Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMick

You think the WBO is a joke? Well your right but why single out the WBO only and not share the wealth with the rest.
I was going thru some rankings myself and found some pretty damn intersting things to say the least.

- I just realized that the WBA has Haye, Arslan & Hill as Cruiserweight Champs. WTF? Super, World & Interim anything else they'd like to add? I don't know may be a WBA champ for each country

- By the time Peter & Oleg meet it would have tooken Peter 2 years to solve this whole Interim deal with Oleg.

- Alexander Dimitrenko has been the WBO Inter-Cont. champ since 2005 why didn't he ever fight for the WBO World title as that title is a step below to the world title?

- How does Tito Mendoza who's ranked #13 by the WBO get a shot at Erdei? When theirs fighters like Briggs, Garay or Diaconu available to fight
and are ranked higher then Mendoza?
To be fair Hill and Arslan are fighting for the (regular) WBA title now. And as much as the names are a joke, I dont mind that there are special rules for fighters who unifies. If everybody were enforcing their policy on mandatories like the IBF, unification would be even less possible than today.

Also, if you forget the names, then it is not too bad: Haye is WBA#1, Hill is WBA #2 (forgetting for a minute that Hill actually lost his last fight) and Arslan is WBA#3. They won those rankings in the ring, thereby making the top end of the rankings rather transparent. At least compared to the WBO rankings where people are just drawn out of a hat.

As for the WBO Intercontinental title, it is a joke (just like the other Intercontinental titles).

As for Erdei-Mendoza, well if fighters are in the top15, they are eligible for a volunatry defence. Nothing suspicious about that one.