On October 3, the WBO World Championship Committee issued a ruling granting sanction approval of the WBO/IBF unified middleweight championship contest between Zhanibek Alimkhanuly and Andrei Milkhailovich scheduled for October 4 in Australia. The Alimkhanuly/Milkhailovich was conducted, but only the IBF middleweight championship was at stake.
According to WBO rules, any champion who conducts a contest in the champion’s weight division which is not a defense of the title can result in that title being vacated.
Team Alimkhanuly has now been ordered to “SHOW CAUSE” within the next 5 days as to why the WBO should not declare their middleweight championship “vacant” due to failure to comply with terms and conditions
established in the “resolution” dated October 3.
Mikhailovich was the WBO’s #4 ranked fighter. Their #1 is Hamzah Sheeraz, after the IBF updates their rankings, he’ll be #1 for everyone besides the WBA. They can order Janibek to fight Sheeraz (or whoever they want) to satisfy their mandatory in his next fight and that’ll be that.
Basically the wbo wants sanctioning fees. They could care less who the opponent was.
Alphabet corruption Steve G and Lucie! They should establish an order depending on how many belts you have. So Alimk, defended his wbo next his ibf belt, and so on.
What’s messed up is that they have one! Beterbiev has three belts. Each and every time he fights it’s either a unification or a mandatory. They figure it out. Mikhailovich was the IBF’s turn and now it’s the WBO’s. Janibek’s “show cause” to the WBO (if he cares) would be ‘I just satisfied my IBF mandatory. It’s your turn’.
If there was only one corrupt organisation you wouldn’t have so much bullshit.
These self-appointed sanctioning body imbeciles have destroyed any credibility that boxing once had.
Just dump the belt and save your money. To be honest no one really cares about this fighter …can’t sell any tickets, no fans and hasn’t been in any significant fights. Just another beltholder they can squeeze money from.
just another money grab reason the alphabet soups are slowly screwing themselves over by doing this crap bring on the IBO and WBF and just drop both the WBO and especially money hungry IBF
I was in Puerto Rico in 1988 the days the WBO was formed. I thought it was a joke at the time when I first heard about. And no, I wasn’t at the WBO meeting, I was doing cool things like hanging out with Gerry Cooney!