a question for my Saddo friends.

[Fenster]

Why are you classing the WBU as a title?

Hatton beat Kostya for the IBF
Bruno beat McCall for the WBC

Yea Bruno was Warren promoted at the time he beat McCall ,
but although i dont class the WBU as a real world title , i think Warren was peddling Hatton as World champ of the WBU , so im not counting Hatton .

so far we have Bruno.

I don't know ONE proper boxing fan (and doesn't mean hardcore/anorak types like on here) that ever regarded Hatton as WORLD champion because of that WBU crap.

Warren is a promoter. If a poxy WBU belt helps SELL his shows he's gonna use it. Who wouldn't?

[Bomp]

It happens a lot, titles are vacated rather than fight mandatories. Warren obviously has a lot of leverage with the WBO and chose fights which would progress his fighters to no.1, he can't really have foreseen that Collins and Nelson would retire.

Hennesey seems to prefer the WBC route, and Witter and Froch (if he wins) will win vacated titles.

Cotto, Margarito, Jones Jr, Tarver, Hopkins, JMM, Judah are just some high profile boxers who also had first titles which were vacant. (OK, I went on Boxrec and of about 20 or so bigish names I searched just under half were in this vacated group)

[Tysonbruno]

Johnny Nelson is another he beat Carl thompson who was WBO champ in his 3rd defence.