Why Are People So Hung Up On The British,european,commonwealth Route?

It's an old-fashioned progression perhaps, but I like it a lot. It's not like you have to spend years fighting over them either.

But I do like it, both as a kind of progression of a fighter's status and also to move them up the rungs smoothly rather than leaping up to Euro and World belts from the start. Some guys can do it, others would be better off with the progression.

To this day, I'm disappointed Frank Bruno never considered the British HW title worthy of his time. Almost all the other British HW contenders and champs over the years have but he and Duff wasn't interested.

 

Bruno not fighting for the British title was because Lawless trained most of the other HWs for eligible for that title. There was no point in Bruno winning it and stopping Lawless' other fighters, who were clearly inferior to Bruno, from earning money from the title.

 

bruno couldnt beat mason who was british champ at the time. but had a much better career than mason.

 

first off the titles are open to mandatorys, which means you should fight decent level oppasition, and do not step back.

 

or there are the dodgy regional titles, like the wbo nabo, which a suprising number of top boxers have fought for, e.g. margarito, JMM, luevano.

 

I think the easiest way to get title shots is to go for the interalphabetty route - after all you are paying them a sanctioning fee for a pointless trinket.

However - they will pretty much sanction anyone without AIDS for an interalphabetty fight, at least the regional commissions such as the BBBoC and EBU vet fighters and rank them accordingly.

I would imagine most fighters would feel very proud of becoming a national champion as well, much more so than becoming an inter-continental champion (whatever the **** that means).

 

yeh the wbc and wba generally rank eurp champs in the top 10.

 

The EBU champ normally gets a number 1 ranking with the WBC.

 

any british fighter worth his salt would want to fight for the british title,just to show and know in his mind he is the best britain has to offer at his weight,and also defend it to win the lonsdale belt outright
then he can go on to win euro belt and world title,if he is good enough,if he aint then he can still be the best at domestic level
You get people like khan skiping it,and getting sparked when he has won fook all,and to be honest most true boxing fans want to see who is the best in britain,thats one if the reasons khan was disliked so much

 

Colin Jones went down the British Commonwealth European - cleaning them all up.

He werent able duck fighters behind a mickey mouse paper title.

He had to take each step up the ladder.

The sport is different today

As being World Champion has been cheaped tenfold by all the paper titles

It dont mean much anymore - cos fighters dont compete for the traditonal belts

Just go for a paper World title - and then you can say you champ of the world

 

I fully agree.

 

Yeah but being the british champ does NOT make you the best in Britain.

Example , whoever the light welter British camp is (lynes I think) is not better than Witter, Hatton etc Same with Euro

im not saying lynes for instance is better than hatton,but hatton has passed british level,has proved himself.
im talking domestic level before you go on to world level,to be british champ should mean the world to him,being better than british domestic fighters,not british world title holders who have passed(most of them)domestic level,hope this makes sense:huh