Heavyweight Boxing Titles.

[Leekbrookgull]

Please can someone list all the heavyweight boxing organisations, i/e WBA,etc i know a few but arent there about six ?

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Think there i sone called the WBC

 

[captainmorganrum]

Please can someone list all the heavyweight boxing organisations, i/e WBA,etc i know a few but arent there about six ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/champions_list/default.stm

 

[Pigsy]

IBO. IBF too?

 

[BensGrandad]

Inter-Continental ( which is a junior title.) There was one called the WBA but I think that has been scrapped.

 

[Gritt23]

Inter-Continental ( which is a junior title.) There was one called the WBA but I think that has been scrapped.

Eh? The WBA hasn't been been scrapped.

There are only really 4 titles that are generally recognised.
WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO.

Incidentally, you could argue that the WBA are to blame for all of this proliferation, as it was them who first decided on having a seperate Heavyweight World Champion, when Cassius Clay gave an immediate re-match to Sonny Liston. Immediate re-matches were against the WBA rules at the time, and Ernie Tippett (I think?) was supposed to be the mandatory defence, so he was awarded the title of WBA Heavyweight Champion, while the WBC stiuck with Cassius Clay.

Clay then beat Tippett to be undisputed Champion shortly afterwards, but the open door had been leaned on, and ......

 

[BensGrandad]

Eh? The WBA hasn't been been scrapped.

There are only really 4 titles that are generally recognised.
WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO.

Incidentally, you could argue that the WBA are to blame for all of this proliferation, as it was them who first decided on having a seperate Heavyweight World Champion, when Cassius Clay gave an immediate re-match to Sonny Liston. Immediate re-matches were against the WBA rules at the time, and Ernie Tippett (I think?) was supposed to be the mandatory defence, so he was awarded the title of WBA Heavyweight Champion, while the WBC stiuck with Cassius Clay.

Clay then beat Tippett to be undisputed Champion shortly afterwards, but the open door had been leaned on, and ......

I was be scacastic in that the WBA title has gone to nobodys since Lennox Lewis.

I think the man you are talking about was Ernie TERRELL.

 

[bhafc4eva]

Re: Re: Heavyweight Boxing Titles.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/champions_list/default.stm

Sorry but am i going mad, but where is hitman hattan on that list?

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

Don't forget the BMPU (Big Man Punch Up) title.

 

[Gritt23]

I was be scacastic in that the WBA title has gone to nobodys since Lennox Lewis.

Oh sorry, didn't pick up on that. I think it's the WBA who also have a strange rule whereby a Champion who holds multiple belts is a "unified" Champion, and they then sanction another fighter as their "regular" Champion. A bit odd.

I think the man you are talking about was Ernie TERRELL.

That could be right. Not sure where I got Ernie Tippett from, but it didn't sound right when I was typing it.

 

[chez]

Re: Re: Re: Heavyweight Boxing Titles.

Sorry but am i going mad, but where is hitman hattan on that list?

I think Hatten has had to give up his titles to enable to fight his next opponant (whose name escapes me). All to do with boxing politics.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Re: Re: Re: Heavyweight Boxing Titles.

Sorry but am i going mad, but where is hitman hattan on that list?

I think Hatten has had to give up his titles to enable to fight his next opponant (whose name escapes me). All to do with boxing politics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/6345535.stm

 

[Ernest]

The only boxer from Brighton to fight for the World Heavyweight Title and send that FRAUD Joe Bugner packing for good

SCOTT WELCH

 

[macky]

The only boxer from Brighton to fight for the World Heavyweight Title and send that FRAUD Joe Bugner packing for good

SCOTT WELCH

i beg to differ what about tommy farr

 

[Ernest]

i beg to differ what about tommy farr

Try looking up Tonypandy on a map

 

[Normal Rob]

Re: Re: Heavyweight Boxing Titles.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/champions_list/default.stm

what makes me mad (and everybody else) about boxing is that the chances of Calzaghe fighting Kessler in unification fight across all 4 codes/divisions whatfuckingever are f*** all.

 

[Frutos]

Most widely recognized 4:

WBC (World Boxing Council)
WBA (World Boxing Association)
IBF (International Boxing Federation)
WBO (World Boxing Organisation)

More lightly regarded:

IBO (International Boxing Organisation)
WBU (World Boxing Union)
WBF (World Boxing Federation)
IBA (International Boxing Organisation)

Those are the ones I know of, but there are probably more out there somewhere

 

[Frutos]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Heavyweight Boxing Titles.

I think Hatten has had to give up his titles to enable to fight his next opponant (whose name escapes me). All to do with boxing politics.

Jose Luis Castillo

 

[macky]

Try looking up Tonypandy on a map

import like most welch is from shoerham is'nt he

 

[Biscuit]

The only boxer from Brighton to fight for the World Heavyweight Title and send that FRAUD Joe Bugner packing for good

SCOTT WELCH

When I met the LEGEND.