Tired of The Ring Belt

Incorrect. Money & power are the reasons Champs aren't ranked by other organizations.

If I am the WBC president, and you are my champion, then I dictate who you must defend against, and I charge you money for making that defense. I don't need the IBF, WBO, WBA president trying to control who my cash cow fights, let alone take a piece of the money.

What makes you say sanctioning bodies encourage unification?

 

If your favourite fighter is the Ring champ then he has probably got a good claim at being considered the best division but dont act like he is a proper world champion if that is the only title he has.

The Ring is a magazine and a good guide for fans in the murky world of alphabet soup titles but it is not a sanctioning body

 

WTF???:huh

I agree. That's a good argument for getting rid of the sanctioning bodies. They make it almost impossible to declare a Champ.

 

also, WTF is a Super Champ? Isn't Champ enough?

Answer:

Super Champ is a way to make more money on sanctioning fees. As president, now I can charge a sanctioning fee for the "normal" Champ as well as the "Super" Champ.

 

I am not necessarily arguing that the Ring should be the end all be all. I agree that it has flaws as well. I think ideally there would be a unified and unbiased organization responsible for this. Something that does not make money off sanctioning fees, which is the biggest negative for the orgs.

the Ring is a step in the right direction, but it's not really the answer.

 

Good points.

Yeah, there is a certain flaw in that if the belt is vacant and 1 never fights 2 or even 3, the belt will be vacant. And can remain vacant for years.

Maybe they need to make up some rule about this stuff.

 

esb rankings is the best

 

there was me thinking it was a way to make more money be creating ordinary and interm champs

 

Thanks BigReg. Good insight. :good

Sometimes we do forget that the Ring Belt, as Lance Uppercut put it, is nothing less and nothing more than an award by a magazine who is in the business of selling magazines.

FFS they only have 6 champs, 3 of which are not currently fighting in the division they reign over? atsch

 

So where's the next billionaire to start a new organization that makes boxing great again? Sort of like how the iPod came out when the world didn't think it needed yet another portable music player. I just feel that as weak as the current orgs are, a new one could conceivably come along and say and do the right things by the fans and create a new boxing world order.

 

I've never paid attention to the Ring Championships for the simple fact that it's a magazine. The champions, the rankings, and the P4P rankings are all based on opinion. P4P rankings kind of seem like a popularity contest more than anything sometimes and the fact that you can hang on to your "belt" without defending it or defending it against weak opposition gives it little credibility. I don't think we should give a magazine authority over anything in life to begin with.