11 belt holders. 12 if Ward beats Froch. Donaire just vacated. Austin Trout, Dawson, Kirkland, Quillin, and Dirrell brothers waiting in the wings for title shots. Garcia fighting Morales in January. Hmm waiting on that death everyone keeps mentioning? Where's all those Iron Curtain fighters taking American straps? When is Senchenko gonna call out Mayweather and show him whats what?
Belts don't mean anything these days when you've got sanctioning orgs handing them out to the Chavez's and Canelo's and with pre-arranged home-cooking like in today's fight and Devon Alexander fights. Reality is the US only have 1 Ring champ, and the only reason Hopkins keeps that title is due to GBP influence on the the WBC in their overturning of the TKO2 loss to Dawson.
There are only 5 ring champs in all of boxing. If you look at the American champions, very few won their titles fighting scrubs or collecting paper belts. Most you can point to and say that guy beat a champion for his title. Bundrage and Cloud are really the only guys who didnt beat top flight competition to get their titles.
its been a great year for african american boxers. we got people like peterson and kirkland beating the odds, mayweather remains undefeated and moved back up to #1 P4P, andre ward has made it to the S6 finals and will most likely win it, hopkins became the oldest man in history to win a title, berto participated in the fight of the year, and we have great up and coming prospects that got a big buzz this year like gary russell jr, adrien broner, and seth mitchell. 2011 is our year and 2012 will be even greater!
3 potential fights of the year involved African-American fighters. This is after posters like Jack and Freddie called us soft.
You were right about all the other fighters you mentioned! Berto got his ass spanked, leave him off the list.. Maybe Berto could redeem himself next year.. You never know! PS: Your mama swallows donkey semen for lunch every Tuesday of every odd month. :good
for a population of 38 million, African Americans are doing decent I guess. odds are stacked against them