The World Boxing Council has confirmed that Saturday’s bout between Dillian Whyte (25-1 18 KOs) and Oscar Rivas (26-0 18 KOs) at the O2 Arena in London will be contested for the WBC interim world heavyweight championship. The winner of the bout will become mandatory challenger for the WBC heavyweight world championship, currently held by Deontay Wilder.
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How can there be an interim champion when the real champion defended his title only two months ago? Wilder should pull a Riddick Bowe and drop the belt in the trash can. It’s an outrage for him to pay those sanctioning fees, only for the WBC crooks to devalue his title by splintering it.
But Riddick only dumped the belt because his punk azz was scared of getting knocked out by Lennox Lewis again who was his mandatory!
They should all drop these belts in a trash can. How many sports fans even have heard of the two fighting for this “title?” If enough do this it could put all these organizations out of business to be replaced by an honest one. Hell freezing over would probably be a better bet than this actually happening, but if enough quit paying sanctioning fees it could.
Wilder has to beat everyone with a real pulse while fury gets to bullcrap around and stay out of wars
Another sanctioning fee for another worthless/meaningless title….
Should be a decent fight though, got to give Dillian his dues, he doesn’t shy from risky fights..
Dillian better don’t underestimate Rivas, who is a very decent fighter with nice amateur pedigree, being his win over Jennings not a fluke. A loss to Rivas could have devastating consequences to his boxing career. I hope to see him winning this fight to keep alive his dreams of facing Wilder or Fury. I think Whyte is a worthy opponent for any of them
No, there is not a title at stake. Both boxers are contenders and the result changes nothing.
Whyte has been mandatory challenger for nearly 2 years.. Wilder is a pussy coward bending to them demands of Al Haymon.. fight your mandatory pussy!!!!