Brilliant deduction , WBO has been a joke from day 1
Brilliant deduction , WBO has been a joke from day 1
Wise words from Bob Arum, 'To dismiss the WBO as a joke means the others aren't' They're all next to useless, and are only there for what they can cream off the sport.
I've never forgiven Ring Magazine for the debacle that was the United States Boxing Championships back in 1977. I've never bought the Magazine because of that farce.
The ring is the only one i pay attention to anymore
Last edited by Lance Uppercut; 11-15-2008 at 01:00 PM.
Because whether it was a good judging decision or not.... Casamayor won the fight against Santa Cruz.
The Ring bases it belts on the linear championship and they respect the official decisions of the judges. That's why the Ring belts have credibility, because there is a defined list of rules on how their belts are handed out. Sanctioning bodies change the rules whenever they feel like it, the Ring doesn't.
Exactly...That is why the title is so credible...it is not one that can be stripped, taken away due to BS politics..no mandatories,,,no sanctioning fees, or anything else that goes with it....
To be the champ you have to beat the champ...Bad decisions go on everyday....every organization....you can have munipulated rankings but the champion will always stay legit.....If we went on going by stuff like.."I thought so and so won the fight so IMO he is champ"...then guess what?....You just had the mindset of every bullshit ABC organization out there......
Bernard Hopkins said once after winning he Ring LHW title from Tarver and defending it against Wright....
"I think this is the greatest title there is...Better then any sanctioning title...I value this more then my middleweight crown I held for over a decade...This shows I am the champion and the next person to be champion will be the man who beats me...We will not have to pay a sanctioning fee..we will not have to fight when and where they want us to...we will just fight to see who the best man is and that man will be the champion when the fight is over and done with...Everyone can have the other titles but fact is all they are doing is holding belts...I can buy a belt at the store...I can not buy being the champion"
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No way were ring gonna call santa cruz the world champ even though he beat the supposed champion.
Boxing suffers from too many dodgy decisions and ring base their ratings on these dodgy decisions ? They should rank a fighter on how good they are not who their promoter is
Because the Ring has set of rules to follow, and even though the judges blew that fight, the Ring still had to follow and abide by that decision, crap or not. Had Santa Cruz not gotten screwed THE FUCKING JUDGES NOT RING MAG, he would have been Ring Champ. It's that simple. The judges fucked up, not the ring. The belts don't matter. Sucks for Campbell, but that's the way it it. The ring needs to play by it's own rules.
The problem with what your saying is if the ring judged on what you have just said ie what ever they felt over the actual result then they would be the same as the others and they could put who they liked as champ regardless of who actually wins
No system is perfect but fighters and fight fans alike respect the ring as the most honourable and non biased assocation out there
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