I want to touch on a subject near and dear to my heart today: The deplorable state of the sport of boxing.

Last Saturday night a man named Deontay Wilder defeated Bermane Stiverne to become Heavyweight Champion of the World. Sort of. Well, not really at all, actually. I'm not sure anyone alive considers Deontay to be champion other than Deontay himself.

It wasn't that long ago when pretty much everyone could name the heavyweight champion: Frazier, Foreman, Ali (of course!), Holmes. I bet when Ali was reigning 90 to 95 percent of Americans would have identified him as champion. How many Americans today could name the true heavyweight champion? I would bet less than 5%. And even that might be pushing it.

That is partly because there are no fewer than four men claiming the current title. The WBA itself recognizes three! They recognize a super champion, who has the overall heavyweight title, but then the WBA must have its own champion along with that super champion. And then for some reason they also recognize something called the "interim" heavyweight champion. (Which leads me to believe the folks running the WBA have no idea what the word "interim" means...they just like the way it sounds.)

The situation is worse for the middleweights. That proud division of Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano and Marvin Hagler has no less than six champions at the moment.

Every sport expands. Some of you readers will remember when Major League Baseball consisted of 16 teams, eight per league. The top two teams in each league would meet in the World Series without any sort of playoff system. Now there are 30 MLB teams and eight of them make the playoffs. Football, basketball and hockey have seen similar expansion. But here's the thing. There is still only one World Series. Still only one Super Bowl. And only one team emerges as champion.

Imagine for a moment that instead of one Super Bowl each year we had three. (Or four. Or five.) Let's have Green Bay play New England in one. Baltimore vs. Seattle in another. And in still another how about Denver vs. Minnesota. Yeah, I know the Vikings don't really belong, but hey it's been so long since they've seen a Super Bowl and that match up would really sell!

As silly as that situation seems, that is exactly what goes on in boxing! So many fighters fighting for so many championships that no one really cares anymore.

Boxing needs to get it's act together. Literally. One champ per division. If something doesn't change in boxing soon, the sport is doomed.

Oh, and PS. The one true Heavyweight Champion of the World is Wladmir Klitschko. Sorry Deontay.