Another email champ is being crowned!

[ijudge]

I remember Sergio Martinez was emailed a belt too
I think it was the WBC 154 belt despite fighting at middleweight

You Can Never Trust These ABC belts

[_Rexy_]

We should actually blame the sanctioning bodies for this instead of the fighters. I'd be vocal about that but I like calling Janibek Alimkhanuly an email champion too much.

First ever email unification

[El_Mero]

This is not a true "email champ" scenario. Tank already held the WBA 'regular' and the plan has been to eliminate these. With the 'super' champion gone, he becomes the sole titleholder at 135. The best the WBA can do is enforce a strong mandatory on him, which hopefully they will do.

secondary titlists have been elevated a lot for at least 20 years. i don't understand this "e-mail champ" nonsense.
when ken norton won a final eliminator and ali vacated, he was elevated to full champion. norton wasn't even an interim champion, just a #1 contender. that was in 1978.
there were a lot of cases in the bareknuckle era when a champion was stripped and the title was awarded to somebody else. there were cases when the new champion was 0-0 and similar. ratings didn't even exist then, let alone interim belts. so this is not something new. i don't understand everybody's outrage in recent years.

Crimson said it best

He holds the WBA (regular) secondary belt. For most of its existence, it didn't come with a mandatory shot or the same requirements to defend it as the real belt, which is doubtless why he's collected so many of those worthless secondary belts.

[El_Mero]

Is Davis the Interim champ?

Regular (whatever that means)

[Spray_resistant]

Its one of those cases where it doesn't matter much since Tank is with or without a belt a top 135lber.

[drablj]

secondary titlists have been elevated a lot for at least 20 years. i don't understand this "e-mail champ" nonsense.
when ken norton won a final eliminator and ali vacated, he was elevated to full champion. norton wasn't even an interim champion, just a #1 contender. that was in 1978.
there were a lot of cases in the bareknuckle era when a champion was stripped and the title was awarded to somebody else. there were cases when the new champion was 0-0 and similar. ratings didn't even exist then, let alone interim belts. so this is not something new. i don't understand everybody's outrage in recent years.

[Tatabanya]

Anyone who get's "elevated" to champion is not a real champion.

No matter what the circumstance.

Until you actually win the belt, you're not a champion.

That reminds me of Ken Norton, awarded a WBC title without a fight and losing it in his first defence...

[Smash]

straight to the junk folder

[dan-b]

This is not a true "email champ" scenario. Tank already held the WBA 'regular' and the plan has been to eliminate these. With the 'super' champion gone, he becomes the sole titleholder at 135. The best the WBA can do is enforce a strong mandatory on him, which hopefully they will do.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Anyone who get's "elevated" to champion is not a real champion.

No matter what the circumstance.

Until you actually win the belt, you're not a champion.

Agreed with this one. If the champ vacates rather than fight, I tend to think it's more legit, but I tend not to think of them as a champ until they've defended the belt in that circumstance. Gotta earn it in the ring against reasonable competition. I didn't rate Haney as champ until he beat Kambosos. Makes a big difference if the real champ is still in the division too though.