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re: Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou
Posted on 7/11/23 at 4:19 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY
Posted on 7/11/23 at 4:19 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY
It is a shambles, in a lot of ways Boxing has brought this on themselves by having so many belts.
1 belt, 1 No. 1 contender and mandatory fights fixed all of this. There is 4 top class/big draw heavy weights which means 6 potential showdowns should have happened. Only 2 of them - Fury/Wilder and AJ/Usyk - have happened in nearly 5 years.
Hypothetically if Fury retires after this - which I'm sure he will say he will... - he will have ended his career vs Whyte, Chisora and a UFC fighter.
Honestly shambolic.
1 belt, 1 No. 1 contender and mandatory fights fixed all of this. There is 4 top class/big draw heavy weights which means 6 potential showdowns should have happened. Only 2 of them - Fury/Wilder and AJ/Usyk - have happened in nearly 5 years.
Hypothetically if Fury retires after this - which I'm sure he will say he will... - he will have ended his career vs Whyte, Chisora and a UFC fighter.
Honestly shambolic.
Posted on 7/11/23 at 4:19 pm to engvol
Not only that but they have a million weight classes.
Posted on 7/11/23 at 5:47 pm to engvol
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It is a shambles, in a lot of ways Boxing has brought this on themselves by having so many belts.
And not just so many belts, but also so many boxing organizations with their own version of champions. There's the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, NABF
Originally there were 8 divisions in boxing, now there's 18 divisions with many of them just 3-4 lbs. difference in weight.
Then you have 4 major organizations, each with their own champions in the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF. Some champions own belts from multiple divisions as the fight to become the undisputed champion, but not many achieve that due to the politics involved and guys wanting to not lose that all important "O" in the loss column. Cherry picking more or less.
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