Let's see how the alphabet organizations stack up, shall we?

[TitoFan]

Lopez holds the WBO title. It's extremely difficult to call him a champion and keep a straight face. Hell I can't do it.

I see this a lot here. And I'm not picking on VD, but it seems the "popular" thing here to pick on the WBO. So I thought I'd do a little comparison and see how the alphabet organizations stack up. Couldn't do every weight division, so I picked some of the ones with the better known fighters, and came up with the following:

HW:
IBF - Wlad
WBA - Valuev (Valuev?!?!?)
WBC - Vitali ("Just got back from my sabbatical")
WBO - Wlad

MW:
IBF - Abraham
WBA - F. Sturm (Sturm?!?!?)
WBC - Pavlik
WBO - Pavlik

WW:
IBF - Clottey
WBA - Mosley
WBC - Berto
WBO - Cotto

Jr WW:
IBF - Urango
WBA - Andreas Kotelnik (who?)
WBC - Tim Bradley (who?)
WBO - K. Holt

FW:
IBF - Cristobal Cruz
WBA - Chris John
WBC - Takahiro Aoh (who?)
WBO - Steve Luevano

Jr FW:
IBF - Caballero
WBA - Ricardo Cordova (who?)
WBC - I. Vazquez
WBO - Juanma

Bantam:
IBF - Joseph Agbeko (who?)
WBA - Anselmo Moreno (double who?)
WBC - Hozumi Hasegama (oh... THAT guy)
WBO - Fernando Montiel

Jr Bantam:
IBF - Vic
WBA - Vic
WBC - Vic
WBO - Jose Lopez (ok, so they got one wrong)

Jr Fly:
IBF - Brian Viloria
WBA - Brahim Asloum (WTF?)
WBC - Edgar Sosa
WBO - Ivan Calderon

So maybe it's just me... but the WBO doesn't look quite like the joke it's made out to be, right?

[Kirkland Laing]

Kendal Holt doesn't have the WBO belt anymore. The "who" guy has it.

[TitoFan]

Kendal Holt doesn't have the WBO belt anymore. The "who" guy has it.

Oops... I stand corrected.



But you see my point.

[Lance Uppercut]

They are all garbage. But if I had to pick the worst offender, it would have to be the WBA, with their absurd "regular" champions.

Although the WBO is almost as bad; they created the WBO interim Junior Middleweight title for Paul Williams in the same month Sergei Dzindziruk was defending the WBO Junior Middleweight title against the WBO's own mandatory. WTF?

[Tins06]

They are probably all just as corrupt as eachother.

I always say the Champ makes the belt these days, dont really matter wich one you got, you know if you deserve to be called a world champ or not,and so do we the boxing fans.

But I'd agree with the WBA being worst of all. it's so obvious the other titles(regular,super champ) are for more money but they just don't seem to care how bad they look.

[Kirkland Laing]

Kendal Holt doesn't have the WBO belt anymore. The "who" guy has it.

Oops... I stand corrected.



But you see my point.

Yes, it's surreal that the WBO actually looks like the most authentic sanctioning body out there.

Actually that should be shitty, not surreal.

[boozeboxer]

Yeah I agree with Lance. Hell I forget that their is a WBA until he brings up another thread on them or I see them announcing the champion in some fight.

[boozeboxer]

I always thought the IBF standings and rules (the 10% shrink rule) was pretty sound.

[SalTheButcher]

Lopez holds the WBO title. It's extremely difficult to call him a champion and keep a straight face. Hell I can't do it.

Jr WW:
IBF - Urango
WBA - Andreas Kotelnik (who?)
WBC - Tim Bradley (who?)
WBO - K. Holt

how u gonna hate on bradley?


also i think the WBO is now bradleys belt as he beat holt


also kotelnik has a belt because frank warren somehow got a belt on gavin rees and was trying to find anyone he thought had the slightest chance of losing to rees

[BoomBoom]

I also like the IBF. Its probably the least corrupt. WBA is garbage now, which is sad because it used to be prestigious.

[ElTerribleMorales]

I also like the IBF. Its probably the least corrupt. WBA is garbage now, which is sad because it used to be prestigious.

IBF is quick to strip anyone of their title so that they can constantly have someone fighting for their strap, and making them a couple bucks every time

[boozeboxer]

I also like the IBF. Its probably the least corrupt. WBA is garbage now, which is sad because it used to be prestigious.

IBF is quick to strip anyone of their title so that they can constantly have someone fighting for their strap, and making them a couple bucks every time

heaven forbid wanting a fighter to fight more than once a year.

[CutMeMick]

I also like the IBF. Its probably the least corrupt. WBA is garbage now, which is sad because it used to be prestigious.

Just as corrupt as the rest, see Zab Judahs career for this one.
They've fed him the IBF strap as many times as possible.

The worst one being after he lost to Baldomir they gave back the strap to Zab because Baldomir didn't want to share a piece of the pie with them.

[Britkid]

I also like the IBF. Its probably the least corrupt. WBA is garbage now, which is sad because it used to be prestigious.

Just as corrupt as the rest, see Zab Judahs career for this one.
They've fed him the IBF strap as many times as possible.

The worst one being after he lost to Baldomir they gave back the strap to Zab because Baldomir didn't want to share a piece of the pie with them.

Well Bob Lee (Former IBF President and Founder) did/is doing time for corruption connected to the organization, so yes they are kind of tainted..

They are all money making machines, with too much power and influence; and history tells us, time and again, what happens when human beings have too much power......

[superheavyrhun]

I think that all of them have their plus and minus points, the problem of giving a title to something as unreliable as a fighter is the main problem....

WBC and IBF seem to have the best reputations, but I think the WBO can safely count itself up there, but the WBA just seems to be losing track completely at the moment. Do you want interim, ordinary, super or champion in recess?