The whole IBO/Eubank charade is embarrassing

Did senior grab a proper belt ?
I thought he was WBO champion at 160 and 168, and that's it. The WBO was a joke at the time in almost every division.

Yes, he did have some very good fights (namely Benn and Watson, a couple of others).

 

Sr stayed loyal to the WBO and never fought any of the top American fighters, he kept well away from them.

 

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Notable past and current IBO Champions

• Vinny Pazienza, former Super Middleweight champion
• Tomasz Adamek, former Cruiserweight champion
• Danny Green, former Cruiserweight champion
• Thomas Hearns, former Cruiserweight champion
• Lennox Lewis, former Heavyweight champion
• Brian Nielsen, former Heavyweight champion
• James Toney, former Cruiserweight champion
• Wladimir Klitschko, former Heavyweight champion
• Roy Jones, Jr., former Light Heavyweight champion
• Paulie Ayala, former Super Bantamweight champion
• Marco Antonio Barrera, former Featherweighht champion
• Naseem Hamed, former Featherweighht champion
• Jeff Lacy, former Super Middleweight champion
• Floyd Mayweather, Jr., former Welterweight champion
• Ricky Hatton, former Light Welterweight champion
• Chad Dawson, former Light Heavyweight champion
• Manny Pacquiao, former Light Welterweight champion
• Juan Manuel Marquez, former Lightweight champion
• Antonio Tarver, former Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion
• Pinklon Thomas, former Heavyweight champion
• Jean Pascal, former Light Heavyweight champion
• Bernard Hopkins, former Light Heavyweight champion
• Vic Darchinyan, former Flyweight, Super Flyweight and Bantamweight champion
• Nonito Donaire, former Flyweight champion
• Sergio Gabriel Martínez, former Junior Middleweight champion
• Gennady Golovkin, current Middleweight champion
• Eduard Troyanovsky, former Light Welterweight champion

 

What is the IBO again the last time I heard of the organization it was when Manny won it. If we aren't counting it for Eubank Jr does that mean Manny is really a 7 time world champion. In the interest of being unbias

 

Just sticking to the Eubank formula: if you're not great, be notorious. That strategy made his dad the fortune he's since frittered away...

 

An excellent post and observation. But how many of these fighters talk up their IBO reign? Or did they, I suspect, develop a sudden case of amnesia once they picked up a legit belt or were already in possession of one? The IBO doesn't seem to be taken serious despite that stellar role call of names you have reproduced...

 

i agree.

still stands tho

 

Where's Renold Quinlan ??

 

dunno ask them

 

you are right, i'm thinking of benn surely.

thanks for that. he was never all that, though a freaking hard son of a gun though

 

in truth , precious few were notable for solely IBO work, mainly for work outside ibo.

 

This is a very salient point and i wished you'd never said it as i now have inner conflict as to whether he is a 7 or 8 division champion

 

this is correct

 

Yeah, Benn won the WBC.

I think Benn, Eubank, Watson were tough and excellent boxers but were never really top-tier in their day. Benn came closest when he beat McClellan, but he was at best a clear #2 behind Roy Jones Jr. and was never the same again anyway.
Watson's challenge to McCallum illustrated the gulf in class between the Brit gang and a true top-tier middleweight of the era.