By Gabriel F. Cordero
In a historic day for world boxing, the presidents of the four main organizations met within the Annual Congress of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) in Puerto Rico seeking that a single champion per division prevails.
Mauricio Sulaimán from the World Boxing Council (WBC), Gilberto Mendoza from the World Boxing Association (WBA), Daryl Peoples from the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and host Francisco Valcárcel from the Organization World Cup (WBO), met making it clear the importance of maintaining relationships for the benefit of the sport.
They will look for the unification fights between the champions. The WBA reaffirmed its plan to try to have only one champion in each division.
If they all unified and we actually only had one world champ in each division, thats be incredible.
But Im not holding my breathe on that happening.
That’s would be a dumb thing to do. Almost all boxers will never get a title shot. Since the champion only has to defend his title a couple times a year. What they need to do is force more number 1 Mandatory fights. Make top 10 fighters fight each other in order to get a shot at the title.
Yeah, because more arbitrary
‘title’ fights is great for boxing.
People don’t care about title fights because there are like 6 different belts to choose from. It’s supposed to be a prestigious event, not everyone should be getting a title shot. It should be pretty rare, and boxers in the top ten should be hungry and competitive to earn it.
Might actually be good news for Ugas if someone can convince the WBA to allow him to unify.
“…and host Francisco Valcárcel from the Organization World Cup (WBO),”
– WBO = World Boxing Organization.
“Mauricio Sulaimán from the World Boxing Council (WBC)..”
– Oh no. This means another article for next week.
Couldn’t an eccentric billionaire buy all four and merge them?
A bunch of crooks !! I’m going to far with that statement but man we have to be realistic and understand these organisations are not allways doing good to boxing..