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The best made-up title imo was the "Vacant Black Country Supercruiserweight" title that was created specifically for Nigel Rafferty to fight for in his 100th contest. When asked by a reporter about the title the promoter said something along the lines of "The belt's almost finished-i'm just sticking the ears on the hubcap"

Raffo lost the fight.

milpool wrote:

Galvanised Clout wrote:Sidon has held the WBB 'Title' since 2003 . . . BUT

http://boxrec.com/title_search.php?titl ... &SUBMIT=Go

He's been too busy winning and defending the WBU heavyweight title.

De Mori is the WBU champion?

leejonesjnr wrote:

milpool wrote:

Galvanised Clout wrote:Sidon has held the WBB 'Title' since 2003 . . . BUT

http://boxrec.com/title_search.php?titl ... &SUBMIT=Go

He's been too busy winning and defending the WBU heavyweight title.

De Mori is the WBU champion?

He is now but Sidon held the prestigious WBU belt between 2012 & 13.

To be pedantic (sorry) Sidon (and now DeMori) held the German based WBU V title (?)

There is also an American based WBU which has it's roots in the original Jon Robinson UK based WBU.

http://wbu-boxing.com/

http://www.wbuboxing.org/

Let's hope there's only one WBB

Roy Jones Jr.(American) won the World Boxing Union (German Version) cruiserweight title against Zine Eddine Benmakhlouf(of France, by way of Algeria).

In Moscow, Russia

He defended his German version of the belt against Courtney Fry (UK)

In Riga, Latvia

He defended, once more, his German version of the belt against Hany Atiyo(of Egypt)

In Krasnodar, Russia

Take heart though, lest you think Roy Jones has abandoned the German version of that belt. He recently won it yet again, against the decidedly very-little-or-maybe-not-at-all-German Paul Vazquez of Martinez, California, U.S.A .

In a Pensacola, Florida

Galvanised Clout wrote:

sgtcecil wrote:Didnt Cotto fight for the WBB not too long ago?????

Edit: He did, vs Mayorga!

As far I recall he was completely unaware he was fighting for the WBB 'title' until the belt was thrust at him at the end.

You can see the bewilderment on his face in this picture:



'What's this f*cking thing, I hope I'm not paying a sanctioning fee?'

He looks like he's been handed a dog turd. Only it's something less coveted than that. I bet he thought 'what the hell does 88M mean?'.

mimmy123 wrote:The Mike Tyson win is still getting on the posters. What a bloody way to get peoples attentions.

What a smashing belt they are fighting for

With a bit of T-Cut, that shitness will bruce buffer right out

The fight is on tomorrow night. Any thoughts? I hope Danny does well.

Gnome wrote:The fight is on tomorrow night. Any thoughts? I hope Danny does well.

Wait!

This fight's tomorrow, and it's Kell Brook that's the PPV?

deadpan wrote:

Galvanised Clout wrote:

sgtcecil wrote:Didnt Cotto fight for the WBB not too long ago?????

Edit: He did, vs Mayorga!

As far I recall he was completely unaware he was fighting for the WBB 'title' until the belt was thrust at him at the end.

You can see the bewilderment on his face in this picture:



'What's this f*cking thing, I hope I'm not paying a sanctioning fee?'

He looks like he's been handed a dog turd. Only it's something less coveted than that. I bet he thought 'what the hell does 88M mean?'.

I didn't notice he was holding it upside then.

I'm not sure he's even noticed.

Is it a belt for the over 40s? Poor old Danny, sad to see him still at it.

macaca wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:The Mike Tyson win is still getting on the posters. What a bloody way to get peoples attentions.

What a smashing belt they are fighting for

With a bit of T-Cut, that shitness will bruce buffer right out

No pal you can't polish a turd.

Andreas Sidon v Danny Williams NEVER happened!!!

Sidon fought Drazan Janjanin last night & won

'WBB World Champ'

bigjack wrote:

macaca wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:The Mike Tyson win is still getting on the posters. What a bloody way to get peoples attentions.

What a smashing belt they are fighting for

With a bit of T-Cut, that shitness will bruce buffer right out

No pal you can't polish a turd.

You can if you freeze it first.

You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

Apparently Danny suffered a knee injury and had to pull out of the fight.

SteveO wrote:Apparently Danny suffered a knee injury and had to pull out of the fight.

If he's lucky, it's career threatening. He really needs to retire.

I see Australia in the bottom left

This one flew under my radar - Danny Williams won again on the 23rd June against 6-36 Pavel Siska in the Czech Republic. Two in a row now! I think he will keep going till he gets his 50th win.

Oh dear, have you looks at the opponents record?

32 stoppage defeats

If Danny insists of fighting on, I hope he stays at this level, he's earning a few bob and shouldn't come to grief.

Fuzzy Warbles wrote:Oh dear, have you looks at the opponents record?

32 stoppage defeats

If Danny insists of fighting on, I hope he stays at this level, he's earning a few bob and shouldn't come to grief.

I'd rather he retired, but at least this looks RELATIVELY safe.

There's no truly safe fights, but at least this guy looks pretty ambition free.

How much can these fights be making - surely not much over 5000 pounds a time, if that, and that before tax and expenses. I just don't see how he can be making a lot more, these are pretty garbage fights.

I thought Siska's record was bad but look at the bloke he beat in 2009 (his last win)

http://boxrec.com/boxer/328432

Shocking.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:I'd rather he retired, but at least this looks RELATIVELY safe.

There's no truly safe fights, but at least this guy looks pretty ambition free.

How much can these fights be making - surely not much over 5000 pounds a time, if that, and that before tax and expenses. I just don't see how he can be making a lot more, these are pretty garbage fights.

I agree, he should never have come back after the Chisora loss (and he's 'retired' at least THREE more times since then) and as you say no fight will ever be 100% 'safe' no matter how dire the opposition but I'd rather see him fight duffers like Siska than some young undefeated/ambitious banger.

As for money, who knows but as you say a four rounder on a minor show won't be making him a fortune.

This winning run may catch the eye of the MBC, Danny could end up fighting for the MBC 'World Title' if he's not careful