By Al Hmiel: With WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko finally retiring after holding boxing hostage for 15 months of unfair inactivity making qualified and underpaid contenders wait, the heavyweight WBC belt will open for the taking.
Finally it looks like Wladimir Klitschko will have the opportunity now to hold all the Heavyweight championship belts – WBO, IBF, WBA and the WBC’s as one champion. Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola were ordered today by the World Boxing Council to face each other for the vacant WBC title. But after that, we could see Wladimir facing winner at some point.
Isn’t it supposed to be this way in boxing with one title and one champion? Let Arreola and Stiverne have their fight and temporarily hold the WBC belt until facing Wladimir. Neither of these two fighters is championship caliber. After Wladimir easily disposes of the temporary WBC champ, whoever it is, then the heavyweight titles will be held by one man and arguably the best heavyweight in the world.
No more alphabet champs and fake champs parading around all claiming to be the best heavyweight in the world as it will finally be settled. Wladimir could then call for his heavyweight opponents to line up in order of rank and proceed to beat them in order. How refreshing. Heavyweight boxing will be with one champion and the best man holding all the belts at the same time. Boxing has become too much of a political game and has too many championship belts for each division. One champ and one belt is all that is needed.
Think about it for a second. Just one champion and no imposters of fake champions.
How nice it would be per each division and weight class to have a true champion defending a title that actually means something. Let the best man have the belt and the title and the glory that goes with being the champion in his weight class. All the other pretenders can work to take the belt from the one true champion. Vitali retiring is going to help boxing and Wladimir should be collecting the WBC belt very soon.
Below are the top fighters for the following weight classes:
Andre Ward at 168lbs
Floyd Mayweather Jr. at 147lbs and 154 lbs
Sergey Kovalev at 175 lbs
Gennady Golovkin at 160 lbs
Danny Garcia at 140 lbs
Adrien Broner at 135 lbs
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