People say Tank is not a 3 division champ due to the WBA"regular" title

[Larry the boss]

yet some of those same people claim GGG had over 20 title defenses..so which is it??? is the belt a legit title or not?

[Fists_of_Fury]

Bogus 3 weight champ and bogus title defense record /thread. Both should not count and be compared to real champions.

[Outwest Exp 355]

He’s not a 3 division champion. He’s a one division champion because his IBF 130 lb title he took off of Pedraza was his only real legit belt. It doesn’t matter though because he’s still the hottest young fighter in boxing and he’s got a lot of buzz right now.

[Larry the boss]

All I am saying is be consistent and not biased

[elfag]

bro look at the lineage of the wba "regular" its not the real belt. it dont count


GGG's 20 title defenses are different, he is just using his white privilege. What good is white privilege if youre not allow to use it for anything?

[Fists_of_Fury]

bro look at the lineage of the wba "regular" its not the real belt. it dont count


GGG's 20 title defenses are different, he is just using his white privilege. What good is white privilege if youre not allow to use it for anything?

"White privilege?" Does a mixed person of Russian and Korean descent have that? Or is that one of those "white adjacent" things?

[lopetego]

"White privilege?" Does a mixed person of Russian and Korean descent have that? Or is that one of those "white adjacent" things?

I've seen many white people declaring Canelo an ¨honorary white man? because he's just too good and his skin is light enough

I guess the same can be applied to GGG

too bad his superior russian genes got mixed with the weakass korean genes, otherwise he could be even stronger (and whiter) than he is

[Keysandboxing]

Its hard to say, because I thought Barrios was a good enough fighter to become a world champ at the weight, without fighting Taylor of course. But him fighting an ancient Gamboa to become a "world champion" just doesn't sit well with me.

[*Makaveli*]

Taylor is the undisputed champ at 140 , tank didn't beat the champ at the weekend so he is not a 3 division champion

[Boxing-1013]

Everything involving belts is pretty much BS because there are so many of them. People have to evaluate things as they see them, and simply winning a belt is not an indication of prowess or success.

I think there is a somewhat important distinction between the Tank case and GGG - GGG was pretty much the man at MW when he picked up that regular belt - you could at least make a good case that he was the number 1 MW in the world starting at that time, and going through his defense record.

Tank did a Canelo-Fielding move - moving up in weight to target a regular belt vs a weak (for that weight class) belt holder.

What everyone has to do is evaluate what wins a guy has, and not what belts etc they win. It's all about who you fought, what level they were at that time, and what you did vs them.

Barrios, all things considered, is a solid or very solid win for Tank. But acting like Tank is a legit belt holder at 140 right now is a stretch. I don't think it was a stretch to say GGG was a legit belt holder at 160 when he picked up his first belt.