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WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO - the primary belts only.

We still don't know about the next step of WBO at HW (Usyk) - just to remind you........

Taylor

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:23Taylor

He beats Ramirez?

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:23Taylor

He beats Ramirez?

I think so, they're both a choice.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:23Taylor

He beats Ramirez?

I think so, they're both a choice.

Yeh. Closest fight being made.

Fury-Joshua have the WBO to deal with.

Teo has already said he doesn’t see himself fighting Haney anytime soon.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:27

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

He beats Ramirez?

I think so, they're both a choice.

Yeh. Closest fight being made.

Fury-Joshua have the WBO to deal with.

Teo has already said he doesn’t see himself fighting Haney anytime soon.

I hope Teo will change his opinion.

Taylor-Ramirez is the easiest fight for all 4 to be made. So, I picked Taylor.

Btw, Lopez gotta be already undisputed, f*ck the WBC and their franchise sh!t.

lopez arguably counts already....it's a weird situation. is he franchise champ now? loma was wbc champ, then gets upgraded, then teo beats him....so teo beat the highest guy in the wbc and has all the other belts


jermell charlo----i think castano beats texiera for the wbo. then pbc bois mell and castano can fight for undisputed

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 15:21 lopez arguably counts already....it's a weird situation. is he franchise champ now? loma was wbc champ, then gets upgraded, then teo beats him....so teo beat the highest guy in the wbc and has all the other belts


jermell charlo----i think castano beats texiera for the wbo. then pbc bois mell and castano can fight for undisputed

Yeah, the belt situation was already quite confusing, the WBC have made it worse with their franchise nonsense.

I think Suli once said that a fighter cannot lose a franchise belt, so Lopez will have to beat Haney to prove he is the man, despite already beating Loma.

The mind boggles....

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:27

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 14:25

He beats Ramirez?

I think so, they're both a choice.

Yeh. Closest fight being made.

Fury-Joshua have the WBO to deal with.

Teo has already said he doesn’t see himself fighting Haney anytime soon.

Teo is already the Undisputed Lightweight Champion. I don't know what belt Haney has, but it's secondary.

DrDuke wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 15:16 Taylor-Ramirez is the easiest fight for all 4 to be made. So, I picked Taylor.

Btw, Lopez gotta be already undisputed, f*ck the WBC and their franchise sh!t.

Well said

candyslim wrote: ↑26 Dec 2020, 06:10

DrDuke wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 15:16 Taylor-Ramirez is the easiest fight for all 4 to be made. So, I picked Taylor.

Btw, Lopez gotta be already undisputed, f*ck the WBC and their franchise sh!t.

Well said

WBC doesn't admit Teo as their LW champion. Sad, but true. Unfortunately.

Everybody in boxing from the fighters to the fans should ignore the governing bodies and their power would decline along with their revenue stream, and they would pretty soon cease to exist.

This is never going to happen because the fighters, promoters and the networks, love shiny belts to validate their achievements and to add lustre to their shows. Titles, belts yay, and the more the merrier.

The WBC aren't even the worst of them - how depressing is that?

On a brighter note, if you look back through the record books back to when the average sports fan could name the weight classes and probably most of the current champions, it wasn't unusual to see a title uncontested for a couple of years. Reducing the number of titles and title-fights might encourage top fighters to face each other regularly like they used to, there again it may not.

Maybe we are better off as it stands

Forget it. Those days are over.