Fernando Montiel vs Eric Morel is Ordered By The WBO

By Mark Vester

Fernando Montiel can forget about his plan of getting Vic Darchinyan or Joseph Agbeko. At the ongoing WBO convention in Budapest, Hungary, WBO president Paco Valcarcel ruled that Montiel must defend his WBO bantamweight title against the mandatory Eric Morel.

Top Rank and Puerto Rico Best Boxing are ready to put the fight together. The only holdup right now is the split of the money. PRBB would like the WBO to issue a ruling for a 50-50 split between the fighters. They were set to meet for the vacant title after the champion Gerry Penalosa move up in weight to challenge Vic Darchinyan. The title was never vacated and instead Montiel, who was the interim champion, received the status of full champion. PRBB makes the case that Morel was the mandatory for all of that time and their fighter should not be bound to a 75-25 split.

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