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From the perspective of a real sport UFC belts hold no legitimacy whatsoever. UFC is a private company, it's not a sanctioning international globally recognized sport federation and is thus in no position to declare anyone as a "world champion" of anything. It has just about as much legitimacy as me declaring a random guy on the street "heavyweight champion of the world".
In boxing, you have the belts given out by legit major international sanctioning organizations like the WBA, IBF, WBC and WBO. Now you can argue that there's corruption in these organizations but individual cases of corruption don't undermine the legitimacy of a system as such. Many football fans say that organizations like UEFA and FIFA are corrupt but they don't argue against the very existence of these organizations. It's a case of corruption existing in a legit system.
In the UFC however the system itself is corrupt from the very beginning.
For example you had Bob Arum supposedly paying bribes to IBF to manipulate the rankings. Well in the case of the UFC Bob Arum (Dana White) is the IBF, he is in charge of the rankings and is handing out the titles. So what's a despicable case of corruption in boxing is basically daily reality in the UFC.
A private company that only has one purpose and that's to make money has absolutely no business handing out sport titles or creating some sort of rankings. It's a clear conflict of interest. It's especially ridiculous because the UFC doesn't even co-promote and their fighters aren't fighting anyone outside of UFC. That's why MMA isn't a legitimate sport and boxing is. Those make-believe belts in the UFC are completely worthless other than being a marketing tool. It was always like this and always will be. At best those guys are the champions of the UFC, a showbiz company like WWE.
In boxing, you have the belts given out by legit major international sanctioning organizations like the WBA, IBF, WBC and WBO. Now you can argue that there's corruption in these organizations but individual cases of corruption don't undermine the legitimacy of a system as such. Many football fans say that organizations like UEFA and FIFA are corrupt but they don't argue against the very existence of these organizations. It's a case of corruption existing in a legit system.
In the UFC however the system itself is corrupt from the very beginning.
For example you had Bob Arum supposedly paying bribes to IBF to manipulate the rankings. Well in the case of the UFC Bob Arum (Dana White) is the IBF, he is in charge of the rankings and is handing out the titles. So what's a despicable case of corruption in boxing is basically daily reality in the UFC.
A private company that only has one purpose and that's to make money has absolutely no business handing out sport titles or creating some sort of rankings. It's a clear conflict of interest. It's especially ridiculous because the UFC doesn't even co-promote and their fighters aren't fighting anyone outside of UFC. That's why MMA isn't a legitimate sport and boxing is. Those make-believe belts in the UFC are completely worthless other than being a marketing tool. It was always like this and always will be. At best those guys are the champions of the UFC, a showbiz company like WWE.
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