Re: Was Ernie Terrell a real champion?
Posted: 17 Apr 2018, 18:27
Yea that is the main problems with my argument/bitching for sure - you can go all the way back to Fitzsimmons, retired, un-retired, ducked Corbett, ducked Jeffries (until he couldn't anymore.) Champs refusing to fight was one of the reasons the alphabet boys got legs under them.Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑17 Apr 2018, 15:40 For the most part I agree with you. The WBS titles don't mean anything to me. If you really know the sport, you know how phony they usually are.
The only thing that gives me pause is when a real champion does not defend the title against the best and is rightfully stripped. Spinks (who I really liked as a person) probably deserved to be stripped of the title. So did George Foreman when he was way past it and refused to fight real contenders after beating Moorer.