What will become of the Heavyweight championship of the World?

[Willow The Wisp]

Yeah. The only saving grace is maybe Turkish cuts through it and has a 8 man tourney where the top 2 ranked fight for each belt and the winners keep fighting until there is one unified champ again.

The kind of money that he has access to does tend to grease the wheels. We'll hope for the best, because; as you can see by responses in this thread alone; the Alphabet organizations and the "writers" (bloggers, really) who they influence (bribe?); have made giant strides this decade in obscuring real history in their pursuit of profit (ill-gotten), and confusing casual fans. That's tragic for Boxing, because it is that rich history that makes Boxing very different from, and more important than, the innumerable other combat sports such as slap fighting.


The Alphabet orgs are selling crack, and the casual fans are unwittingly becoming addicted.

[BustedKnuckles]

Yeah. The only saving grace is maybe Turkish cuts through it and has a 8 man tourney where the top 2 ranked fight for each belt and the winners keep fighting until there is one unified champ again.

And then buys the other orgs and somehow orchestrates a group vote where they ban new belts and new orgs from ever being created again, while also eliminating all but 2 or 3 current orgs.

[Coverdale]

And then buys the other orgs and somehow orchestrates a group vote where they ban new belts and new orgs from ever being created again, while also eliminating all but 2 or 3 current orgs.

This. He should buy everything and immediately erase the WBOgus from history, pretend it never happened. Then once we're back to the three proper belts, tell the three presidents they can continue to run the organisations semi-autonomously on the following conditions:

1. Issuing 'interim' belts is punishable by removal of hands by sword.
2. 'Regular' belts mean a public flogging for Mendoza.
3. Lame mandatories mean Daryl Peoples gets locked in a Saudi dungeon.
4. 'Diamond/Franchise' belts is a public hanging for Sulaiman.

Problems solved.

[Spray_resistant]

If Usyk unifies and then retires as I expect it will be an absolute cluster ***********.

What do you mean IF? He is the real champion end of story, no one has any other claim as champion at HW unless he 1. loses 2. retires 3. moves back to CW.

[The Big Dunn]

What do you mean IF? He is the real champion end of story, no one has any other claim as champion at HW unless he 1. loses 2. retires 3. moves back to CW.

I agree with you. The fact is he goes into the fight with 3 belts. I wasn’t suggesting he wasn’t the man at Hwt.

read it again.

He could lose but I do t think he will.

[Willow The Wisp]

This. He should buy everything and immediately erase the WBOgus from history, pretend it never happened. Then once we're back to the three proper belts, tell the three presidents they can continue to run the organisations semi-autonomously on the following conditions:

1. Issuing 'interim' belts is punishable by removal of hands by sword.
2. 'Regular' belts mean a public flogging for Mendoza.
3. Lame mandatories mean Daryl Peoples gets locked in a Saudi dungeon.
4. 'Diamond/Franchise' belts is a public hanging for Sulaiman.

Problems solved.

3, 4, what's the difference. There can only be one.
At heavyweight, We've always had that. The lineal.

[Willow The Wisp]

What do you mean IF? He is the real champion end of story, no one has any other claim as champion at HW unless he 1. loses 2. retires 3. moves back to CW.

True. I'd even argue that if he moved back to Cruiserweight, that he's still the champion at Heavyweight. No doubt in my mind. Many of the best past champions were what we call Cruiserweights today.

[Willow The Wisp]

Usyk remains a threat to the singular distinction held by Marciano. That's something.

[Spray_resistant]

True. I'd even argue that if he moved back to Cruiserweight, that he's still the champion at Heavyweight. No doubt in my mind. Many of the best past champions were what we call Cruiserweights today.

imagine if Ali was around today and no one cared since he was willing to make 200lbs on the scale and constantly fighting somehwere in Europe all of the time lol

[Coverdale]

3, 4, what's the difference. There can only be one.
At heavyweight, We've always had that. The lineal.

I'm proposing a compromise in the absence of a realistic path to your maximal goal.