What is the difference between WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF championships in boxing?
Nothing. In the old days, WBA and WBC, and later, IBF were the so-called prestigious boxing bodies. Today, all these sanctioning bodies, even the 2 older ones, WBC and WBA, have lost their prestige that’s why their merely referred to as alphabet soup titles. Boxing has become too much of a money-making sport that there are so many boxing organizations peddling title belts to mediocre fighters. Nowadays, you gauge an elite fighter by his box-office appeal, that is, whether people come and pay to watch him. Look at Manny Pacquiao, he currently holds only the lesser known IBO junior-welterweight and WBO welterweight belts. But he’s considered the best in the world and millions come to see him fight.
