I MUCH prefer vacant championships to multiple ones. They should be hard to win, not participation certificates (No hyperbole there huh?)
There is no prefect answer. But whilst sport is about money there will always be coruption and having a lineal champion 'crowned' by virtue of a judging decision in a fight he clearly hasn't won, negates the 'function of what happens in the ring' part[/QUOTE]

Not in a million years it doesn't. It detracts from it. But it hardly negates it. Boxing is a subjectively judged sport. I don't know what can be done about that. Attempts to make the amateurs more objective have caused more harm than good as far as the pro sport goes.

I agree there is no perfect answer. But it is IMPOSSIBLE for the alphabet gangs to be part of a good one