Is Linear Championship as prestigious than the alphabets?

[miron_lang]

He's gotta get past Marquez 1st... one step at a time.

you're right JMM is a very dangerous fighter i got carried away

History is littered with bad decisions, some involving the greatest fighters ever. The only way to keep consistency is to go with the W. We may not like it or agree with it but that is how it will be seen by history

I agree

[Doot]

To be linear champ is to unify all the alphabet titles until you do that I see you as only a titleholder or contender.
Or you can beat the man who has unified the belts.
thats how I see it anyway.

[RozzySean]

To be linear champ is to unify all the alphabet titles until you do that I see you as only a titleholder or contender.
Or you can beat the man who has unified the belts.
thats how I see it anyway.

No, not exactly. You can trace a lineage to champions back to the time before boxing got broken up into a million sanctioning bodies. BUT - if a lineal champ retires or vacates without being beaten - aka Lewis - the lineage ends and can only be renewed by unifying. In some divisions, where there was never a single champ, like SMW, the lineage doesn't get created until unification occurs, ie, Calzaghe just became the first to unify SMW. He became the ring champ and he has established a lineage. Now that lineage might die, unless he comes back down to 168 after the Hopkins fight.

[Galaxy]

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Originally Posted by bzkfn
It is...but in the lightweight division, there is only one champion in my eyes. Casamayor clearly lost to Santa Cruz, David Diaz clearly lost to Morales. So Campbell is the only one I can respect as champion.

But Casamayor got the decision so remained champion, if you want to got against that then you have to do the same to all the other bad decisions throughout history. Going by what the record book says is the only logical way. You may respect Campbell as the best fighter in the division but he is not the champion... you have to beat the man to be the man!

[Galaxy]

To be linear champ is to unify all the alphabet titles until you do that I see you as only a titleholder or contender.
Or you can beat the man who has unified the belts.
thats how I see it anyway.

No, not exactly. You can trace a lineage to champions back to the time before boxing got broken up into a million sanctioning bodies. BUT - if a lineal champ retires or vacates without being beaten - aka Lewis - the lineage ends and can only be renewed by unifying. In some divisions, where there was never a single champ, like SMW, the lineage doesn't get created until unification occurs, ie, Calzaghe just became the first to unify SMW. He became the ring champ and he has established a lineage. Now that lineage might die, unless he comes back down to 168 after the Hopkins fight.

The Ring championship policy:

Championship vacancies can be filled by winning a box-off between The Ring’s number-one and number-two contenders, or, in certain instances, a box-off between our number-one and number-three contenders.

Calzaghe became champion by fighting Lacy. Casamayor's lineage can be traced back to Castillo & Lazcano fighting for the vacant title when Mayweather moved up.

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