BoxRec

It's almost impossible to keep count of how many belts there are these days. The simple answer is way too many.

In this article the writer has gone to the trouble of counting >>>

http://indianexpress.com/article/sports ... ng-sports/?

96
There are 96 belts across the WBC, WBO, IBF and WBA sanctioning bodies.

354
There are 354 belts in all in each weight division (including mirror sanctioning bodies and regional titles) according to Boxrec.

255
The WBO sanctiones 255 belts across regional affiliates and weight divisions.

6018
Estimated number of belts world wide.

Ah who cares? It's always been a joke in boxing and it's just a prop at this point to help out the ring walk. The Lineal Championship is all that most knowledgeable fans care about. In most divisions, you can pinpoint the real champion aka the man that beat the man. In very rare case like we have in the Light Heavy division, you can lose the lineal championship by being a pussy and avoiding someone like Adonis has been doing. Most recognize Kovalev as the lineal champion.

I agree there's too many but really, I don't care.

Plenty of belts means plenty of fights. Like take tomorrow's fight. If there was just one belt and Rigo was still holding the super-bantamweight belt hostage, defending it once a year no way would we be getting that fight. Likewise Joshua vs Martin which I think will be pretty good; no way would Joshua face Martin if a trinket wasn't at stake.

So really, as long as we keep getting good "world title" fights, I'm for the high number of belts.

theres good and bad to be had from this situation but like caldo said boxing fans know whats what its the poor sods just getting into the sport I feel sorry for, can you imagine trying to make sense of it all from scratch ?