Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
Yeah I read this last night, good article and he does make some very valid points.

My counter argument would be though in place of 4 or 5 meaningless world title belts why not have one world title belt in each division but a host of meaningful other belts.

I mean if it actually meant a great deal to be the Americas champ or the Asian champ etc then they could serve in place of world title belts.

Ultimately though it's too far gone now and nothing could ever change so best leave it the way it is.
I don't really like your system.The American,etc champs would just be the WBO America's champ or the WBC asian champ,same thing no?I though he brought up LOTS of legitimate points,really good writing.
Well like I say my system would never work because those titles exist now and are largely meaningless. For it to have worked the continental and international titles would have had to have had real significance attached to them from the beginning.

So I agree nobody will ever care about be the Pan Asian Champ or anything but if those titles were seen as important then you could get by with only one world title per weight class.

I mean for example imagine if the title of Mexican champ or South American champ was actually seen as a really high honour than you could have had some great Mexican rivalries or South American rivalries etc. If being European champ was a huge honour we could have some great European rivalries.

Unfortunately these titles don't mean a think in real terms and never will so it wouldn't work. I was just lamenting what might have been had things been set up properly in the beginning.