The World Boxing Association (WBA) continues to make decisions moving forward in line with its intention to have only one world champion per category.
To date, the light heavyweight (Dmitry Bivol), super welterweight (Jermell Charlo), super featherweight (Roger Gutierrez), super bantamweight (Murodjon Akhmadaliev), bantamweight (Naoya Inoue) and flyweight (Artem Dalakian) categories all have a single champion. The situation of the super lightweight, whose title is vacant, was also resolved.
On the other hand, on July 10, Hiroto Kyoguchi and Esteban Bermudez will face each other in Mexico, which will leave the minimum division also with a single champion. At super flyweight, Juan Francisco “Gallo” Estrada will face Joshua Franco on July 16 to determine the sole champion. The fight between Leo Santa Cruz and Leigh Wood was also ordered, which will leave the featherweight division with only one champion.
The WBA will continue to advance in its plan and the Championships Committee will make the pertinent decisions to continue advancing the plan that began in August of last year.
Kyoguchi – Bermudez is light flyweight. I’m still wondering what they’re going to do about middleweight. Lara – Eubank should be the fight they make but no one ever mentions anything about it and they both continue to fight like lower level opponents. Also straw weight is a matter between Niyomtrong and Rosa.
Good progress!
Yes, but they should not be overly
Congratulated for the mess they created.
Agree.
Yeah, sure. Any fool who believes this is jut part of the game.
I’m sure that the WBA got pushback from the other Alphabet boys when they have their group meetings. To give them credit, they said that before a few years ago and did nothing. This time we see things happen and they are open about it. Let’s see, but I do see your point. The WBA’s actions (or non-actions) can make us cynical.
Having eighteen divisions solves their “problem” of too many champions.
Was this written by Fightnews or the WBA? I’ll guess the latter.e