Quote Originally Posted by lance Uppercut
1- they're alpabet gangs. Dont ever take them seriously.
2- the way to get higly ranked by an alphabet gang is to pay them sanctioning fees/bribes. Good fighters dont need the alphabet backings to get big fights so they ignor them, thus leaving the sactioned fights for rankings, open to the middle tier fighters who still need recognition.
But that doesn't make any sense. If a fighter is going to fight for a title he has to pay the sanctioning fees that go along with the title he's fighting for, right? For example: If Valuev fought Peter and the title was on the line, wouldn't Peter have to go through the same crap and pay sanctioning fees for the fight? If the fees weren't paid, I don't think the sanctioning body would sanction the fight.