Boxing Belts For Sale

[Covfefe]

I'd love to own a Lonsdale belt, but I could never buy one. Something not right about it, we should have a British boxing museum and they should go there when fighters sell them or pass on and families don't want them.

[CHRIS TARRANT]

I always think the EBU belt may stand for something pretty good but the belt itself is utter crap. A metal buckle on a basic strip of leather. I could get that made down the local shoe shop

The commonwealth is a Tribble looking belt as well, both great achievement tho to win tho not knocking that at all........

All boxing belts are terrible.



Yet another example of pro-wrestling outclassing boxing.

[Mimmy]

I'd love to own a Lonsdale belt, but I could never buy one. Something not right about it, we should have a British boxing museum and they should go there when fighters sell them or pass on and families don't want them.

You can buy Kirkland Laing's Lonsdale Belt at a snip

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lord-Lonsdale ... 2333103313


If I was a millionaire or loaded I'd buy this belt and personally take it back to kirkland who is in a nursing home in Hornsea.

[Coco]

The older ones are more expensive as they contain real gold, I've seen them go as cheap as 4K, at the end of the day I don't think 15k is a fortune for Laings belt.
On another note I see Charlie Magri's son has started a just giving page for his father. I dunno if Charlie still has his belts.

[bennie]

Charlie is one of the few fighters to win a Lonsdale Belt with only one notch on the Belt; he was awarded a Belt after he had retired because of his supremacy over the domestic field for most of his career.

[Emmseegee]

Like the idea of a museum buying them up for display, hate to see fighters having to sell everything up to make ends meet.

Also as someone mentioned, I think theres something that would feel wrong about buying one. Having one on display in a games room or something would be great but the real value is in winning one and earning it. Feels like ripping off other peoples hard work to just buy one!!

[Tomasino]

Like the idea of a museum buying them up for display, hate to see fighters having to sell everything up to make ends meet.

Also as someone mentioned, I think theres something that would feel wrong about buying one. Having one on display in a games room or something would be great but the real value is in winning one and earning it. Feels like ripping off other peoples hard work to just buy one!!

It would be. I can't imagine having another mans trophys in my house and trying to show it off

[TheCobra]

Like the idea of a museum buying them up for display, hate to see fighters having to sell everything up to make ends meet.

Also as someone mentioned, I think theres something that would feel wrong about buying one. Having one on display in a games room or something would be great but the real value is in winning one and earning it. Feels like ripping off other peoples hard work to just buy one!!

It would be. I can't imagine having another mans trophys in my house and trying to show it off

Same here, it feels wrong and just a bit pointless. Sad to see Nicky Cook selling his prizes for a couple of grand a pop. Is he really that desperate for that sort of money? Seems stupid to me. Couple of grand isn't a lot of money these days unless you're absolutely on your arse.

[crusader]

Then again, maybe they just don't value them much at this point? Perhaps hardcore boxing fans glorify their achievements more than they do, and/or the wins themselves are what matter to them, and not the belts that came along with them. Perhaps also, having fought for money, the belts became less important to them and $$ is how they feel most rewarded for their successes. I'm sure some of the guys who sell their belts are on hard times and would rather keep them, but maybe it's not always the sad story we assume.

[Realistic]

I could have bought a Lonsdale belt not long ago for 6.7k from the same seller of the Commonwealth (Lee) Didn't bother in the end (It was one of the McKenzie)

[bennie]

Duke missed out on a Lonsdale Belt but Clinton has one. He would have had two but the Board changed the rules in 1981, allowing only one Belt per fighter per weight.

[Realistic]

Duke missed out on a Lonsdale Belt but Clinton has one. He would have had two but the Board changed the rules in 1981, allowing only one Belt per fighter per weight.

The one I could have had was 1 of 2

[JChrisL]

£6.7k is a great price for an original fight won Lonsdale belt - I would certainly buy one at that price. I saw the Kirkland one - evidence it was Kirkland’s is missing so some real uncertainty which heavily impacts value.

I have Holyfield’s IBF cruiserweight belt and Barkley’s WBC middleweight belt from the Hearns fight.