Why do people say Pacquiao is an 8 division champion?

[MayweatherisTBE]

He never won belts at 126 or 140. What am I missing?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Looks like 8 to me

 

[treelo]

He never won belts at 126 or 140. What am I missing?

WBC World Fly
IBF Super Bantam
WBC Super Feather
WBC Lightweight
WBO Welter
WBC Super Welter


Featherweight, he didn't win
Also the fight against Hatton wasn't for a proper title

Just marketing talk, I don't really see anyone who cares about it other than the admin on this site(it seems)

 

[mozfonky]

Common in the fight world, however many he won, it's unprecedented so far as I know in terms of all the weight skipping. I've only ever heard of fighters starting at maybe that much weight and winning one title at a higher one, never heard of a guy winning that many along the way as the grow. If that was the case, maybe Sugar Ray Robinson would have won the lightweight title, or Willie Pastrano would have won 4 or 5 on his way to the LHW championship. It's certainly an accomplishment even in the era of fractured divisions. I was thinking the other day how Alexis Arguello swore that no one would ever go 4 divisions after he failed, now, many have even though most of those aren't against the strongest of champions or in the strongest of divisions. The addition of all the other divisions outside of the old fashioned 8 divisions also helps these guys.

 

[Seano]

Common in the fight world, however many he won, it's unprecedented so far as I know in terms of all the weight skipping. I've only ever heard of fighters starting at maybe that much weight and winning one title at a higher one, never heard of a guy winning that many along the way as the grow.

True but half those weight classes didn't exist for much of boxings history.

 

[Mujeriego]

He never won belts at 126 or 140. What am I missing?

He won The Ring titles at those weight classes.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

What Pac did was really impressive but the lower weights are only separated by a few pounds nowadays. Without the introduction of the tweener divisions (junior & super weight classes) Pac would only have about half as many divisional world titles. Back when there were only 8 weight classes Henry Armstrong won world titles in 3 full divisions (feather, lightweight & welter) and I believe he came close to a 4th (middleweight). I always thought what Roy did was just as special as Pac. He fought as low as junior middleweight and picked up 4 divisional world titles from middleweight to heavyweight (excluding cruiser).

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

One thing that really annoys me is how the media constantly compares womens' accomplishments to their male contemporaries. Technically Amanda Serrano has won more divisional world titles than Oscar (7 vs 6) but that's purely statistical. Most of them were vacant titles that she won but more importantly women's boxing still has an extremely small talent pool. Women's MMA hasn't been around nearly as long, and it lacks Olympic recognition, but it's well ahead of women's boxing thanks to the UFC and other major MMA promotions having pushed it into the mainstream over a decade ago. It's a joke to compare women to the men in boxing and yet they continue to do it to get clicks.

Shields had previously been compared to Lomachenko for winning 2 Olympic gold medals, and for how quickly she won her world titles in the pros, now they're also looking to attach her name to Usyk's if she becomes undisputed in a second weight class. Ridiculous.

Claressa Shields can match Oleksandr Usyk's achievement by becoming an undisputed heavyweight champion