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Lineal championship is the theoretical title meant to represent a singular "true" Champion in a particular weight class division in combat sports such as professional boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts (MMA). Within each combat sport there are different sanctioning bodies and promotion organizations which name and recognize their own champions. This creates a scenario where, within each sport, there may be multiple competitors recognized as "champion," per weight division. These different organizations also maintain the right to arbitrarily strip a title from a champion for reasons other than the win/loss results of a competition in the ring or cage (e.g., contractual disputes, suspensions). The Lineal championship title is intended to negate this. Rather than having an "alphabet soup"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BoxRec Alphabet soup )〕 of champions and rather than adhering to the inclinations of one particular organization over another, the premise of the lineal championship is to base the championship title on the actual win/loss results of a competition and maintain a singular direct line of championship title succession. ==History== The concept of a lineal champion was developed by boxing experts dissatisfied by the tendency of each of the various sanctioning bodies (WBC, WBA, IBF, etc.) to recognize different champions, and in particular to strip a champion of his title for refusing to fight its top-ranked contender. Prior to the 1970s, this rarely happened; the National Boxing Association (NBA) and the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) sometimes recognized different champions, but there was usually only a short interval before one champion defeated the other. In this era, a title vacancy was generally filled by having a single-elimination tournament box-off between two or more top-ranked contenders. The idea is in contrast to that of a "paper champion," or a champion recognized as such by contrived means or circumstances. Several top boxers have specified holding the lineal championship as a personal accomplishment (''e.g.'' Lennox Lewis) or goal (''e.g.'', Nate Campbell). In MMA the lineal championship is of particular relevance due to the fact that the each promotion organization names their own champions and are restrictive in allowing competitors to compete cross-promotionally, resulting in multiple champions recognized by various promotions. Thus the need for a lineal championship title. Up until the early 2010's most of the top ranked fighters were spread out among multiple MMA promotions. This included Japanese promotions such as Pride Fighting Championships, Pancrase, and Dream as well as US based promotions such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), EliteXC, World Extreme Cage Fighting (WEC), Strikeforce, and Bellator MMA. Currently, the significance of the Lineal championship is best illustrated by the disputed Light Heavyweight championship title. Former UFC champion, Jon Jones, was suspended and stripped of the title for reasons resulting from an alleged hit and run felony charge. Daniel Cormier, whom Jones had just defeated, subsequently won the vacant UFC title. However, because Cormier's UFC championship is a contrivance and Jones' didn't lose in competition, the consensus of MMA aficionados regard the current UFC champion as a "paper champion" and Jones, the reigning Lineal Light Heavyweight champion, as the "true" champion. UFC fighter Donald Cerrone holds this lineal title after beating the former Bellator MMA lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez in 2014.〔http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/williamstake/article_17024.shtml〕 Cerrone has been promised the next title shot against current UFC champion Rafael dos Anjos.〔(UFC informs Donald Cerrone that he's next for a title shot, and he'll have to wait on Rafael dos Anjos - MMAFighting )〕 Barring a draw or No Contest, this fight will result in the unification of the lineal title with the UFC title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lineal championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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