Just something to read if you are bored.

[Majesty]

Many people try to point to the UFC as having the formula by having one belt per division.

But what they fail to realize is that UFC is not MMA as a whole, there are many different MMA organizations and if you think about it they have many belts(MMA as a whole)

What we call alphabet Belts in boxing, could be called Organization belts in MMA.

There is a UFC Champion
There is a Strikeforce Champion
There is a DREAM Champion
There is a WEC Champion

Having these multiple Belts is actually a good thing for boxing because if you have one belt per division that's going to make TV contracts difficult, some boxers on HBO will never appear on Showtime and vice versa you'd be having to change contracts per every title defense and if the belt changes hands changing those contracts around too back and forth and back and forth, in the world of contracts its not good for business and if you followed the format one belt one champion and doing it per TV deal you aren't a far cry from having titles named after the TV stations themselves, Could you Imagine a heavyweight being called the "HBO Heavyweight Champion" or the "Showtime heavyweight champion" of the world?

Yes wouldn't want to hurt the TV contracts

HBO has a majority of title fights in the US and SKY has the majority of title fights in the UK.
The only exception is really the Super Six, what other title fights has Showtime had recently?

I'll give you some time to search boxrec for your answer.

Way to miss the point of my post completely.

Anyway how can you say 'with the exception of the Super Six what has Showtime had lately?"

Showtime has been having championship fights in the Super Middleweight tournament because to be honest, the Super Six is pretty much gonna be their one major tournament for a while, it's what's gonna take up their Showtime Championship Boxing Schedule for quite a while. So I don't get what you're getting at, you can't really use the Super Six as a way to try to bash Showtime for lack of recent championship fights when that Super Six is basically gonna eb their major thing till it ends. Not to mention that Showtime also has Strikeforce on their Network so they can't commit to just boxing events anymore. The Super Six is tournament is a great way to settle rivalries and 'belts' in a division and make one major champion out of it. The only champion that isn't in it, is Lucien Bute, who is fighting the likes of Edison Miranda on HBO because every other Super Middleweight that really would be a threat is in that Showtime tournament. Showtime is doing what should be done about multiple belts in a division, hold a tournament so that you can have one major champion.

My point I was trying to make was that peopel point to the UFC for having the formula for one champ per division, but went on to explain UFC isnt MMA as a whole, and that in every MMA organization there is a belt for seperate weight classes. So what I'm saying is MMA has alphabet belts as boxing has, the events are just hosted by the organization that also makes them. That was the point I was trying to make.

Now back to one belt per a division.

If there was one belt per division which is the problem I'm addressing and why the multiple belts is actually good for boxing.

With one belt it would make everything a huge cluster to be honest and would get old faster then this multiple belt thing.

You have 4 champions per division right?
The WBA, WBC, the IBF, and the WBO

Each has a set of rankings of who fights who, there are different people ranked differently in each division and some get shots at certain titles. Who is to say the WBC ranked number 1 is better then the WBA ranked number 1(if they aren't the same person) so each gets a shot at their respective titles and becomes "established" thus getting their name out there, in getting their name out there they also create hype for themselves and have something going for them. Another champion in the same division can also make a name for themselves and have some hype behind them, which is what sets up super fights from two established champions that are putting it on the line to fight each other. This captures in essence something that makes boxing so special. When two established champions are fighting each other, it's special in boxing.

Now wipe all that away, make one champion and one set of rankings. What you will have then is only superfights if a champion moves up in weight to fight another champion at a higher weight class. Superfights at the same weight are harder to make because you have only one champion and some people fighting up rankings to get to them with no real chance to get their name out there because they aren't facing really anyone worth note.

People complain about how "mandatory" title defenses can ruin boxing and praise someone for giving up a belt for taking a challenge(against another glorified champ of another organization mind you) and seeing who is the best.

If you have one belt per division you wipe that away. And most fights you get are going to be glorified mandatory title defenses.

And lets say you wipe away all 4 sanctioning bodies and make one, what if 4 different people are ranked 1 in each? How do we decide who fights the champ first? Are we gonna hold a tournament and have them fight each other? In this time who is the champ gonna fight? Or are we gonna have the champ fight one every 3 months till all 4 are done? See all these kinds of conflicts. Given as many boxers there are in the world today working their way up god knows how many rankings, there is simply no way to try to whittle it down to one ranking one belt. You are causing more problems then you are solving and it will get old fast.

Which is why rather then bashing the Super Six and saying Showtime hasn't done much besides it lately, it should be praised for doing exactly what boxing should do about multiple belts, make the champions fight each other.

Hence why one champ per division won't work and is bad for boxing as a whole especially with the way things are now. This isn't the 1900's for a reason. The only really bad thing about multiple belts in a division, is when the champions don't fight each other, example: The Heavyweight division. Perhaps the heavwyeight division is also the best example of the second problem of multiple belts in the division, if you have a champion that holds them all, and they retire leaving all of the belts vacant.