WBA shenanigans #212: Shumenov

🤦*♂️ After finally unifying their 'super' and 'regular' featherweight titles with Leo Santa Cruz v Abner Mares II, the WBA have now sanctioned a new 'regular' belt for Jhack Tepora v Edivaldo Ortega on July 14th.— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) 3. Juli 2018 Just lol. WBA sucks Correction lol. Jhack Tepora Vs Edivaldo Ortega is for the interim WBA title. Apparently, Joseph Diaz Vs Jesus Rojas is for the regular title. :fingersx::fingersx::fingersx: now we have the WBA Super, WBA Super in recess, WBA regular and WBA interim at cruiserweight and the WBA super, WBA regular, WBA interim at 126, smh.

What's next? Bam Bam Rios-Victor Ortiz for the vacant WBA interim welterweight title?

🤦*♂️ After finally unifying their 'super' and 'regular' featherweight titles with Leo Santa Cruz v Abner Mares II, the WBA have now sanctioned a new 'regular' belt for Jhack Tepora v Edivaldo Ortega on July 14th.— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) 3. Juli 2018 Just lol. WBA sucks

I just took a look at who is fighting next week and I just noticed that Beibut Shumenov is fighting against Hizni Altunkaya for the vacant WBA (regular) belt. Shumenov has been inactive. His last fight was more than 2 years ago. Altunkaya is ranked #71 according to boxrec, doesnt have a good win and lost against glowacki a year ago. Earlier this year the WBA sanctioned a fight for the vacant (regular) belt between Arsen Goulamirian and Ryad Merhy. Boxrec now lists that fight for the "interim WBA (regular) belt". I dont know why they changed it. So end of next week, we will have WBA super: Murat Gassiev WBA regular: probably Beibut Shumenov and WBA interim: Arsen Goulamirian WBA is the biggest joke lol. And all 3 of them just have to win and will rack up title defenses...all are true champions!!

I thought they said they're gonna reduce the number of these paper champions?

Yeah they’re full of chit. Besides Bivol and Inoue, all of their “regular” champions should not be called champions.

They are a joke. How they come up with some of their rankings is a mystery.

Yep, everything you said is correct. Shumenov is rich and pays the WBA big bucks for these opportunities. WBA has said that the winner of this fight will have to take on Goulamirian, who will kill either of these dudes. Hopefully one day these pigs can actually get down to 1 belt

I thought they were getting rid of those interim and regular bull**** why are they sanctioning fights for vacancies

The WBA love Shumenov nearly as much as they love Sturm, man. His run as WBA Light Heavy champion (and later 'super' champion) has to rank as one of the worst in recent memory. Koba, I couldn’t agree more

The WBA love Shumenov nearly as much as they love Sturm, man. His run as WBA Light Heavy champion (and later 'super' champion) has to rank as one of the worst in recent memory.

Yep, the WBA does seem to be in a mess. And this is after they said they were going to clean themselves up. But no, they are still doing this crap. Quite shameful really.

Are you fucking kidding me.