Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
I definitely agree. Oscar is no better than Don King or Bob Arum and will probably smear boxing further.

In any other sport it would be seen as corruption for a promoter to buy the most prestigious magazine who claims to have the most meaningful belt and to then sign a mega money contract with that sport's premier broadcasting network and then to hire lapdogs like Kellerman to attempt to legitimatise the Ring belt above all others at every opportunity.

I'm sick of hearing Buffer announce fights as being for the Ring championship and Kellerman pushing that belt like its the only title that counts.

What true boxing fan could be against The Ring?

Do you disagree with its rankings?

Do think that titles should be stripped and passed from one champion to another with out fighting?

Do you like having 4 champions in every division?


The Ring isn’t doing anything new, they are just trying to go back about 30 years before the proliferation of the alphabet gangs where a champion was champion until he lost. Then the guy who beat him was champion. This WAS boxing for over a hundred years.

It was simple system with no room for interpretation, and boxing benefited.