Why do Bellator and the PFL (Watching PFL event now) refer to their title fights as "World Championships"?

[Leonard Haid]

Their title fights are organization championships, not championships of the entire world, a determination of who is the best in that org, not in the entire world. Maybe the UFC can get away with "world championship", but Bellator and PFL?

 

[kfighter]

UFC got the weakest set of fighters

 

[Mammothman]

Winning those belts its like winning the TNA or AWE belts, cute accolades but everybody knows the only world champ is the one that wins the wwe belt, in this case the UFC belt.

Only boxing have world titles at the same level with the organization boddies.

I guess PFL, ONE, etc need to call them world champs to sell their events but honestly it sounds corny AF because even casual knows they are not "world champs"

 

[italiamusica]

Isn't it like that with a lot of sports? Like World series champs, when it's just North America playing?

 

[Paolo Delutis]

Their title fights are organization championships, not championships of the entire world, a determination of who is the best in that org, not in the entire world. Maybe the UFC can get away with "world championship", but Bellator and PFL?

Every title is apparently the world title...

Its just wording guy

 

[Yep]

Isn't it like that with a lot of sports? Like World series champs, when it's just North America playing?

Well to be fair it is World Series champs ( like you said) which isn’t world champs in baseball. There is actually a world champion in baseball. Being Japan of course right now.

Not sure why any of the championships from any fighting org gets to use that world champion moniker without criticism.

 

[Greg House]

Bellator champs are just as good as UFC champs though. Eblen and Nemkov would be favorites against Strickland and Pereira in the betting odds. Just because you an UFC shill doesn't mean there aren't good fighters outside the UFC. They may not be as big as them, but they have the quality. If UFC can say it, then everyone else can.

 

[cburm]

Their title fights are organization championships, not championships of the entire world, a determination of who is the best in that org, not in the entire world. Maybe the UFC can get away with "world championship", but Bellator and PFL?

Because theyl fight the best no matter what org the ufc is to scared

 

[OldFashion]

UFC got the weakest set of fighters

 

[Sweater of AV]

Their title fights are organization championships, not championships of the entire world, a determination of who is the best in that org, not in the entire world. Maybe the UFC can get away with "world championship", but Bellator and PFL?

 

[Sweater of AV]

Lol at the cans in this thread thinking that the UFC has the best fighters.

 

[Sticko]

Their title fights are organization championships, not championships of the entire world, a determination of who is the best in that org, not in the entire world. Maybe the UFC can get away with "world championship", but Bellator and PFL?

Because they are not considered regional promotions and they recruit fighters from all over the world.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

The same reason why I can make a world title.

You can call a title anything you want, it is just up to others to recognize it. This is literally how every title works in the world regardless if it is from a promotion or sanctioning body.

 

[Van Daz]

Their title fights are organization championships, not championships of the entire world, a determination of who is the best in that org, not in the entire world. Maybe the UFC can get away with "world championship", but Bellator and PFL?

KOTC probably did the same? Makes the brand sound more special & prestigious. Cage Warriors probably do that, too.

Like miss world & miss universe. Just for the title. Doesn't mean that a chick on earth is hotter than any chick in the universe.


Hot chicks on a flat Earth in another universe???? MMMMM

 

[SokoudjouFanboy]

In boxing world title belts gained credibility by who held the titles. The only reason the same isn't true of Bellator titles is because of the structure of the sport. Many people will give credit to nobody but the UFC champ and that's bad for the sport.

 

[skylolow]

They are promoter and the job is promoting your promotion as the best in the world.