Quote Originally Posted by marbleheadmaui View Post
You haven't addressed the heavyweight lack of fights issue. No surprise, there is no way to refute it. Data is data.

In the last five years I'll name some fights that were logical and didn't happen:
Floyd-Cotto
Floyd-Margarito
Floyd-Clottey
BHOP-Erdai
Pavlik-Abraham
Pavlik-Sturm
Abraham-Sturm
Williams-Cotto
Williams-Sahne
Williams-Floyd
Hatton-Witter
Witter-Malignaggi
Casamyor-Baby Bull
Casamyor-Campbell
Diaz-Diaz
Chris John-Guererro
John-in-Jin Chi
In jin Chi-Guererro
Donaire-Naito
Donaire-Wonjonkam
Narvaez-Wonjonkam
Narvaez-Donaire

I'm getting bored of doing this. I can find another 25, but this will have to do.

I'm out again, thanks as always for your thoughts.
That is just a list of fights that never happened. None of those fights were prevented from taking place by the alphabet organisations.

Also, and I love this, every single fight you listed were between alphabet belt holders! So you reject the idea of the alphabets yet accept that their champions are the best fighters and must fight each other.

Bizarre, clearly the belts do a great job of identifying the top fighters in a weight class as without a single exception you made your list from their list of champions.

As I have said from the beginning, far from preventing fights the alphabets promote them by identifying the top fighters in a weight class and giving them the necessary bargaining tool to tempt the other man into the ring.

Unwittingly your own list just confirms this. There wasn't a single overlooked non champion in your list. The belts work.