I wish we as a boxing community and and fans would stop recognizing the WBO. Still to this day, I treat that title like it was treated during the 90s. It’s crazy that Herbie Hide historically now is a 2 time hw champ on a title that no one cared about at the time.
quiet opposite. Promoted. so October 17th there will be a new unified champion. Lopez or Loma.
Pretty sure they just gave him the 'franchise' belt, which is like a nod to him not having lost his belt in the ring but they had to, for legal reasons give the real belt to Haney as Loma was supposed to fight him. I can't remember exactly, anyone?
Taylor he beats Ramirez in a good scarp imo. Every one is close but politics will get in the way and make it longer than needed hence Fury/AJ Charlo/Teix.
when was the last time somebody unified titles one by one?
I think apart from the odd occasion, it's basically impossible to unify 4 titles (the proper titles) - especially when those 4 organisations have about 3 belts in each group.
The odd occasion is normally somebody left of field who has a belt (or two belts) - a bit like that African guy who had two belts who was an easy beat for Terrence Crawford...
Jermell Charlo now has a good chance as the remaining guy is an outsider i believe.. should be easy business/politics.
The next guy would be Josh Taylor or Ramirez...
Lomachenko is very obviously the answer.
Linares WBA
Pedraza WBO
Lopez IBF
Once he beats Lopez I full expect Loma to call out Tank Davis or Devin Haney once people start disputing his undisputed status.
I also expect Tank to hide like a coward and Haney to vacate and move to 140 claiming that Loma ducked him and now he can't make weight anymore.
Tank and Haney both have that Mayweather influence and won't put their zeros at risk.
Just another way Mayweather ruined boxing.
Naoya Inoue could do it, just needs the fights. Oubaali, Casimiro and Banquez aren't challenges for him in my opinion, they just hold the belts he needs. Naoya was scheduled against Casimiro for his US debut but that got scrapped. :(
Josh Taylor in my opinion.He might get a fight with Ramirez and I think he beats him. Jermall has to make fights with both GGG and Andrade and that won't be easy. I think Jermall beats Andrade but loses to GGG.