Hi Everyone

I wanted to share my thoughts on this because I feel this is one thing that could ruin boxing in the future. We all know that the governing alphabet bodies are a joke when it comes to ranking fighters, but it makes me fairly angry that when someone becomes #1 contender and a champion vacates that they're 'given' the title rather than be made to fight for a vacant title. Twice this happened at Light-Welter when Ricky vacated titles and we were left with two men who got to call themselves a 'world' champion without actually winning the belt in Souleymane M'Baye & Lovemore N'Dou. Can you imagine if for their first fight if they'd signed a unification fight? Ths will ruin boxing if we have people of such limited ability being able to call themselves 'world' champions when

#1 they didn't win the belt
#2 they couldn't even defend it successfully (I'm not counting a draw as a defence)

Fighters should have to win the world title, it shouldn't be a gift.

Sorry to rant, but N'Dou's recent mouthing off about Hatton just made me think about this again.