Problems with Too Many Title Belts Diluting the Sport

Times are changing for professional boxing and world championship boxing at its highest level and fans demand the best fight the best, week in, week out.

if that is not continually improved and regularly achieved, there might be some problems for the world title belt organizations moving forward.

The current four recognized world title belts are the WBC, the WBA, the WBO and the IBF.

However, new and even old hardcore boxing fans have grown tired over the years of too many title fights and the alphabet nature of some title fights, not always to do with the above organizations mind you.

Fans want to simply see the best boxers in the world fight the other best boxers in the world on a regular basis on a level playing field.

Where in theory the best fighter in each division should be the world champion per weight class.

Problems with Too Many Title Belts Diluting the Sport

One world champion per weight division like it was in the old days, where fans were like, oh yeah, that’s the welterweight champion of the world, that’s the middleweight champion of the world.

If there was a way unifications could happen more between the above four it would be great and soon new, big players are coming to boxing like the UFC, Paramount and more of TKO who staged their first successful event last September with Terence Crawford vs Canelo Alvarez.

The fight was excellent and Crawford won the contest on points, a superhuman achievement moving up all the weight to super=middleweight to become a living legend.

Something he didn’t need a belt to confirm he is — in the eyes of the fans — the people who count — you the consumer.

This is something that might get looked at shortly if world champions continue to have to, or choose to for whatever reason, vacate world title belts, like the two best fighters in the entire sport lately did in Oleksandr Usyk and Terence Crawford.

Usyk didn’t find a mandatory against Fabio Wardley interesting enough so he chucked the WBO strap away, Crawford told the WBC where to go over sanctioning fees recently and said he should be paid the sanctioning fee.

These two boxers are setting a precedent but this is happening more and more now, the best must fight the best at all costs.

Nothing else will do or be acceptable for the sport, and the fans, internationally, worldwide.