The WBO World Championship Committee has ordered the commencement of negotiations for a WBO middleweight championship contest between champion Demetrius Andrade and interim champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly. Parties are granted 30-days to reach an agreement or purse bid proceedings will be called.
The committee also ruled that Andrade must be medically and physically ready, willing, and able to fight as ordered. If he is not available to fight for “whatever reason,” the WBO middleweight title will be declared “vacant” and Alimkhnauly shall be elevated automatically to “full champion” status.
Likewise, if Alimkhanuly is not available to fight, the interim will be vacated.
The minimum acceptable bid for the WBO middleweight division is $200,000. Andrade is represented by Salita Promotions and Alimkhanuly is repped by Top Rank.
I guess this means the Andrade – Parker fight is off the table now. It’ll be damn interesting to see what Andrade does. Does he just vacate and move up or does he take this dangerous fight and attempt to continue his kind of listless reign. Potentially an extremely high risk for very little reward – if he beats Alim he still won’t get big fights.
Might be Andrade doing the ducking and doging this time, I mean does he actually look for challenging fights
Looks like the WBO is not happy w/Andrade for whatever reason……
Alimkhanuly in 2!
Pointless the WBO mandate because Andrade wants no part of Alimkhanuly and also stated he will campaign at 168. Eventually a well known name will face Alimkhanuly, number one is Munguia and two Eubank Jr. just man up and fight this man.
I seem to remember this same exact headline a few months back. I thought Andrade decided to pass on this, and was kicking around the idea of moving up to 168? Would love to see this fight happen, because I want to see Alim tested, but I’m expecting Andrade to ditch this in pursuit of something a little more lucrative. If Alim-Munguia….which I think would be a great fight….can’t be made, then hopefully Eubank Jr. steps up and takes a stab at fighting Alim., but supposedly Eubank Jr.-Conor Benn is in the works. I’m guessing Eubank Jr. and his team would be more interested in a big domestic contest with Benn over Alim. The Managers of the top Middleweights probably think of Alim as one big pain in the a$$.
Andrade turns the fight down and still complains no one will fight him
well is the money right?
Andrade should be happy someone is willing to fight him! I almost forgot he was world champion!!!!!!!