The WBC Board of governors has ruled to cancel the order which was issued during the last annual convention calling for a final elimination bout between Deontay Wilder and Andy Ruiz jr to determine the mandatory challenger of the division.
The WBC will evaluate the current situation in the division in order to review the viable options and if necessary, issue a new ruling during the WBC annual convention to be held in Uzbekistan in November.
Ever since Canelos blatant disregard to the organization its not wonder nobody takes WBC’s orders seriously. Instead of calling them orders they should be called BS suggestions.
Neither guys are active.
Ruiz only fights when running low on money for chow.
Ruiz fought better and more often when he wasn’t worried about looking like a body builder.
Now he’s on hold until he gets his beach bod.
Happy Friday!!!
NJ boxing, Ruiz will NEVER have a beach body. Unless you’re talking about him washing up on shore.
Hey leave Ruiz whale body alone.
I’m still in mourning over the 60+ whales that have died due to the installation of the wind power thingiemajigees I’m the Pacific. If Andy ends up washed ashore it might pushe over the edge.
Cold.
Jay Leno once said about a fat guy in the water, “He looks like a floating doughnut.”
Remember when Wilder said he was going to fight three times this year?? He’ll be 38 years old in October and he’s about to just sit the year out and I wouldn’t at all be surprised if Ruiz did the same at 34. If you look at their rankings, Wilder, Ruiz and Joshua are the top three. I think it’s fairly likely that the next time the WBC calls for a mandatory at heavyweight, the guy whose phone rings is #4 which is currently Makhmudov.
Wilder and Ruiz should not be ranked due to inactivity
The weights these days just don’t fight very often. Seriously, three or four months goes by before you even hear of a top-five between two heavy weights that are in the top 25 or 30. Heck, back in the 1990s, Tuesday Night Fights usually had to heavyweight fights every month on there TBS show. It seems like every one of them are waiting for a multi million dollar pay day before they’ll lace up the gloves.
“Heavyweights, that is…….” ( There is no option on here to edit your posts. What is this, year 2000 website technology?! )
Inactivity is the worst demon a boxer can face!!!
I agree. Wilder have done nothing to justify being a mandatory. I hope these guys have brilliant financial advisors, because they kneecap their own earnings by taking years off. This is weird considering Wilder could fight a no-hoper and still make seven figures.
Ruiz got the Mikey Garcia syndrome, wants more money than he’s worth.
He’s waisting his skill and youth demanding exorbitant paydays off one good win.
Don’t blame blame him but he has to know his limits,
The problem with that mindset is short money beats NO money. Why keep pricing yourself out and not getting ANY fights? Logic dictates that if you think you’re worth X amount and no one is willing to pay X amount you may want to rethink your position.
Not lucrative enough in the “dollars game” ! You watch,they’ll order a Wilder v Joshua bout instead!
pitiful…… both over value their worth..
they have noth been lucky to fight a big money drawing opponent.. hopefully we see them both in the ring before 2026
I think Wilder was waiting on how well Joshua did in the fight before commiting. Had Joshua lost, the Ruiz fight would have been finalized. Since AJ got a one hitter quitter, he will now campaign for the fight. The announcers were already selling the fight before Helenius was starched. However, time is ticking and the longer Wilder waits, the slower those fast twitches muscles will become. Soon enough those huge windows in-between shots will become dots that open and close in a nanosecond
The WBC is a corrupt joke. Manipulating rankings based off the dollar protecting American and Mexican fighter’s to handing out customised belts these criminals are a cancer to boxing.
You could say that about all of the organisations BB
That’s ok, boxing fans have given up on the wbc being a reputable organization a long, long, long time ago.
“Fuck it, we won’t even try.”
That’s the spirit!
I don’t think the WBC has much leverage here. Neither fighter can be stripped of a title.