Current WBA middleweight rankings

Super Champ-Sturm
World Champ-Golovkin
Interim Champ-N'Jikam

1. AVTANDIL KHURTSIDZE GEO
2. SEBASTIAN ZBIK GER
3. MATTHEW MACKLIN U.K
4. ANDY LEE (NABA) IRE
5. MARTIN MURRAY (WBA I/C) U.K
6. FERNANDO GUERRERO D.R.
7. DARREN BARKER U.K.
8. MATT KOROBOV RUS
9. KASSIM OUMA UGA
10. JULIEN MARIE SAINTE FRA

Current WBC Middleweight Rankings

Diamond belt Champ-Sergio Martinez
Champion-Julio Cesar Chavez jr

Marco Antonio Rubio (Mexico)
Sebastian Zbik (Germany)
Darren Barker (GB) BBB C/EBU
David Lemieux (Canada) INTL
Dionisio Miranda (Colombia) AMERICA
Peter Manfredo Jr. (US)
Andy Lee (Ireland) NABF
Billi Facundo Godoy (Argentina)
Koji Sato (Japan) OPBF
Domenico Spada (Italy)
David Medina (US)
Jorge Sebastian Heiland (Argentina)
Nobuhiro Ishida (Japan)
Osumanu Adama (Ghana)
Grzegorz Proksa (Poland)

IBF Middleweight Rankings
Champ-Daniel Gaele

Sebastian Sylvester Germany
Anthony Mundine Australia
Cory Spinks United States
Darren Barker United Kingdom
Peter Manfredo, Jr United States
Roman Karmazin Russian Federation
Benjamin Simon Germany
Sam Soliman Australia
Osumanu Adama United States
Noe Gonzalez Uruguay

WBO Middleweight Rankings

Champ-Dmitry Pirog

1 Gennady Martirosyan ARM
2 Andy Lee IRE
3 Maksym Bursak (Int-Cont) UKR
4 Mathew Macklin GB
5 Fernando Guerrero DR
6 Marco Antonio Rubio MEX
7 Daniel Jacobs USA
8 Darren Barker GB
9 Nobuhiro Ishida JPN
10 Sebastian Sylvester GER

Now as near as I can figure this means we currently have SEVEN men who can claim to be middleweight champion. Hell we only had seven middleweight champions in the two decades between 1968 and 1987! No WONDER the casual fan can't figure out what's what and throws up there hands.

We also have over THIRTY middleweights who can claim to be ranked by one or another of these joke organizations. Think about that next time you grow concerned about a fighter needing to make a "mandatory" defense.

These organizations are utter frauds, there belts are promotional tools, not signs of accomplishment and they should never be referred to except as sources of material for humor or ridicule.