This one is slightly complicated so I will refer you to a current situation: Joe Calzaghe currently holds the WBC, WBO & WBA belts. Anthony Mundine also holds a WBA belt. If Mundine fancied a unification belt against Bute, and won, he would be WBA & IBF champion. Would the WBA then give Mundine a 'super championship', and offer the 'standard' belt? Would Joe than become 'super super champion' as well? We could also end up with four champions, if the standard WBA champ made a voluntary defence instead of fighting his mandatory, and the WBA decided to stage an 'interim fight'. What a ****ing joke the WBA are.
i don't really care. they should all just die horrible deaths. calzaghe is the champ. they can call mundine the superchampion of the whole wide universe and it still would not mean ****
Mundine should be stripped of the title. He may be a good boxer but he only fights bums, when he steps up to the next level and fights a good fighter such as Kessler and Sven he loses. The WBA is a joke for giving him a belt.
Now Joe has signed to fight BHop he will be stripped of his 168 titles, so Mundine will be the only WBA beltholder. But with your question, while there is a "Super Champ" and a "Regular Champ", the regular champ can't fight in unification fights. Basically it's a glorified number one ranking.
I read somewhere because Joe is fighting BHop at lightheavy his belts arent on the line and if he wins he can go back down and defend... Like the Pavlik situation if he loses the rematch he is still Middleweight champ because its at a catchweight " Calzaghe promises to stay calm and 'smash' Hopkins [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Welshman could earn $10m from first US bout and vows to learn from Ricky Hatton's mistakes[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] John Rawling Thursday January 24, 2008 The Guardian [/FONT] This content is protected [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]After supporting Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas, Joe Calzaghe vowed to fight in America. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge / Action [/FONT] Joe Calzaghe has said he will learn from the mistakes Ricky Hatton made against Floyd Mayweather when he takes on the American veteran light-heavyweight Bernard Hopkins at the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas on April 19.The undefeated Welshman will fight in the 12st 7lb division for the first time, having established that he is the world's No1 super-middleweight by beating the Dane Mikkel Kessler in his last contest to add the World Boxing Council and Association titles to the World Boxing Organisation crown that has been his since 1997. Article continues This content is protected No title will be at stake except for the belt awarded to Hopkins, 43, by Ring Magazine for being the outstanding fighter in each division and Calzaghe, 35, will not be required to relinquish any of his belts, leaving him the option to defend later this year against Kelly Pavlik or Jermain Taylor, who meet a second time on February 16 in a catchweight contest at 11st 12lb.
Don't forget it was only a couple of months ago that the WBA had three world cruiserweight world champions; Mormeck (Super champion) Virgil Hill (Regular champion) First Arslan (Interim champion) atsch Its hard enough explaining to people who are not boxing fans about all the different boxing champions in each weight division let alone explaining three world champions with the same governing body :think
yeah:think i thought the wba superbelt was only awarded after 5 defences. after that you were suppose to be the legit belt holder in the world which made unification pointless (from there point of view) whats the **** do they think they are doing? it has screwed there reputation completly
