Last night, I was watching some boxing on Eurosport from the Ukraine, which saw three Ukrainians fighting for what were pretty much small fry in terms of titles, but that set me wondering as to which fighters of true quality came through these small organisational titles to become true greats in their times. After a swift look at the p4p table put forward by Ring Magazine, and their records, the results showed that:

WBC International title: 4
NABF: 3
USBA: 3
NABO: 3
British title: 2
OPBF title: 1
WBA International: 1
WBO Inter-continental title: 1

Out of the current p4p suggested by the Ring ratings, only one of those fighters ignored all the smaller titles and went straight on to World titles, and that was, unsurprisingly, Floyd Mayweather. On that p4p list, Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez and Ricky Hatton were the ones who had worked their way through most regional and international titles.

My question to you would be which of the regional/novice titles do you respect te most, and is there any of those which tend to lend themselves to the real potential in their respective divisions?