What is the difference between a "Boxing Champion" and a "boxing titlest".?
I ask this question in a sincere effort to educate the many who's hero worship of certain notable recent fighters provoke repeated question's comparing a few famous boxers with the historical greats. Rather than continuously answer the same foolish questions over and over again, I hope to stir some serious debate on the subject.
Great points Stephen, the discussion is beginning.
At the risk of allowing my opinion to color future answers, title's are bestowed or won, even "championship titles", but a "champion" is a born.
Let's consider some actual headings:
* Lineal title - "the man who beat the man who..." The problem with that is that it throws up some odd anomalies. Was Shannon Briggs really the HW champion at the time he lost to Lewis? That's what the lineal championship would imply. And what do you do when the lineal champion steps down without losing his title in the ring, as Lewis did later?
* Alphabet soup title - may mean simply the man whose promoter got him ranked #1 by one of the four corrupt title organisations who beat the man whose promoter didn't get his choice of judges.
* Ring title - the champion as selected by a group of knowledgeable though largely American journalists for a magazine owned by Oscar dela Hoya, who as a promoter would have no conflict of interest, no sirree...
IMO when the Ring title coincides with the lineal title, then the fighter has the best claim to be called the champion.
But you can't resolve the issue easily - for example, the Calzaghe-Hopkins fight was generally regarded as the "true" LHW championship, but Zsolt Erdei, who is almost entirely unknown in the US, is still the linear champion depending on how you plot the succession after Michael Spinks stepped down.
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