Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
Personally I'm glad that Ricky is choosing to honour his new belt obligations.

I don't understand some of you posters. In order for world titles to not be completely meaningless champions need to honour and respect them.

If a champion has a mandatory fight, then he should respect that and fight that fight.

Hatton can still fight Castillo in November.
Why should the fighters honor and respect the belts? The commissions have no respect for the belts. If they did have respect, they wouldn't name #1 contenders based on which promoter pays them the most money under the table.

Belts stopped meaning anything years ago. The only belts/rankings that mean anything are the Ring ones.