Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez 4 winner gets phony WBO Champion of the Decade award honors

The winner of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez 4 fight this December will receive a special "champion of the decade" title or award from the WBO. Why there's a need for this, or why the fighters even agreed to it, is beyond me. Credit: Rafael Soto/ Zanfer Of course, sorting through the messy alphabet soup of sanctioning bodies, and distinguishing between champions, titleholders and the rest, is as convoluted as it gets in boxing.  It's also a major source of frustration for fans, and a turn-off for would be fans who simply can't make sense of it all. The WBC has their shiny new "Diamond Belts", while the WBA regularly has three "champions" in one division - a Super champion, a Regular champion, and an Interim champion. Well, the WBO apparently didn't want to be left out in the cold any longer. More likely though, they didn't want to miss out on their chance to collect a 3% sanctioning fee from a fight that will rake in te...