Are all multiple division champions for real?

By Boxing News - 08/12/2013 - Comments

By Gerardo Granados: My friend asked my opinion on his favorite boxer who is a multiple division champion, but he wasn’t satisfied with my answer. It is a fact and it is a reality that pro boxing is a business and its main goal it’s to generate big revenues, and they should be bigger every single time.

Can we as boxing fans suspect that on times it could be possible that a dangerous fighter would be avoided due business wise reasons, being relegated to the undercards and instead we get to see hyped and overrated prizefighters who own an attractive personality but aren’t as good as they have been promoted to be? Recently I’ve read a couple of articles at the internet in which two of the current multiple division organization champions were praised and I could do nothing else but to disagree because more than once these prizefighters have been spoon fed to look better than they really are.

Could it be possible for a promoter to create illusions, and to sell them as a bright full product that gets the attention of many boxing fans but that at the same time that product isn´t a high quality one. Many boxing fans are convinced that these organization champions are the real deal but also many of those fans might be casual fans. This brings me to believe that the ones who make pro boxing a profitable business are the casual fans and not the boxing purist or the so called experts who are not so easily to be fooled by these illusions.

Once I believed what I saw and I trusted the TV boxing commentators and analysts, back then I was just a kid and also was a casual boxing fan that based his opinion on the experts view or at the punch stats of the fight, now I see things differently but I still enjoy pro boxing. More than once I have seen a young talented lion to fight for a vacant organization belt against a low ranked challenger and on times against an opponent that has never been ranked on that division before; I have seen them move up in weight to challenge the weakest of all of the organization champions or to have won a controversial fight decision and many times I have seen them engage tailor made opponents, and it is possible that the reader could have seen the same in the past or present days. So if it is not new and it will keep on happening, it could be possible that two of the current multiple division organization champions to have achieved that feat with the help of a good promotion job.

My friend is a big fan of one of them and believes that this prizefighter is the real deal and that he is destined to be enshrined in to the Hall of Fame as the greatest of all time. To be honest I recognize that this multiple division organization champion is talented and is skilled but he has not engaged enough prime dangerous contenders and the big names on his record were a little past their prime. Although he does has a magnetic personality that will allow him the chance to achieve greatness but I doubt that he will be considered as the all time greatest.

Is it possible for us the boxing fans to fail to notice when an organization champion has been manufactured?



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