Is Anyone Going To Be the Undisputed Champ ???

[superheavyrhun]

The problem for getting to be undisputed champ for me is all the bulls**t that promoters and governing bodies are pulling more and more often these days.

Promoters are getting an ever-increasing influence on their fighters' careers, and instead of the fighter telling the promoter who he wants to fight and challenge, it is often the other way around.

The governing bodies is where it gets difficult to be unified champion, cause none of them are willing to recognise the other champions, thus they'll be telling fighters they have to fight mandatories in the next two fights....and when you have four mandatories to fight....you'll never get the huge fights once you've unified.
That's my other gripe, is that people who don't deserve to be mandatories get the slot, just so that the different bodies each have a different mandatory, instead of the best fighter in that division being the #1 in each mandatory list.

Your not wrong..I think hatton would have unified by now if it werent for mandatory bs..!

Exactly...the thing is, most promoters are happy to put their fighters through meaningless mandatories like Hatton v Lovemore N'Dou to hang on to the belt, cause they're milking the money that fighter can make in the long term. Sadly....we may never see anyone dominate a division like Roy Jones Jr, or your boy Bernard Hopkins did back in the day.

So Superheavy ... you gonna put your neck on the line for a prediction?

Hmmmm, you don't half make it difficult do you? I reckon the heavyweights and larger weights are not so likely to get unified, because there are quite a few contenders in each division, except perhaps the Cruiserweights, but my tip for the next fighter to dominate a division and unify would have to be in the light divisions, but maybe not the ultra-light divisions, cause there are every now and again big shocks there more often than in slightly heavier divisions. I reckon the new unified champ will appear between Super Flyweight and Featherweight. Higher than that and the promoters are likely to prevent it happening to protect their fighters.

I reckon the most likely of fighters at the moment would be Rafael Marquez and Daniel Ponce de Leon, but I still reckon the next unified champ will have to be young, ambitious, and willing to bully his promoter a bit.