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Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 15:50 Pre WBO the Euro title was the only way to a world title shot.

Funny that because I recall Michael Watson being made #1 WBC/A winning the Commonwealth trophy.

coghaugen11 wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:54

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 15:50 Pre WBO the Euro title was the only way to a world title shot.

Funny that because I recall Michael Watson being made #1 WBC/A winning the Commonwealth trophy.

I don't remember that, he had the shot but because he was mandatory?

Eubank didn't win any of those belts

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 17:02

coghaugen11 wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:54

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 15:50 Pre WBO the Euro title was the only way to a world title shot.

Funny that because I recall Michael Watson being made #1 WBC/A winning the Commonwealth trophy.

I don't remember that, he had the shot but because he was mandatory?

Eubank didn't win any of those belts

Yes it’s strange considering how successful Eubank was, the only other belt he won was an International one

Benn too, only a commonwealth belt

WeepyEye wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:52 Enzo Maccarinneli did it backwards! WBO world title first, then European followed by British and finally Commonwealth.

technically WBU first if i remember

Think Clev won them all but actually never faced a reigning champion

Chris Pyatt

Clinton Woods.

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 17:02

coghaugen11 wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:54

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 15:50 Pre WBO the Euro title was the only way to a world title shot.

Funny that because I recall Michael Watson being made #1 WBC/A winning the Commonwealth trophy.

I don't remember that, he had the shot but because he was mandatory?

Eubank didn't win any of those belts

Yes the winner was to be made WBA/C #1 from what I remember, Benn to face Duran or Watson to face McCallum

Controversial wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 17:14

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 17:02

coghaugen11 wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:54

Funny that because I recall Michael Watson being made #1 WBC/A winning the Commonwealth trophy.

I don't remember that, he had the shot but because he was mandatory?

Eubank didn't win any of those belts

Yes it’s strange considering how successful Eubank was, the only other belt he won was an International one

Benn too, only a commonwealth belt

Benn doesn’t want Conor messing about with the British title. Nigel said he had bigger fish to fry than hanging around for British or European title fights, bringing up Herol Graham as wasting his career

‘Why didn’t he just fight top-10 Americans or go over to America?’

If you count the IBO title, Billy Schwer.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:32 Billy Joe Saunders!!

Also won an area title !

Coco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:00 Maurice Hope, but I noticed Hoko, McKenzie and Magri all bypassed the Commonwealth

Magri was scheduled to challenge Zambia's Patrick Mambwe for the Commonwealth flyweight title in London in 1980 but Mambwe was found to have cataracts on both eyes.

Randy Turpin won all four titles (surprise, surprise).

Gavin Rees - won the world title first then went onto win British then EBU..... just not the commonwealth

Darren Barker won Area, British, European. World.

If only he’d got Prizefighter to complete the royal flush.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:33 There are also a few who held a belt before they stepped up to British/Comm/Euro level.

Fury won the Irish HW belt.

There’s a few that may have won regional belts first, or even the English belt..

Callum Smith josh warrington both held English title.

About 15 years back or so wasn't the commonwealth one a bit of a budget strap...one that the not so world class guys would be aiming for...but the guys who were looking more like potential world champions would mostly bypass that and head for the European?

And that being said I think the past decade we have lost that "traditional route" boxers look to take...it's all aimed at PPV cards, cramming names on the event, international/intercontinental ABC titles to attain a ranking with that body....etc. Shame really.

knockout wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 15:57 Okolie did it last week and I didn’t remember ! Gotta love Lawrence’s route

Does he hold the record for doing this is the least number of fights?

Controversial wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:54 Tony Bellew

Nuts to think he never beat a reigning champion in any of his title wins.

Most of our top fighters would have been well capable of winning all but it just demonstrates the way the promoters do things

Who has won all of those belts and won the lonsdale outright?

I think Paul Weir was a 2 weight world champion and didn't win any of the other belts.

dbf wrote: ↑30 Mar 2021, 09:35

Controversial wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021, 16:54 Tony Bellew

Nuts to think he never beat a reigning champion in any of his title wins.

Would he have beaten Drozd?

dbf wrote: ↑30 Mar 2021, 11:41 Who has won all of those belts and won the lonsdale outright?

Honeyghan won 3 British title fights and i think at the time you only needed 3 wins to own it outright,later changed to 4 if i remember correctly.