BOXING CLEVER: Trade mag is standing up to sanctioning bodies turning sport into a joke

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Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Boxing is more about the ABCs than the one, two, threes these days.But Boxing News, the publication of record for the sport, is taking a stand against the sanctioning bodies who are making the sport a laughing stock.Fair play to them and it is badly needed someone said something.Currently there are six people at heavyweight who have a version of a world title.At super-featherweight there are nine.

Nine in one division.To their credit, not all nine will claim to be world champion but more than four do.There is the WBA, IBF, WBO and WBC when it comes to world titles in each weight class of the sport.That's more than enough as it is but then each body likes to bring out different versions.