Don't tell us we will have another sanctioning body to go with the other four?? lolol...

The IBO belt is on the line for Joshua v Miller as well. lolol.....

They have done a sneaky and annoying way of promoting the org and their "belts" too, because they gladly (or perhaps without choice) sanction their belts and champions to co-defend with any other belt from the other four organisations at the time- wbo, wbc, wba, ibf. So you HAVE to hear about the ibo at some time. lololol....

A lot different than how the WBO came into our consciousness- sure folks know he Mercer's and Morrison's and Damiani's of this world were the first champs at HW. But no one really cared about the WBO for YEARS afterwards, even as Benntt stopped Morrison for it and Herbie Hide held it for a while and Bowe beat him for it. No one really cared up until Bowe decided to fight Hide for it... an Bowe rubbished that belt in order to fight Holyfield for a 3rd time. In fact, I barely even remember Hide's first title reign as WBO HW Champ.

But Hide's second reignt brought in Vitali, Byrd and Wladimir and it was Wladimir who REALLY brought the WBO into some form of prominence and out of obscurity. For all intents and purposes. People were sill calling ht WBO a fake org up to the mid 2000's.

The IBF was a little different, however. once The legit and recognized lineal champion decided to fight for the IBF strap- in that of Larry Holmes- it was automatically elevated to top tier status because the HW Champ undefeated and lineal champ decided to wear the strap and fight for the IBF.

But God knows what the end game is for the IBO?!?!

We know the WBA has been historically corrupted by the Mafia and Don King, hence the split between their forerunner NBA and to the WBC ran out of another country outside of the influence of the mob, but in the hands of another mob.

Since Don King held the heavyweight champion at the time, Muhammad Ali, you had no where to run from his influence but the crowd of mobsters was getting thicker and the FEDS were really digging into the corruption of the WBA and King was at the centre of most of the fight-fixing and manipulation and had a clear advantage over the other promoters.

Then King with Robert Lee hatched another plan, they decided to create the IBF- one of the highest fee sanctioning bodies, along with the lowest grossing per purse out of the four bodies- and King and Lee got into major trouble with the law with regard to rankings fixing and racketeering- It's all there.

King promoted fighters always rated high in the IBF- and no one knows why?!? But Lee became his own man even though King had him in the pocket- King discounted how greedy the Lee's- Sr. and Jr.- were and are. lolol....

Then Arum during the mid to late 80's endorsed the WBO project which took a while- as said- to get off the ground properly. The WBO was stated to have been started because there was too much corruption in the other organisations.

But it is suspiciously noted that the WBO to this day had and still has a disproportionate amount of Bob Arum fighters as champions and ranked contenders.

So what King did with the IBF Arum did with the WBO.

The WBC to me- probably due to the language barrier- is the only organisation that does not seem to have overt corruption and fight fixing at the core. No wonder why most fighters enjoy the WBC for what it is worth. They also have the smaller sanctioning fees and higher purses.