Lineal championship For example, George Foreman was considered lineal champion from 1994 until 1997, when Shannon Briggs beat him. After the WBA and IBF stripped him of their titles in 1995, Foreman fought only two, low-ranked opponents before Briggs. The lineal champion is not necessarily the boxer viewed as the best. Cyber Boxing Zone and BoxingScene considered Zsolt Erdei the lineal light-heavyweight champion from his 2004 defeat of Julio César González until 2009, when he vacated his title and moved up to cruiserweight; as he had not fought the highest-ranked opponents in the interim, Cliff Rold conceded, "while the concept of a
Shannon Ritch Champion in bare knuckle boxing and ranked as high as the #2 heavyweight bare knuckle fighter in the UK. He plans to round out his professional boxing career in 2018 against boxing superstar Bobby Gunn. Shannon had a bare knuckle fight in 2018 for the BKB promotion in the UK against Jack Draper at BKB 6 hosted at the O2 Arena, losing in the second round after a controversial TKO and coming in with a 25-3 record. Ritch is set to fight again in bare knuckle boxing in 2019 for the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championships at BKFC 4 against Omar