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margaret thatcher wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 15:53 canelo dumped the wbc because he didnt like them trying to force a golovkin fight at the time

gilgamesh wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 16:13 By the way. I'd say the dumbest ever "giving up their belt" has to go to Mickey Bey. He gave up his belt I guess thinking that bigger fights were waiting for him because Al Haymon told him so, but he was so boring that the belt was the one and only thing that kept him in the running for big fights so that combined with losing not too long after to John Molina after horrible advice from his corner effectively killed his career.

More often than not when a guy gives up a belt, there's a good reason or he goes on to achieve something else. Mickey Bey gave up any possibility of his career ever advancing by giving up his belt.

Gotta be one of the bigger mistakes a boxer ever made.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 16:23 he gave up his wbc title because he admitted he didnt want to be forced into a fight with ggg, then he fought the much weaker liam smith next

it's a world champ who gave up his belt, exactly like the thread title

Boxing Prospect wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 16:23 Going to assume we're only considering ones where a fighter hasn't moved up/down

Moruti Mthalane (vacated rather than faced Amnat Ruenroeng in a mandatory)

Hekkie Budler (vacated the IBF title rather than faced Felix Alvarado, did keep the WBA title which he lost to Hiroto Kyoguchi)

Kyung Yun Lee (vacated IBF title to chase a fight with Hiroki Ioka - which doesn't answer the question but thought it was worthy of adding as he was the first IBF champion at 105)

Donnie Nietes (vacated WBO 115 to erm.... Errrrr... er)

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 15:53 canelo dumped the wbc because he didnt like them trying to force a golovkin fight at the time

Pugilist-specialist wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 16:27

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 16:23 he gave up his wbc title because he admitted he didnt want to be forced into a fight with ggg, then he fought the much weaker liam smith next

it's a world champ who gave up his belt, exactly like the thread title

Thanks pal. I did put for a non-title fight in the OP - but not in the title

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 16:40

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 15:53 canelo dumped the wbc because he didnt like them trying to force a golovkin fight at the time

Are you TRYING to invite EO into this thread?

Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 20:38 Lennox Lewis binned his WBA belt rather than fight Ruiz and then his IBF belt rather than fight Byrd.

Fray Bentos wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 22:43 Lloyd Honeyghan gave up his WBA belt than fight Harold Volbrecht - he would have had no problem with beating Volbrecht but at the time he would not fight a white South African because of that country's apartheid system. He was actually pictured throwing the WBA belt into a bin.

bennie wrote: ↑23 Jan 2021, 04:07 Jesus Salud, a Hawaiian fighter based in the States, relinquished his WBA super-bantamweight title in 1990 instead of going through with a mandated defence against Luis Mendoza in Colombia, where there was civil unrest. Salud had looked brilliant in winning the title from Mexico's Juan Jose Estrada in Los Angeles in December 1989 and went on to receive five more cracks at a world title but lost the lot. He now scratches his head at his long boxing career. "What was I doing in there!"
He fared better than the unfortunate Estrada, murdered by members of his own family.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑23 Jan 2021, 05:47 petey quillin vacated the wbo, went inactive for a year while andy lee won it, then returned and challenged lee (well, pete was overwieght so was non title)

so basically gave up a title, only to attempt to challenge for it next fight lol, weird

Fray Bentos wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 22:43 Lloyd Honeyghan gave up his WBA belt than fight Harold Volbrecht - he would have had no problem with beating Volbrecht but at the time he would not fight a white South African because of that country's apartheid system. He was actually pictured throwing the WBA belt into a bin.