The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee ordered a fight for the vacant WBA featherweight title between Otabek Kholmatov and Raymond Ford. Former champion Leigh Wood vacated the belt after his October 7 fight to move up a division, so the WBA called Kholmatov, ranked number one, and Raymond Ford, ranked number two in the division, to fight.
The camps will have 30 days to reach an agreement. If an agreement is not reached within the given period of time or if either party refuses to do so, the WBA may call the fight to auction with a 50% purse split for each contender.
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The WBA also ordered a featherweight eliminator fight between Victor Morales Jr. (5th rated) and Reynaldo Nunez (6th rated).
Otabek Kholmatov by TKO.
This FORD is going to CRASH.
I like Kholmatov, has a cool nickname too. They call him Bruce Lee.
Ford bad little dude.
Raymond Ford is a bad MoFo.
Kholmatov in 2!