moneypaysbills

    moneypaysbills That's Mr moneypaysbills Full Member

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    Wait till Calzaghe is eligible for the HOF. If he doesn't get in then I'm not sure of any other eligible long term WBO holders
     
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  5. richie leon

    richie leon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    But eventually, he also won the other 3 major belts at 168 and moved up to 175 to win the Ring title there. If he would have been content to just ride off into the sunset sitting on his WBO belt, he wouldn't be as highly regarded.

    Not 100% sure if the TS was wondering about strictly long term WBO champs, just saying.
     
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  6. FilipMNE

    FilipMNE Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :deal If he only held WBO he would not deserve but he unified 168 so he will be in.
     
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  7. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Hasn't really been around long enough. you gotta be retired 5 years. So it only has 20 years of history and I'm not sure how many of those years had long term champs.

    Calzaghe will get in certainly.
     
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  8. BatTheMan

    BatTheMan Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I don't.

    But if not for blatant US bias among the voters, Dariusz Michalszewski would have been in. He absolutely deserved it.

    Next year Joe Calaghe will get in though.
     
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  9. Larryboys

    Larryboys Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Calzaghe, Wlad and Ivan Calderon are all in with a good chance of getting in I reckon. It was a stepping stone belt up to about 2000, most people dropped it when the chance for something better came up, or didn't fight for it at all. It made up part of Hopkins undisputed title at middleweight though he didn't add it until a few years after the others, I don't think he had it much more than a year.
     
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  10. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    **** no
     
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  11. kmac

    kmac On permanent vacation Full Member

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    the wbo started in '88 or '89 and they weren't recognized as one of the major belts until the turn of the millennium so they haven't been around long enough and didn't usually have top fighters as their champs. calzaghe will be the first to get in and then the kilts should both follow.
     
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  12. FloydPatterson

    FloydPatterson Boxing Addict banned

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    pfffffffft.... WBO :lol:
     
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  13. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    What'd Naseem hold? Pretty sure it was WBO for a while
     
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  14. BatTheMan

    BatTheMan Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The question was about the IBHOF.
     
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  15. SugarShane_24

    SugarShane_24 ESB good-looking member Full Member

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    However when you think about it, he was really the linear champion who won it from Virgil Hill, all the titles just got stripped and he settled for the WBO variety.

    So he was already something even before he got the WBO belt.
     
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