What does undisputed champion in boxing mean?

Question

What does undisputed champion in boxing mean?

Answer 1

undisputed champ means you hold all titles in your wieght

Answer 2

it means he is unbeaten, no one can say otherwise that he isnt the chapion, no one is supposed to beat them

Answer 3

Simply put. . . . you must hold the championship title, as recognized by the WBA, WBC, and IBF.  Usually, but not always, the RING Magazine title goes along with this "undisputed" title, which is the only true "linear" title left, meaning a fighter has beaten the man who was formerly considered champion.  

I used to rely more heavily on the RING belts, since the concept of "beating the man who beat the man" makes sense (in a world of unicorns and rainbows). . . that is, until, a guy like Joel Casamayor holds onto his RING belt for a crazy long amount of time due to inactivity.  Since RING belts can only be lost in the ring or if a fighter retires, it leaves a lot of open areas.  

***By the way, a fighter can have losses AND be the undisputed champion. . .you don't have to be undefeated to be the best in the world.  Look at Pacquiao.

ALSO:  Countee. . . you have a great answer (probably the best), but you made one small mistake.  You CAN become undisputed champion by DQ, as Montell Griffin of Chicago did when Roy Jones was disqualified for hitting Griffin while he was on one knee.  True, Roy came back and gave Griffin a real thrashing, lasting about one minute in their rematch.  But fact is fact, and Griffin was the undisputed lightheavy champion for a few months due to a DQ.

Answer 4

It means the current reigning champion in all 3 belts.

Source : Wikipedia

In professional boxing, the term Undisputed Champion commonly refers to a boxer that currently holds the (WBC) World Boxing Council world championship, (IBF) International Boxing Federation world championship, and (WBA) World Boxing Association undisputed championship in his weight class. Many fighters today seek not to simply become a champion, but to become the “Undisputed Champion”, as that is the pinnacle of success within the sport

Answer 5

Undisputed Champion in boxing means the holder of all three division's titles of a weight class.  The best of the best.  Mike Tyson was an undisputed/undefeated champion for a good while, until Buster Douglass upset his reign.

Answer 6

it means no one has questioned that he is a champion

Answer 7

Yea I few people already gave the right answer, If you hold all 3 belts the WBC,WBC and the IBF you are considered the undisputed champion of the division.

Of course their are other belts out there too the WBO, WBU are two other titles. Frankly they are all bogus.

It works like this, A fighter has to pay the Organization (wbc,wba ext ext) a sanctioning fee, If that fighter refuses to pay the fee then the organization will strip him and basically give it to the highest bidder. Thats why they are all jokes.

John Ruiz is a perfect example of corruption, when he was with king, Don King always made donations and always paid the fee's to the organizations, so a Don King fighter does not have to be that good, in fact he could suck and not have fought anybody but the organization will take King's money and rank his guy #1. Then they expect the current champion to have to fight this bum which everyone knows is a joke, If he refuses to fight the paper ranked fighter and chooses to fight a tougher fighter worth more money then the organization will strip him of  his title and let the # 1 and # 2 guys fight for it. Its a total joke and thats why the belts mean nothing.

And also if you hold all 3 belts then you have to pay 3 separate sanctioning fee's. Its bull ****, its crooked and the fighters today have to start stepping up and saying "NO" im going to let the fans dictate who the champion is and they should all start only accepting the RING Magazine title.

Lennox Lewis was the last unified heavyweight champion in 2000 when he beat Evander Holyfield for Evanders WBA and IBF titles.Lewis already held the WBC which he took from Oliver McCall in their second fight in 1997.

Of course later that year Lewis refused to fight "Paper ranked" John Ruiz who's # 1 status for the WBC was paid for by..you guessed it..Don King. So because Lewis refused to fight Ruiz they took his title and let Evander and Ruiz fight for it again.

Thats how corrupt it is and why nobody should pay any attention to who holds the titles.

Barerra took a stand when after winning the WBC i think it was, when they awarded it to him in the ring he took and threw it into the crowd. Props to Barerra, class act.

Answer 8

A person who has all three belts once in their career.  

Sometimes the ring announcer will say the undisputed, undefeated champion of the world.  he means that, that boxer has three belts and is undefeated... if he is just the undisputed champion, that means that he use to have three belts at the same time... like former undisputed champion....  

Answer 9

It means that after he won the championship, he never fought again.

Answer 10

yeah, say you are a heavyweight boxer, well in this weight (and i think all other weights) there are 3 different bodies organising matches and therefore 3 belts you can win. If you have one of the belts you are a champion but as there might be 2 others being the champion you are not the 'undisputed champion' until you have beaten them and hold all 3 in the same weight class.  

Answer 11

First there is no offical rule book to a true undisputed champion so here it is for what is widely accepted

Undisputed means just that "non-disputed" Its different from lineal and unified champions and here is why

undisputed means that the champion of the weight division has unified the WBA,WBC,IBF belts by defeating(no DQ, no vacanted titles,stripped) the current holders and not having the previous champion retire undisputed.

EX ALI then frazier frazier was the disputed/lineal champion but untilhe beat ali he wasn't the undisputed.

lineal means that the champion is part of the lineage of champions but is not undisputed due to some technical reasons, but due to IBF and WBO formation in the last 26 years a lineal champion is harder because the ancestor champs never held the belts(ALI nor any champion before him ever had the IBF nor the WBO so they are not part of the lineage per se). So lineage is thrown out alot and it shouldn't be

Unified means that 2 of the major 4 belts have been unified so the champion is widely accepted(klitchko in heavyweight) but that is all. it doesn't mean much more than that.