Comments Thread For: Alberto Puello-Batyr Akhmedov Vacant Title Fight Ordered By WBA; Ismael Barroso To Face Winner

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Alberto Puello finally has a path to his first career title shot. BoxingScene.com has learned that Dominican Republic's Puello will face former secondary title challenger Batyr Akhmedov for the vacant WBA junior welterweight title. A ruling was reached on Friday, following a month-long process of hearing the cases pleaded by the top six contenders as to why each was deserving of the opportunity.
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[famicommander]

What a joke the WBA continues to be.

[BigZ44]

Interesting decisions. So Puello vs Akhmedov for the belt, I like Akhmedov to win that fight. I feel like he then beats Barroso as well.

Plus, Ohara vs Sandor Martin in an eliminator. I think Ohara will duck it to fight Ritson, Martin boxes his balls off

[Rodtang]

Saw this coming. Total corruption by the WBA. The title becomes vacant. Couple of things stink about this. First the WBA break an agreement with the governing bodies to call a mandatory out of turn. Causing Taylor to have 2 mandatories and have to vacate one. Then once this title is vacant, do we get the customary 1 v 2?. No. We get a job interview for no's 1 through 6. But why 6? Why not 4 ? It was always gonna be Puello. Because he's PBC. That's the entity that traditionally puts the most money in Mendoza's pocket. But we have to go to no 6 to get to the next PBC fighter in the rankings. Akhmedov. It's so transparent it's beyond belief. The thing is, I don't begrudge Batyr the shot. He deserves it way more than Puello. But back when he should have got it, when Barrios got a decision he didn't deserve, and the WBA ordered the rematch, remarkably it just seemed to disappear. But then of course PBC didn't own Batyr back then. So a nice bonus for Mendoza keeps Batyr away. But now he's with PBC and their buying him a shot. And of course buying PBC another title. Barroso has just been shafted.

[dan-b]

This article in microcosm shows why we desperately need the post-belt era. Barroso's trainer's comments have no credibility because they were playing the game too, they're just upset the corruption hasn't worked in their favour.

[Mammoth]

This tournament will collapse. If Ohara doesn't enter I expect Prograis to step in and beat Martin.