Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
People complain about the belts being worthless and that very well may be the case, but if fighters actually respected them a bit more then maybe they would be worth more.
Can you elaborate on this a little bit? What do the fighters need to do to show more "respect" to the belts?
Well defending them would be a good place to start.

If the top fighters defended their belts and held onto them, then there would be no 'paper' champs and the belts would mean more than they do now.

I'm not against people ignoring the belts to go after the big fights, but Hatton just takes the piss. He's won 4 world title belts now and made a grand total of 0 defenses.

To use an analagy, imagine working for a top company and your boss retires and recommends you personally to take over from him. Then at the last minute someone from completely outside the company lands the job, accepts it but then decides not to turn up on the day he's supposed to start, thus leaving the company to scramble over who is going to replace him.

Now imagine that same guy applying for 4 top company jobs, each time ousting the guy who has been personally recommended for the job, and each time deciding not to take the job after all.

The company and the guy who was recommended would get pretty pissed off after a while.