Fu##ing WBC!

[0james0]

The problem is that everyone is powerless to stop it and the fighters involved certainly aren't going to turn away a world title shot.

They've essentially turned that title into a Mickey Mouse one with the two most recent fights. The Pac fight was a joke and so is this one. Rankings mean nothing.

The only way to stop it is through the fighters, us fans will watch anything for the chance of a good scrap. Fighters would need to boycott organisations and make their titles worthless.

[Kev]

The problem is that everyone is powerless to stop it and the fighters involved certainly aren't going to turn away a world title shot.

They've essentially turned that title into a Mickey Mouse one with the two most recent fights. The Pac fight was a joke and so is this one. Rankings mean nothing.

The only way to stop it is through the fighters, us fans will watch anything for the chance of a good scrap. Fighters would need to boycott organisations and make their titles worthless.

There are four titles per weight class, rankings do mean nothing.

You can argue about fairness, but from a purely pragmatic standpoint, it's better to have a potential glamour boy and future star holding a belt than a mid 30's mediocre Brit with no future.

The light middleweight division is devoid of any exciting champions right now and so I guess they are manouvering to try and get one established.

One of the ironies however is that most people would agree Alvarez is a far better prospect, and a better potential world champion than Ryan Rhodes and some of the other contenders.

You are in effect claiming that the belts would be more credible if worse fighters got their shots.

I've never understood this. All those who clamoured against Manny and Margarito, two of the most established fighters today, fighting for a world title saying they weren't worthy.

Well if you go by rankings you will have guys like Ryan Rhodes and K9 Bundrage as world champs.

How that gives more credibility and integrity to the sport is completely beyond me

[Spicoli]

The Networks should be called on just as the alphabet boyz. They attach a meaningless belt to a terrible match up and call it championship worthy. I dont exactly have a huge problem with Alvarez fighting for the belt.....its hatton as an opponent and fact that he's leapfrogging much more serious contenders to get there on the premier network. HBO has aired trinket mismatches alll the time.

Berto fought and 'earned' the WBC welter trinket vs undeserving Micky Rodriquez....aired on HBO.
Three obscure fights and three years prior the same Rodriquez lost vs Baldo....for the very same WBC belt.

Shit Think my bigger problem is this being a main event on HBO then a set up for Alvarez. I mean we already know the belts dont mean crap.