Former WBA heavyweight champion Mahmoud Charr is still campaigning hard to land a fight with WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Fury says his December 3 opponent will be announced next week. Derek Chisora is reportedly the frontrunner.
Still no new opponent announced for two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez after Jessie Magdaleno pulled out of their October 29 clash with a training injury. The bout was slated to be the Loma-Ortiz co-feature.
The WBA continues to move forward toward its goal of having a single world champion per category and has so far managed to clear 10 of the 17 divisions via different decisions by the Championships Committee. Of the seven divisions remaining, three are already on track to have a single champion in the short term.
I’m not a fan of Charr. But, Fury did say on his own social media he would bless him with the fight if Joshua didn’t work out. I think you got to honor your words as a man and champion. I love Chisora as a warrior, but he already lost 2 times against Fury. Practice what you preach champ!
Yep, a fight with Chisora is nothing but a sparring match with a predictable ending. Personally, I feel it’s a joke.
Don’t know who is at fault re the Fury/AJ collapse but why is Fury fighting a guy who he’s convincingly beaten twice already. And a guy who has lost 3 of his last 4?
Why not Joe Joyce who beat Parker who in turn beat Chisora twice?
Is Joe Joyce ready for the fight? That may be a preferable match for the fans but his management team may want him to get a little more experience (and prize money) before getting him into the ring with Fury.
It’s a tune up fight. Which I agree with. DW has three years left and after some damaging fights back to back, he should take one to stay sharp while awaiting a big fight.
I’d rather see him in the ring with Charr than Chisora. Neither option actually interests me though.
I’m definitely not paying for either.
I think Fury probably just likes Chisora, personally, and wants to see him get a nice payday. For me, if the choices are Charr or Chisora, I’d rather him just wait until March or whenever it will be when Usyk is ready to go.
i believe that team fury tried their best to get Aj for this date. however, it would be nice if they can do a little better than Chisora or Charr.
I don’t know who to believe. Why did Fury place a deadline? Did Queensbury place it, or know that he was going to do that? We probably won’t ever know.
Bryan C.
because with no deadline, it could go on forever, and still not happen. they need time to negotiate with someone else to make a fight for that date.
seems team joshua has worn out their shoes from dragging their feet down the stretch
Otto Wallin fought at the end of May this year and he is a better choice than Chisora and Mahmoud Charr.
Not often we see a Trilogy when the first two firsts were uncompetitive. This is as cherry picking as cherry pickings get. His stock will go down if he fights Chisora. This is after falling out of negotiations with a guy with 2 straight loses.
For all the hate on Wilder at least he sought the toughest and best fights available.
Fury is more bad than good for the sport.
Lol have you seen Wilders list of best available. His biggest wins were Stiverne and Ortiz other than that he’s faced non ranked opponents. Fury has only faced maybe three worthy opponents. AJ has the best resume but came short in three of his last five or six.
Exactly, and who didnt he fight? He fought the top guys that were willing to give him a fight. AJ would have been on his resume too if he was willing.
I didnt write he had an all star resume. I wrote ” he sought the toughest and best fights available”. You will never rise above a mere prospect with responses like these 🙂
Vinny Maddalone is an option
Not a bad idea Z, but I did hear someone yell “Fres Oquendo!”
From Wiki:
“Vincent “Vinny” Maddalone (born December 29, 1973) is an American professional boxer who fights at heavyweight. He has fought former world champions Alfred Cole, Jean-Marc Mormeck, Tomas Adamek and Evander Holyfield. He has also faced current heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury.”
Single champion dosen’t mean much when you have a division for every three pounds.
Nice idea that the WBA is reducing titles. Now, what about reducing boxing organizations?
This is when boxing fans must endure the business side of boxing, Charr will never be champion, him and Robert Helenius and yet both get fights while better fighters sit idly and boxing fans feel cheated again.