WBA Statement: The World Boxing Association (WBA) reiterates the reduction of titles as announced a few weeks ago. For this reason, all interim titles have been eliminated, the gold titles are now ranked in the 2nd position of our ranking and several eliminator fights have been announced.
Therefore, we want to clarify, that even if bouts are promoted as “interim titles,” they do not have the approval of our Championships Committee.
I’m curious to see what they will do when they have a situation which legitimately warrants an interim champion. Someone gets a significant injury or moves up in weight or something happens and the WBA is sitting there scared to make an interim champion because they know how everyone else will react.
That would be kinda awesome.
You don’t need interim titles period. They should just be called the mandatory period. Stop with the bs…
You make an interim champion when you don’t know if the champion is coming back. If they’re gone and miss a mandatory period, you take the top available contenders and they fight each other, so they don’t have to do it again if the champion never comes back. It’s a situation that happens VERY rarely, but they do have value when used appropriately – at least in my opinion.
The “We Belt Anybody” boys have screwed up, ditching the one title you could make something resembling a case for (interim, albeit under extremely limited conditions), and keeping around idiocy like “Super Champions,” “Gold Champions,” and my new personal fave, the “Champion in Recess.” What a damned joke.
Well Champion is Recess has always been around but much like the interim champion was only used in rare occasions. The Gold title I don’t have a problem with since it’s not suppose to be a world title. The Gold Champion needs to the #1 contender and/or mandatory. What they need to eliminate is the Reg and Super Titles. 1 world title, a gold belt for the mando, and the interim ONLY due to injury (champion in recess) or while waiting on a champion that maybe moving up after winning a title in higher weight class.
Champion In Recess has always always been around? Not in the days when there was one champion per division and everyone knew who the champions were.
I wouldn’t be mad at them if they are in a situation that needs an interim champ, if it’s done properly and rarely done..