the IBO interesting view

sorry if already posted took it from the criminal forum

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/bell-rings-for-title-changes/story-e6frep5o-1225898604401

interesting extract from said article , not sure how true it is but it makes for some disturbing reading

Danny Green's belt comes from the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) which operates out of offices in Florida. One of the newer world boxing authorities (it came along between the IBF and the WBF – or it might have been the IBA, it definitely had an B in it) it describes itself as "The Champion of Integrity".

What sets the IBO apart from the older, more recognised bodies such as the WBA, is that it doesn't rely on a committee of experts to work out its rankings. It uses a computer. A computer that never says, "Are you out of your mind?" which is how Paul Briggs was able to fight for a world title last week.

See, every month the WBA committee members sit down and work out who they think are the top 10 boxers who fight under their banner. For the No.10 fighter to move up the ranks he must challenge the No.9 fighter and beat him, and so on up the ladder. The world champion must fight the No.1 or No.2-ranked fighter within nine months of his past defence.

The IBO doesn't work like that. It doesn't have its own rankings per se. Instead it feeds the details of everyone from all the organisations, from WBA to WBZ, into the computer. The IBO world champion then picks who he wants to fight from the top 35 ranked contenders, pays the IBO a fee of around $20,000 plus airfares and accommodation for IBO judges and a supervisor and everyone's a winner. Except for the loser of course – although with $200,000 for 29 seconds work, Paul Briggs might disagree.

But wait, I hear you cry. Even feeding his excellent past record into the computer, how could Briggs possibly be in the top 35 contenders when he hadn't fought for three years?

Excellent point, and one which I went to the very top to clear up. Unfortunately the president of the IBO, Edward S. Levine, was on vacation and unavailable and the vice-president, his son, Jeremy D. Levine, was on his way back from Perth where he had been supervisor of the fight. But I did receive a prompt reply from the assistant to the president, Maria Canizares, who advised that the challenger can be ranked between 36 and 50 as long as "he has not lost his last fight, not lost any two of his last four fights by knockout and has a positive record in his last six fights".

And then the whammy, the $200,000, world title clause: "There is no time requirement with regard to when they had their last fight".

Now taking all those conditions into account the good thing is that Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier are not eligible to fight Danny Green for an IBO world title. The worrying thing is that Joe Bugner is.

Don't laugh. Sillier things have happened. Ask Lester Ellis.

 

bumb for those that havent seen it

 

well in his case i see why he kept it why have another promoter putting on yet another world heavyweight titkle fight , the less of them there are the more important his fights become if you catch my drift

but i agree the IBO are garbage

 

im pretty sure it was an exaduration to make a point + hows joe ganna make cruiser