Two important purse bids for WBA mandatory fights will take place on Thursday in Miami, Florida.
The first will be the heavyweight title between champion Trevor Bryan and champion in recess Mahmoud Charr at 11:00 a.m. local time, which will be followed by the welterweight title between super champion Yordenis Ugas and his mandatory challenger Eimantas Stanionis.
Both bouts were ordered with the intention of furthering the WBA’s world title reduction plan and pit well-ranked fighters against each other in fights that are competitive and of interest to the public.
Heavyweight is one of the categories in which the pioneering body has been focusing on and the Bryan-Charr fight will help to have one less champion. At welterweight, the winner of Ugas-Stanionis will face Radzhab Butaev soon to define a single champion at 147 pounds.
Canelo wil fight for wba title
I would think that if you give a damn about your career, despite the fact that he’s your promoter, if you’re Trevor Bryan you have to be hoping that someone besides Don King wins this bid.
And if I’m Ugas, I’m vacating. The Spence fight won’t be as attractive on paper, because there won’t be three belts on the line, but you can’t afford to have your entire 2022 tied down fighting both of those fights. He’ll be favored against each of them, but I wouldn’t be shocked if Stanionis or Butaev managed to outhustle him and get a decision. They’re going on 28, Ugas is going on 36.
If Ugas vacates it means he doesn’t get the Spence fight. Thats why Spence and Paq was matched in the first place.
Looks like Ugas will have to win this tourney and take the extra-long road to unification.
Pacquiao technically didn’t have a belt when he was scheduled to fight Spence. He had already gotten demoted by the WBA to ‘champion in recess’, so it wasn’t going to be a unification, just a big fight. I think this would be the same, certainly not to that level, but the biggest fight that can be made outside of Spence – Crawford. And if it doesn’t happen, we know what Ugas is going to do, but I don’t know where that leaves Spence, unless he does fight Crawford, whoever he fights won’t be a champion.
Anyway, it does seem like you’re right though because I just read that Ugas and Stanionis agreed to terms to fight.
PBC isn’t matching Ugas with Spence they don’t care about Ugas so he just needs to keep winning to get some paydays. PBC will pick up Crawford to fight Spence then Spence goes to 154.
hard to not laugh when you see important and ‘Trevor Bryan and champion in recess Mahmoud Charr’ in the same story
“WBA….heavyweight title between champion Trevor Bryan and champion in recess Mahmoud Charr”
– This is for a WBA Heavyweight title and I have never heard of these fighters.
Bryan-Charr. An early Christmas present for us boxing fans. Going with Bryan here, who I think is actually a decent fighter, but a Charr victory provides the possibility of another cartwheel, which would be awesome.
The world is definitely a much better place with another Charrwheel.
You know, the idea of who would actually win the fight never entered my mind, but Bryan does seem the better pick. I think I was more focused on if it would ever actually come off. DK has a card in January with Makabu and Mchunu, I think it’s highly unlikely he’d do two in the same year and the last time Bryan – Charr went to bid, he literally won by a million dollars.
@Lucie Understandable how the potential winner here could be just an afterthought. This is one of those very rare fights where the business side of it might actually overshadow the fight itself, especially with the whole Bryan-Charr-Stiverne situation last time around. Hopefully for Bryan’s/Charr’s sake this fight actually comes off. Hate seeing King shelve these guys for long stretches. These guys have bills to pay like the rest of us…
The Bryan-Charr winner gets Fres Oquendo.
Ugas vs. Stanionis has barn burning potential. Stanionis is a hard nail/hard out with solid skills. I am not sure if Ugas can deal with Stanionis’ pressure, body attack and sturdy jabs. Thus far, if a fight occurs, I favor Stanionis to win by late TKO.
Bryan-Charr ugggggggggg