The light welterweight devision is litered with stars BUT.

[stujones]

Kostya Tszyu = RING champion, WBA super-champion, WBC champion emeritus, and IBF champion-on-an-approved-inury-leave

Sharmba Mitchell = IBF interim champion

Arturo Gatti = WBC champion (non-emeritus)

Vivian Harris = WBA champion (non-super)

Zab Judah = WBO champion

Hatton-Pinto (TBC) winner = WBO interim champion

That's just two fewer champions in one division than there used to be in all of boxing!

Absolutely Ridiculous.

[bennie]

Kostya Tszyu = RING champion, WBA super-champion, WBC champion emeritus, and IBF champion-on-an-approved-inury-leave

Sharmba Mitchell = IBF interim champion

Arturo Gatti = WBC champion (non-emeritus)

Vivian Harris = WBA champion (non-super)

Zab Judah = WBO champion

Hatton-Pinto (TBC) winner = WBO interim champion

That's just two fewer champions in one division than there used to be in all of boxing!

Absolutely Ridiculous.

Yes, indeed. When Junior Witter was scheduled to fight Kelson Pinto in Manchester in December it was billed for the WBO interim light-welterweight title. On the same night in Atlantic City, the WBO champion Zab Judah was defending his title against a guy he would knock out in the first round.
Witter-Pinto fell through of course, but, to this day, I can't understand why it was for the interim title. I thought a champ was supposed to be indisposed or something for that to happen. But when the champ's defending on the same night, that's just boxing committing suicide.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Interim titles seem to be proliferatinig pretty rapidly I notice lately. As if super champions and normal champs weren't enough, now we have interim champs and eliminators between fighters not even ranked 1 or 2 all the time.

It's a world gone mad.

[Sweet P]

All those belts mean bugger all there is only 1 champ at 140 and he is KOSTYA TSZYU.

[bigynzing]

All those belts mean bugger all there is only 1 champ at 140 and he is KOSTYA TSZYU.

Not for long......just you wait n see sunny.

[Chambers]

All those belts mean bugger all there is only 1 champ at 140 and he is KOSTYA TSZYU.

but he hasn't fought in 12 months and he is out for another 9

[jamesmcdonnell]

He may never recover fully either, it's a bad sign when a fighter gets injured twice in a row in training.

Sharmba may well beat him, Tszyu is going to be rusty as hell when he finally gets in that ring, almost 2 full years since his last fight at his age is not a good thing.