What would you do if a WBU title belt was for sale at a charity auction?

Whether I like the amount of Alphabet titles or not they are here to stay. Ricky Hatton's WBU title, as lightly regarded as it is, is an essential part of his history. If I was a Hatton fan, I'd be tempted to buy it.

 

you could probably fight for it without to much bother

 

walk out

 

Unfortunatly for the fight fans these belts are here to stay because they make money for the fighters and promoters it is as simple as that...

The Boxing Boards of control and different sanctioning bodies are not fussed about what belt it is... as long as it is making the interested parties more money.....

The era of 8 weights and 8 champs is a distant memory....

What I find disapointing from it all is that there are so mant domestic contests that slip away from us because it is an easier route to go for another alphabet title as opposed to going throught the British, Commonwealth and European routes before taking on a World Title Challenge......:-(

 

I might buy it to wipe my arse with, i could spare £1.50 for it.

 

I would buy it then do a big **** on it on stage then throw it at whoevers it originally was while saying 'that is what you did to boxing by fighting for this belt'.

 

It has defo damaged our domestic scene taking away soem potentailly great contests... but Ricky Hatton's bank balance on the strength of that belt would have a strong arguement that it aint done him any harm...:bbb

 

Yep alot of fighters go for money over pride. The WBU belt has helped ruin boxing and the fighters who fought for it are to blame.

 

I'd buy it if I had enough money. People on here are very hypocritical sometimes. Yes its a poor belt, Yes it shouldn't have been established but FFS if anyone on this forum had have had the chance to fight for it there sure as hell would do. People on here find it so easy to ridicule other fighters and such but such belts as the IBO/WBU provide lads who've grafted all their lifes and probably wouldn't make a career out of boxing to be able to make a name for themsleves and bring some deserved money in to.

I'd buy it and i've have been proud as punch if I'd have won it !

 

If you are crap at football, you pay your weekly subs and play with the hangover. If you are half decent, you get £20 boot money and free petrol.

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Well there is total diffrent levels of how good someone is, just like football.......should we say someone who plays in League 2 shouldn't be proud of winning the JPT or the League 2 championship, just because it is a lesser title to the Prem ??

If you are fighting for a WBU belt, chances are you are a pretty decent boxer, just not on the real world class level..... if you are a crap boxer, you'd be probably getting paid £50 for getting beaten up by up and comers

 

I'd like to hope none of us would attend or we would spit on it or we would not cheer etc etc I'd hope we'd all make a stand.

The belt is worthless.

 

I'd pay for it, for sure.

 

The difference is that its a con. It claims to be a world title, it claims to be as prestigious as the real belts. And people an promoters then claim to be world champs, when in fact they are not.