Another Crock Of Bulls%#t
By Coyote Duran (Feb 14, 2007) Doghouse Boxing (Photo © Everlast)
The content and opinions expressed in the following article do not reflect the thoughts and opinions of Doghouse Boxing.com in general. Coyote just off and snapped.

Wow. It certainly doesn’t take long for a broken heart to heal, now does it?

And in the spirit of the upcoming observation of St. Valentine’s Day, it’s only fitting that the International Boxing Federation would show their love to The Ring World Junior Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton by handing over his
simply ornamental crap strap to Lovemore N’dou, if for nothing but N’Dou’s recent TITLE ELIMINATION win over fellow Aussie Naoufel Ben Rabah. Didja get that? ‘Title elimination’? No ‘interim’ strap. No vacancy-filling fight. Not even a reach-around to make Hatton feel better. And although, Hatton didn’t have a choice in the matter but to defend immediately against the winner of the N’dou-Ben Rabah fight, N-dou gets a generous SIX months to defend against Demetrius Hopkins. It just gets better and better and better…..

And where’s the surprise factor anymore? There might have been a time (Probably a reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa-ee-huh-huh-he-ee-aallllly long time ago, if I can paraphrase Dr. Perry Cox from ‘Scrubs’, please. Thank you! I LOVE that show!) when a sanctioning body actually made a teeny-tiny little mistake in judgment and then suddenly owned up to it and actually FELT SORRY for such a glorified f__k up and genuinely wanted to make-up for it…but now? It’s almost like a badge of honor. A competition, of sorts, for sanctioning groups to ‘out-f__k-up’ each other in order to see how much the fans will accept or just flat-out let go in order to just see one boxing match that they might wanna see because two really good fighters just happened to either be said sanctioning body’s numbers one and two contenders or number one and so-called champion against each other. Well, thanks a Goddamn lot, pals and gals. Thanks a lot for continuing to snow the faithful.

Jag-offs.

Y’ know what? Why are we concentrating so much on bringing down our beloved alphabet groups when we can lift them for their subtlety in choosing favorites?! I mean, they do give a damn about CERTAIN fighters, right? If they didn’t then why hasn’t the ‘World’ Boxing Council assigned an ‘interim’ titlist to fill in for the obviously-absent Oscar De La Hoya since he deep-sixed Ricardo Mayorga on May 6 of LAST YEAR but assigned an immediate ‘interim’ designation to the winner of the Shane Mosley-Luis Collazo welterweight fight just LAST SATURDAY when Floyd Mayweather Jr. just beat REAL Welterweight World Champion Carlos Baldomir just LAST NOVEMBER. But that’s OK. Baldomir wasn’t gonna ever stick around as a prominent World Champion, let alone titleholder, right? So why not give the little provisions to either heavy-hitter, right? No ‘interim’ guy to horn in on De La Hoya’s game while waiting for Floyd and while Floyd’s waiting for his fight with Oscar, there’s a guy to bat clean-up for Mayweather. Boxing’s equivalent of a tattoo parlor’s ‘Shop Bitch’, if you will.

Yes!! Consistency and common sense! “Optimization of performances for fairness”, in President Jose Sulaiman’s own words!

Yeah. Right.

And need I even detail the WBC’s willingness to turn the other cheek when it comes to ‘champions emeritus’ like former Ring World Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko’s proposal to buy off number one contender Samuel Peter’s shot at current titlist Oleg Maskaev for $2,500,000. Peter’s saying no now, but what if the Sulaimacchiavellian’s override him and give Dr. Klitschko the go ahead anyway? Would it surprise you at all? And just to make your head spin (speaking of the ridiculous, ridiculous ‘champion emeritus’ designation), if former WBC featherweight titlist Erik Morales decided to make the very unlikely drop back to 126 today, he could immediately claim his shot at current titlist In Jin Chi because, adhering to the WBC’s logic regarding the ‘champion emeritus’, Morales gained the honorific when vacating the 126-pound strap after defending against Bobby Boy Velardez nearly four years ago. Is Morales fit to even fight at 130 right now? You do the math. Would the WBC stop him from dropping to 126 to fill their pockets with blood-covered gold? Probably not.

And yet, still, we encounter so many babbling Mouseketeers who INSIST that the alphabet groups are necessary and needed because the belts make the fights. Well, I’ve got news for you, Cubby, Annette, Nita, Spin, Marty, Moe, Curly, Harpo: The WBC doesn’t care. The IBF doesn’t care. The WBA doesn’t care. The IBA doesn’t care. The IBO doesn’t care. None of them Goddamn care and the sooner you all come to grips with that, the better.

Use your heads. When an organization calls itself ‘non-profit’ but REQUIRES you to sign away sanctioning fees and (in some organizations) service fees (Go ahead. Call me out. I’ll provide you the links), then how does the organization stay viewed as a ‘strictly not-for-profit establishment? I’ll tell you when: NEVER. This has zero and zip to do with administration fees which, without question, help make the corporate world go ‘round. If you cared, you’d go straight to The Ring magazine and live guilt-free instead of nuthugging an alphabet group only to feel guilty in the morning when the beer goggles are clearly off and the ‘world championship’ buzz has worn off.

If you don’t care or you think The Ring has no place determining rankings and who should hold a World Championship, then quit your bitching and find a better way. Until then, tell Gilberto, Jose, Marian, Dean and Ed that I said “Hi.” and that I’m actually waving with THAT one special finger.

You know the one.

Wake up, friends, fans and Howlers. It’s time to speak up, take a stand and actually follow through since Graciano Rocchigiani didn’t.

And let’s shut these worthless bastards down once and for all.


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