Would you be happy with a single belt per weight division? Poll

No. I love too much the idea of a unification fight. The four sanctioning bodies should only have ONE champion per weight class, though. None of this silver champion BS.

 

Even with one belt you'll still have people like Stevenson never fighting a mandatory.

 

One champion

 

This is the only way it should be.

 

Definitely.

Then we'll see the best contenders facing each other in elimination fights and emerging with realistic records where we know who the best are.

I'm sick of this 20-0 type nonsense without ever facing a top ten opponent.

I'd rather see 18-2 where atkeats half of the opposition are top ten ranked.

 

One belt would be much better.
A title fight would be worth much more than it does now and people would actually have to work hard for their title shots - that means fighting other top fighters to get to that point.
That would be great but it's never gonna happen.

 

Yes definitely. As well as making title fights more meaningful it would make rankings worthwhile and fights between the contenders meaningful. Seeing the number 2 vs 3 in the division fighting for a shot at the title would be a more exciting prospect.

As it is voluntary defences only require you to pick someone in the top 10 or 15, so with 4 orgs you can conceivably have defences against guys who are outside the top 30 in the world. If there was one belt we would see meaningful title fights amongst the top 10 more often.

 

Multiple belts aren't the issue, it's that each org proclaims
their beltholder as "the champ", that's where it gets muddy.
If the belts/belt holders had a specific hierarchy, a lot of this
could be cleared up.......ie WWE (I know, I know kinda goofy example but here me out).
World HW champion.....intercontinental champion.....US champion....World Tv champion
etc......Multiple title holders, but it's understood, one person is the champion.