Rank the Titles

Each to his own, I guess - I obviously reckon something different!

 

Certainly agree with these 3 in terms of world titles.

Even the IBF hasn't been around that long. Though at least they are way ahead of the other, more recent additions.

When you take a step back and think about it, it's a disgrace that there's more than one world title! How can a bloke say he's the best in the world when there's any number of other guys who can say the same thing! How many worlds are there - only one last time I looked!

Commonwealth titles used to be well respected and sought after by Aussies. But it seems that they've drowned in the alphabet soup.

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I rank none of them, there all a total joke, the lot of them.

 

At the moment the way i rank them these days...
WBC..WBA...WBO & then IBF.

IBF especially is doing terrible things of stripping fighters for not having fought their dodgy mandatories.
The reason why they have become so strict in their defense is after their corruption investigations a few years back.
They have been forced to follow all their rules strictly.

WBA is a joke with their 3 champs in 1 divisions.
WBO has vastly improved IMO in recent times.

IBO is always getting more & more credible too.

 

All much in a muchness. They get you a ranking with the body.

 

The reason is there only one in USA is IBF and have Mandatories, I think IBO is USA based aswell.
But the IBF has the government looking at them all the time mainly the FBI and they can jailed in USA, the others if you have notice at all round the USA in Latin countries, so that USA can't investigate them, They got BOB LEE back in 99 and he went to jail, the US government should make the IBF the only one that can put at title fight on because there in USA and can be held accountable by government departments.

 

All the same ****, they are as bad as each other.

 

I like the WBC and IBO...... i just like the look of the belts :good and Geale is a IBO WORLD Champ :happy

 

:deal

 

I am very comfortable with the big 4 WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF. The WBO is a johnny come lately but Calzaghe and Marco Antonio Barrera were proud WBO champions and did a huge job validating them.

There are 4 majors in golf and tennis and not too many lurkers get a belt from the big 4.

Its hard to stamp out interlopers as the sanctioning fee business can be a very steady earn.

 

I rank

1. WBC
2.WBA
3. IBF
4.WBO
5. IBO ***

Dont rate the IBO at all as it is a bit of a joke some of these title matches at the moment ....like Dib , Geale v Dawson ( for a world title..cmon) , medley has fought for IBO , asiku will on oct 25 , darchinyan won the IBO recently ..i mean no disrespect to any of these guys but i think the fact that Geale is IBO "World" Champ is actually disrespecting the other champs in other divisions ..but will do Geale a tremendous help in his career in regards to positioning himself into other fights ..but IBO seems abit amatuerish much like the WBU ( Mirovic v Calloway ..which andy raymond played off as a legitimate world title..which in theory it is ..but it has no weight in boxing)

Also i am going to contradict myself here but i can see the IBO becoming one of the biggest in the near future alongside wbc , etc for 2 reasons .

1/ IBO champions dont have to defend the belt as much and dont get stripped if they unify a division and dont defend against so and so ( like IBF seem to be doing alot lately )..ricky hatton has been one that has come out and praised the ibo for this and reckons alot of fighters will target this belt because of this ...

2/ now in its infancy it can sanction world title fights basically in any big name fight these days ..such as Katsidis v Diaz recently , also hopkins v calzaghe , tarver v roy i think was as well or one of tarvers fights recently was for a ibo world title ( help me out here guys) ...and when u get some big names holding your belt ...the belt starts to get a bit of respect ...

 

I rank the Ring Magazine as the true indicator. For the record, pretty sure Mirovic v Calloway was for the WBF strap. Not WBU.

 

Good call ref the Commonwealth titles , when you look at the fighters from around the world who back in the day pissed blood attempting to capture one of these historic titles it should be held in a much higher regard than a few of these Mickey Mouse nasty plastic belts , im a firm beliver in the old school way about things from a British perspective ie , Welsh , Brit , Commonwealth & European titles first then if good enough a stab at a proper World title fight , when you look around and see some of these guys who proclaim to be "World Champion " these days it shows a complete lack of respect to the memory of some of the fighters who fell just short attempting to win a Commonwealth title . :deal

 

European and North American regional titles are the best.
However, the belt doesn't really matter. it depends on who is fighting for that belt.
If the best fighters want the belt, then it gives it credibility. at one stage there, the number 1 ranked light heavy held the IBO belt.
the worst belts are the ones that allow too many voluntary defences before they enforce a mandatory.