Comments Thread For: Oscar Rivas Pumped Over WBC Title Win, Evgeny Romanov Mandatory Fight Looms

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Last Friday in Montreal, Oscar Rivas finally became a world champion when he picked up the WBC's bridgerweight title with a tough unanimous decision win over Ryan Rozicki.
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[anonymous2.0]

Does this mean Rivas is an ATG HOF in the bridgeweight division?

[South Champion]

The mandatory is Evgeny Romanov, the guy who knocked out Wilder in the amateurs. He's probably hoping a win can get him a pay day against Wilder.

[jonnyc420]

A division nobody asked for, that the sport didn't need just so the WBC can collect more money. What a sad joke.

[Get em up]

Does this mean Rivas is an ATG HOF in the bridgeweight division?

He goes down in history as #3 or above ATG anything less than that would be pure disrespect to a man of his talent and obvious accomplishments

[nino brown21]

Just hope to God the other bodies don't follow .

[Scotland The Brave]

No-one can take this serious when Usyk the Unified HEAVY weight champion weighs less than this fake division Bridger champion.

[NachoMan]

Just hope to God the other bodies don't follow .

Well, I'm no fan of the Bridgerweight division, but I do tend to think that something had to be done when today's average elite HW is 6'5" and 250+lbs. The WBC have created a wave with the Bridgerweight division because its creation also changed the weight range of the Cruiserweight Division, so now a WBC Cruiserweight isn't necessarily the same weight as a Cruiserweight from other sanctioning bodies. I think the smarter thing would have been to just expand the Cruiserweight division (and maybe LHW too), but, of course, this has to be done scientifically so that fighters from these categories aren't burdened more than fighters competing in other divisions. The whole thing is a mess tbh. If you're going to create a new division between Cruiserweight and Heavyweight, then it certainly should have just been called Super Cruiserweight, but then again, the naming logic got screwed up when Cruiserweight got created in the first place anyway. It just makes no kind of sense to have the Light Heavyweight division three classes below the Heavyweight division.

[kushking]

As much as bridgerweight is a rétarded travesty thought up by pos Sulaiman, I'm glad Rivas gets to say hes a champion after the way he was robbed by juiced up Whyte on multiple fronts.

Whyte has since then proven even more what a cheating Fraud hes always been too. Rivas should be Interim

[kingstip9]

As much as bridgerweight is a rétarded travesty thought up by pos Sulaiman, I'm glad Rivas gets to say hes a champion after the way he was robbed by juiced up Whyte on multiple fronts.

Whyte has since then proven even more what a cheating Fraud hes always been too. Rivas should be Interim

Even if he was robbed by Whyte, why would that make him a champion or a deserved one ?