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Bets are on - Who will win and why do you think so?
Going to be a cracker?
Nate
Going to be a cracker?
Nate
Don't be boring Goatee...Usyk. He's better.
UD, so-so fight
Not too sure, but I'd imagine each 'variant' of a weight class will have its own belt, so each time one's added to the collection it counts as being crowned champion, i.e WBC, WBO etcOK boxing fans, maybe I've got this wrong but why the fuck does the sport talk up losers so frequently? Along the lines of "Joshua is attempting to become 3-time world champion..blah...spiel...bollocks..."
Like saying Ali was '5-time world champion'. So Marciano, 49-0-0 was merely a 'one-time world champion'?
Now I understand relinquishing titles for non-boxing reasons like Fury did once, or Ali once did.
But if you've been battered a few times and eventually win a title back, does that somehow carry more kudos than losing it in the first place?
Or does this illogical BS talk come from promoters and press sycophants trying to big up their supported fighter?
Perhaps Vladimir Klitschko who was champion for an 11-year stretch should've lost a couple of fights in the middle?
I am around.. lurking in the shadows...Old josh if he's changing the way he fights, funny enough I was wondering where you had been nate....
No, title defences don't count, nor do variants as if you hold one you are considered a world champion and that remains the same if you win another variant and you become a 'unified' WC and if you win the world title at different weights you're classed as a '2-weight world champion' not a two-time world champion. The term seems to specifically refer to those like AJ who lost it and won the same ones back again. Or Ali. Who lost 4 and regained it (in the ring) 4 times.Not too sure, but I'd imagine each 'variant' of a weight class will have its own belt, so each time one's added to the collection it counts as being crowned champion, i.e WBC, WBO etc
Perhaps also defences of a title count towards it, so thrashing opponents about that try to take your 'crown' tallies up the total. So defending your title e.g 11 times makes you 11-time world champion as it were?
But you're correct, in that attaining any sort of championship is heralded as the second coming of Frazier, when in reality the Heavyweight division's fairly mediocre these days (though slightly better in the last couple of years). I'd also imagine promoters going into overdrive to bill these as the greatest things since Moses parted the Red Sea, whereas years prior the boxing sort of did the talking.
Even if Joshua were to win, it'd be a hollow victory, as it sets a pattern of getting whupped first before winning the rematch, and it'd be the 2nd time he'd have taken that route. Surely the hallmark of a great champ would be to get the job done first time through whatever adversity, not keep pushing the reset button and hoping no one noticed his first loss