this is his claim to fame. steamrolling little guys. he is too big, strong, and athletic for 130-35 pounders. pretty sure he cant get down to 135 though.
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this is his claim to fame. steamrolling little guys. he is too big, strong, and athletic for 130-35 pounders. pretty sure he cant get down to 135 though.
Amor fati
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Thanks for the details, these boxing titles with its rules can be very confusing. It's also crazy how fighters(Champions) can hold up other fighters if they are injured, suspended or ducking.
it can lead to someone becoming full WBC champion...thats how GGG became WBC middleweight champion..he won the interim belt off Rubio to be the mandatory..Cotto didnt want to face him so he dropped that belt..Canelo won it in their fight and didnt want to face him...so he dropped...2 lineal champs disgracing themselves...then GGG was awarded full recognition
Mell with the interim belt..if GGG drops it or is stripped for whatever reason he'd be the full WBC Middleweight champion
interim belts have a purpose but the end goal of them is to have who was the champion and who was the interim champ face off
Amor fati
Superstar
Yea what you said makes sense, as boxing is a business.
its subjective. yes for automatic stars like Canelo and GGG it means something because they will make them champ anyway. for someone like Charlo its not going to mean much. GGG can drop that belt and Charlo can become the full champ and he still will be fighting no-names. Charlo's team hopes the belt can leverage a GGG match but really GGG is too big to be leveraged by an interim title of the belt he already holds.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
It is what it is
out of every elements of pro boxing, organizing bodies are what I like the least
Like... boxing never gonna be a fully organized, centrally controlled sport, it's just not in the nature of it. That is both good and bad... It's bad because there is favoritism, unfairness, corruption, shytloads of titles and etc... and it is good because stories and characters which couldn't happen or exist in other sports ruled by a centralized body.
My problem with the organizations that they don't add anything for the good part of the chaos and I can only connect the negativums of the sport to them. We don't really have fukkeries, stories and characters because of organizing bodies, we have favoritism, corruption and the inflation of the meaning of a "world title" from them which are less romantic characteristics of the sport.
but... I guess it stays this way, without one, the other wouldn't exist...
Skill does not = popularity breh. He ain''t a gatekeeper yet though. He's on Vargas level.nikkas in here saying Broner is now a gatekeeper. I dont recall fight threads being made with 20+ pages, or nikkas tuning in for true gatekeepers like Hank Lundy
So you're saying Triple G is a paper WBC champion? Strange slander for you Pat but I agree. Likewise, when he fought the person who had the belt before him he scored a draw. You're right he is a paper WBC champ
Triple G/Charlo would be nice if it ever happened.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
They are one kind of gate keeper though they hold the gate for the A level, the top dogs. They don't belong there but if you can beat them clearly you are there
David_TheMan
Veteran
His claim to fame is being dominant in his weight class.
You know how foolish you sound?
So you're saying Triple G is a paper WBC champion? Strange slander for you Pat but I agree. Likewise, when he fought the person who had the belt before him he scored a draw. You're right he is a paper WBC champ
Triple G/Charlo would be nice if it ever happened.
Paper? Canelo gave up his belt....paper is what Timmy was when Floyd was STRIPPED by the WBO
Who'd Triple G fight to win the WBC regular belt? I forgot who it was, care to refresh my memory
Broners a B fighter above 140 IMO
Who Timmy beat to become WBO champ again..hint it wasn't FloydWho'd Triple G fight to win the WBC regular belt? I forgot who it was, care to refresh my memory
I literally have no clueWho Timmy beat to become WBO champ again..hint it wasn't Floyd
what's that got to do with what we were talking about?