1. Four belts per weightclass (not counting Ring and Lineal) means holding one belt is equivalent to being 25% champion. 2. Because there are four/more champions per weightclass, odds are at least one of them sucks. 3. Just because you've beaten a champion in 3, 4, 5, 6, howeverthe****many weightclasses...that does not mean you have beaten many good fighters, if any. 4. To top things off, there is a ridiculous number of weight classes nowadays. A fighter who won titles from lightweight to middleweight in the 1920s or so to become a 3 division world champion would now have titles from 135,140,147,154, and160, becoming a 6 division world champion. If you include the possibility of belts at 130 and 168 as well, that original 3 division world champion is now an EIGHT division world champion.... I am by no means a nuthugger for the old fighters (in fact, I think fighters pre-1960 are highly overrated), but at the very least they had to fight the man in their division to become the champion of that division. Winning belts in 7, even 10 weightclasses means nothing to me if you cherrypicked 7 or 10 weak champions to win belts, then vacated them before you had to make a defense against a legit contender.
Great post. In the end, it's all about your quality of Opposition. Who you beat and how you beat them.
