![]() There are other things to be learned from this, too. That’s not always the case, but that and past editions of this list do suggest there’s a tendency. #2 match-ups would qualify as one of, if not the, best fights in the division. Looking into the next year at the vacant crowns, there are three divisions where the #1 and #2 almost certainly will not meet to establish a new lineage one where at least one side wants to get it on another where there’s a plausible scenario whereby a vacancy could be filled and the remainder are made up of scenarios where it could happen, but it doesn’t seem to be on the map at all.Īnd then there are some situations where the championship could change hands.Įxamining the vacancies, a large number of the #1 vs. That’s more than you might expect in a sport where the two major promoters haven’t been working together, and where now that they might, one of them is split in half by internal divisions. There are currently eight lineal champions per the Board, for a vacancy rate of just below 50 percent. As a chair and founder of that Board, I thought it best to give the annual list for this site a break for a bit. There was a controversial o verhaul of the policy by Ring Magazine, the long-accepted custodians of championship lineage, and the creation of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board as a result. It’s been a few years since we last went through this exercise of looking at the lineal championship (aka real champs, as explained here) picture in every division, partially because a major thing has changed since then. (June 7, New York City: Miguel Cotto reacts after a TKO against Sergio Martinez in the 10th round of the middleweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden.
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