When Miguel Cotto fights Manny Pacquiao Nov. 14, Cotto's welterweight alphabet title belt won't be up for grabs, Cotto has decided. If it sticks, the move will spoil Pacquiao's question for an unprecedented seventh title in a seventh division (sort of -- I'll explain at the end).
But no matter. Whether Pacquiao wins another WBO, IBF, WBC, WBA or belt, he's already broken the record for winning the only championships that count in my book. Pacquiao, you see, has won four lineal titles in four different divisions. No one in boxing history, not legends like Roberto Duran or anyone, has done that. He won those lineal titles by either beating the man who had it or by beating the top man in his division other than him to win a vacant championship. That is far more impressive than whether he beat someone who inherited his belt via the phony, greedy, political methodology of the alphabet sanctioning organizations.
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Source: queensberry-rules.com
By: Tim Starks
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