Uzbekistan’s former IBF and WBA super bantamweight world champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev (12-1, 9 KOs) attempts to become a two-time world champion when he takes on Mexican knockout artist Ricardo Espinoza Franco (30-4, 25 KOs) for the interim WBA super bantamweight world title on Saturday at the Salle Des Étoiles at Sporting Monte Carlo shown live worldwide on DAZN. This is today’s first fight week face-off.
Does winning an interim title count to becoming a world champ?
They can fool clueless Monte Carlo gamblers and suckers but not bullshit readers of a boxing website/platform with that nonsense
According to Boxrec Franco is ranked 67th in the world amongst “super bantamweights”.
All these ridiculous light weight divisions. “Super bantamweight” is just 3 pounds more than “super flyweight” and 4 pounds less than something called “super featherwight”.
How about making a championship belt for each separate pound, like
the “102 pound world champion!”? Then they could sell hundreds of championship fights.
Super fly 115
Bantam 118
Super bantam 122
Feather 126
Super feather 130
They both are 122
I don’t know what’s your point???
The Mexican is ranked 67th according you but they taking the Mexican for murodjon to train with him
Any boxer who needs polish his body or his boxing needs to fight a Mexican taxi driver
“I don’t know what’s your point???”
My point is there are way too many light weight divisions each with their accompanying “world champion” so their fights can be advertised as a world championship fight, even if it’s someone who is not ranked in the top 66. 3 or 4 pounds between divisions!
Then u have light heavyweight encompassing only 7 pounds, 168-175.
On the other hand there are not enough heavy weight divisions, someone just over 200 in the same division as guys outweighing him by 50, 100, sky’s the limit, pounds (not counting their bridgerweight division which is stupidly named but a step in the right direction).
Boxing weight classes are obsolete and nonsensical and should be totally revamped on a percentage basis, say each weight division a certain percent higher than the one below it, and adding superheavy and another one since there are many athletic giants around these days whereas heavyweights used to be mostly in the 180’s.
MJ lost his chance at Inoue by losing to Tapales. If he loses this one, he’ll never get another one.