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January 19, 2005: "ESPN2's February 18 "Friday Night Fights Main Events Special" from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ features both WBO welterweight champions, Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito, in title defenses. Cintron defends his WBO-interim welterweight crown against Steven Martinez in the main event, while WBO welterweight champion Margarito defends his title against Carlos Baldomir in the co-feature"
The WBO now has an interim champion while the real champ is active and they are both in WBO welterweight title fights... on the same show on the same night?? Tell you what. It will be a close call but let's do a poll and pose the question, "What is dumber, this or the WBA having a "regular champ" and a "super champ" in the same weight at the same time??" I don't know, but it's close. Real close.
(Before I go, let me interject one more recent one. The hits just keep on coming. A few weeks ago Jose Navarro went over to Japan to fight for the WBC title and apparently was robbed badly. Most observers had him winning pretty cleanly. Lou DiBella asked for a rematch to be ordered by the WBC. The WBC came back today and said they "very rarely order immediate rematches" and have only done so "a handful of times in the last quarter century." Hmmmmmm. Sounds good but did you know that one of those handful of times was when they ordered an immediate rematch of the first Mosley-Wright fight????? That fight warranted an immediate rematch? Sounds like the purse it generated, and the WBC's cut of it, warranted the rematch as much as anything that happened in the actual fight. Mosley wasn't robbed against Wright in any way but Navarro was against his Japanese opponent. I would love to hear Suliaman explain away this one.
January 21, 2005: ABC watch: Fight tonight. Ten rounds for the Vacant NBA Junior Intercontinental Light Heavyweight Title. The Junior Intercontinental title? Two questions: Who is the NBA and WHY in the world would they think a junior Intercontinental title is needed?
The WBO now has an interim champion while the real champ is active and they are both in WBO welterweight title fights... on the same show on the same night?? Tell you what. It will be a close call but let's do a poll and pose the question, "What is dumber, this or the WBA having a "regular champ" and a "super champ" in the same weight at the same time??" I don't know, but it's close. Real close.
(Before I go, let me interject one more recent one. The hits just keep on coming. A few weeks ago Jose Navarro went over to Japan to fight for the WBC title and apparently was robbed badly. Most observers had him winning pretty cleanly. Lou DiBella asked for a rematch to be ordered by the WBC. The WBC came back today and said they "very rarely order immediate rematches" and have only done so "a handful of times in the last quarter century." Hmmmmmm. Sounds good but did you know that one of those handful of times was when they ordered an immediate rematch of the first Mosley-Wright fight????? That fight warranted an immediate rematch? Sounds like the purse it generated, and the WBC's cut of it, warranted the rematch as much as anything that happened in the actual fight. Mosley wasn't robbed against Wright in any way but Navarro was against his Japanese opponent. I would love to hear Suliaman explain away this one.
January 21, 2005: ABC watch: Fight tonight. Ten rounds for the Vacant NBA Junior Intercontinental Light Heavyweight Title. The Junior Intercontinental title? Two questions: Who is the NBA and WHY in the world would they think a junior Intercontinental title is needed?
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