Santa Cruz vacates WBA featherweight title

By Boxing Bob Newman

The WBA announced that they just received a letter from the PBC stating that WBA featherweight super champion Leo Santa Cruz is vacating his title effective immediately. Santa Cruz will be pursuing opportunities at super featherweight. This leaves Leigh Wood as the sole WBA champion, further advancing the association’s goals to reduce all 17 weight classes to a single WBA champ.

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  • Well done! Good for you LSC. Doing something the WBA should have done themselves years ago. Wood can go fight Lara, Martinez or whoever he wants as full champion.

    • As long as there are seventeen divisions nobody could keep track of all the champions anyway.

  • Santa Cruz doesn’t have much left at his age. I think last time he fought at 130 he was knocked out by Davis. Not sure what big names are available.

    • PBC has Garcia there who is about to move up and fight Davis and Rey Vargas is fighting for one of Stevenson’s old belts. If he wins, they’ll have two.

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