Will the Heavyweight title ever be unified?

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  1. Dostoevsky

    Dostoevsky Hardcore......to the max! Full Member

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    I don't care who does it, I just want it done.

    None of the titles look close to being unified, Will we ever see them joined together by a fighter to make an undisputed champion?

    because I ****ing hope so....:twisted:
    Its pisssing me of how indecisive some of these fighters are and how cowardly they are not wanting to fight one another......someone should get it fixed:fire
     
  2. brooklyn1550

    brooklyn1550 Roberto Duran Full Member

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    Chagaev/Ibragimov - WBO and WBA
     
  3. Dostoevsky

    Dostoevsky Hardcore......to the max! Full Member

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    Well, ideally I am concerned about all the divisions having a unified champions but slighlty moreso about the heavyweights for a few reasons.

    Heavyweight is the glamour division, the casual public pay more interest into heavyweights than lower fighters, if we had a recognizable heavyweight champion that people know the name of, then public interest will start to trickle more and more to the lower weight classes and interest in lower weight classes will be even bigger!

    Boxing will then grow more popular all around. To have a healthy boxing scene and a healthy boxing interest there needs to be a well known heavyweight champion.
     
  4. Heavyrighthand

    Heavyrighthand Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Correct.

    We now are about to see the first unification fight in eight long years, and I think once this fight is over, the boxing fans, commentators, and boxing writers, all will push to to get the titles unified further, in order to get the sports flagship division back in its feet.

    The upcoming fight is the first step, and the second step would be that the Chag Ibrag winner is willing to fight another titleholder.
     
  5. brimey

    brimey Member Full Member

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    Yeah I agree but does it really matter? Lets say Wlad unifies all the titles by the endof next year. How long will it take for the abc gangs to tear them back apart? In the end unification seems pretty futile and that is what is so frustrating.
     
  6. Heavyrighthand

    Heavyrighthand Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As has been said, once a true champion is determined, it won't matter how quickly they start stripping him, cause we'll then have our man, so to speak.

    Him having the physical belts in his possession is really not at all important. The only important thing is for one man to win them all, and prove that he's the best in the division, then they can take the belts away as they please, cause after we have gotten a single champion, the actual belts, themselves, will be even less important than they are, now.

    Once someone has won them all, and say, the WBA strips him for not meeting their mandatory cause he was off meeting the WBC mandatory...then say the WBC has an eliminator and McCline wins their title. The fans and commentators won't really acknowledge that McCline is a champion, cause the WBC title was won by the true unified champion, and the clout and prestige of that title remains with him, even though McCline has now gotten their physical belt in his possession.