This applies particularly to the heavyweights.
There's no such thing as the 'linear title'.
That notion is based on the idea of 'the man who beat the man.'
That would work if every champ beat the guy before him, but in the case of the heavyweight division, two guys retired undefeated as heavyweight champ: Gene Tunney and Rocky Marciano.
Logic thus dictates that from Tunney onwards, it has always been the 'consensus' champ that is the legitimate one.
Am I wrong?
2006-09-28
19:28:21
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