If a Champ has two belts, say...WBC and WBO...can he stake only one of them?

Yes. Baldomir won a fight, and the IBF gave the belt back to Judah.

Pavlik should hold aloft the WBO belt and discard the WBC one when he beats Taylor, so should Calzaghe when he beats Kessler.
People should then realise who the champ is. The IBF lost all credit when it started stripping fighters and when it gave Judah the title back. WBA went with the superchamp crap. WBO superchamp must win 10 WBO title fights at the weight in a row. that means something.

 

The WBO also has had some of the worst rankings for fighters in recent years, though they have somewhat improved. None of those belts are better than the other.

 

Baldomir only had the WBC belt when fought Mayweather, so Floyd didn't have any choice in the matter. The reason Baldo only won the WBC belt from Judah was because he couldn't afford to pay the sanctioning fees for all three titles.


And for the record, it was Judah who only wanted to put the WBC belt up against Mayweather when their fight was originally scheduled before the Baldomir loss.

 

Gimme a ****ing break. The WBO kept a advancing a dead fighter (who had fought only once in the last three years of his life) into the top ten of their World Championship rankings a few years back. They had notoriously bad rankings for years.

All the belts are **** these days, don't pretend otherwise.

 

It's usually the challenger who chooses whether or not to pay the sanctioning fee in order to challenge for the titles; however, there have been some cases where the sanctioning bodies refused to sanction a fight with a poorly ranked challenger. I believe that the WBC (when it was a credible organization) refused to let Holyfield put their HW belt on the line against Bert Cooper because he wasn't ranked in the top ten at the time of the fight.