BOXER RANKINGS TITLE POLICY

Why Doesn’t Boxing Base Consider all Title Belts in Your Boxer Rankings?

The staff at Boxing Base do recognize and value all title belts, no matter their sanctioning body or division, and we congratulate all fighters who capture them.

However, due to the rising number of titles in contemporary boxing, also known as boxing’s ‘alphabet soup’, we have decided to avoid ‘champion status confusion’ by mentioning only the ‘major’ world titles in our Boxing Rankings – consisting of the ‘Super’ and ‘Regular’ variety. We do not consider titles such as ‘Interim’ and ‘Silver’.

For example, fighters and bouts featured in our Boxing News, Results, Schedules and Boxer Rankings, etc, will generally be mentioned alongside these ‘major’ titles only. For example, our #3 ranked Junior Welterweight fighter, John Contender, may have captured the WBC Silver World Championship, and our #2 fighter, Bob Contender, may have captured the WBC World Championship; only the WBC World Championship title would be listed.

Again, this decision is not to discredit Bob Contender’s achievement in capturing the ‘Silver’ variety – it is merely to avoid confusion and be of benefit to our Boxing Base readers.

If you disagree with this policy and or have a suggestion, please get in touch with our boxing staff writers right here at Boxing Base, or on Facebook/Twitter.

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