when did Calzaghe become undisputed SMW champ

When he beat Kessler in november 07

 

Always has been.

Fighters make belts :yep

 

I believe after he beat Kessler he was undisputed. Having won the IBF, WBO, WBC, and WBA. Took him long enough.

 

okay i miss read the thread, undisputed means 3 belts or more out of wbc, wba, ibf and wbo. however, after he beat lacy i believe he was no.1 and the best at 168 after lacy. plus the ring recognised him as no.1 after that fight.

 

Officially, never. He was stripped of the IBF belt before the Kessler fight.

Unofficially, after Kessler. It was after this fight, and ONLY after this fight, that he had now held ALL the belts - and had no more real challengers at SMW at that time.

 

No it doesn't. Traditionally, it was holding ALL 3 of the recognized belts (WBC, WBA, IBF)... The WBO has never been a requisite, altough now that it has garnered a LITTLE more credibility, a true undisputed champion is likely to go after the WBO title too (provided the WBO champ is not a nobody, and has a legitimate claim to the throne).

Unifying the WBC, WBA and WBO belts merely makes you a UNIFIED champ.

As Calzaghe beat Lacy for the IBF and got stripped for fighting Manfredo, its ARGUABLE that Cal is the unofficial undisputed champ after Kess... Although he probably deserved to get stripped for fighting an ex-light-middleweight "contender"

So never, officially.

 

When he beat Mitchell who had just been robbed by Ottke.

 

Beyer still held the WBC strap...

 

It doesn't matter if he was stripped if he never lost it in the ring. :deal

 

so ok, there are like loads of varied definitions of the term undisputed.

what is the actual definition?

 

Officially it does.

He never held the WBC, WBA and IBF belts together. THIS, hate to say it, is a requisite for an undisputed champion.

How many times, however, have we heard Buffer say - "the unofficial, universally recognized undisputed champion"

Calzaghe fits into that group.

 

Don't go by what Buffer says.

He introduced Hopkins as the "linear" champion at 175 in his last fight. :rofl

 

i remember being confused by the 'undisputed' tag for the calzaghe v kessler fight....when lucian bute was the current ibf champ...

can you be undisputed champ in a weight while there is a different ibf champ also ??