I like the fact that the IBO Middleweight Champion, Daniel Geale, is ranked as no. 21 by the IBO themselves. At least that's not particularly pretentious...
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Im agreeing with you completely, the version of the belt is nothing more than a farce and had boxing any credibility that wasnt sucked out of it through don king and his henchmen it would scrap all versions of your ibo, ibf, wbu championships and go back to the old traditional system whereby a champion was really a champion.
People didnt book up hatton-castillo on ppv because the IBO championship was at stake, people ordered it because they recognised it was to decide who was the number 1 light welterweight in the world.
Should that mean hattons IBO title made his involvement in the fight null and void substituting him for junior witter just because junior had a more respected belt??
of course not..most knowlegable boxing fans are able to decide for themselves what fights are worthy of big viewing figures etc through how good the athletes competing are and not what organisations title they hold!!
What about the the IBA and the WBU? :rolleyes:
What kind of belt are these guys holding?..
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I think when the sanctioning fees are paid the IBO title is like a side of fries.
"Would you like an IBO with that?"
WBC! mang lolz
WBC Fedalatin title is first WBC fecarbox second then you got Oklahoma state champion. Those are the big 3 to me.....In all seriousness I think IBF is pretty consistent with their rankings, sometimes they will throw a weird mandatory, but they are usually guys that deserve it, but just aren't known as much.
The Ring championship is the only championship worth recognizing!