Comments Thread For: Canelo Alvarez Set To Relinquish IBF Title, No Longer Undisputed Champion

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Canelo Alvarez's reign as undisputed super-middleweight champion is on the brink of ending, with International Boxing Federation (IBF) rules separating the sport's most popular fighter from one of his four 168-pound belts.
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[crixus85]

Great news, if true. At long last a sanctioning body standing up to the entitled one!

[The Big Dunn]

I have no issue with this. The next fight should be Benavidez. Not the IBF mando.

The IBF is sticking to its rules. Can’t fault them for sticking to the letter of the rules.

The spirit of the rules should make their management see keeping the belt on Canelo (and Usyk as well) is better for the sport and the fans.

[Scooby817]

This is fantastic! Now Scull can go make a ton of money fighting for a vacant title!

[TelMex]

Sounds like the IBF are enforcing their rules rather than collecting the max sanctioning fees. Didn't the same thing happen for Opetia's first Saudi fight also? Now they just need to put in place the rehydration clause.

[famicommander]

I have no issue with this. The next fight should be Benavidez. Not the IBF mando.

The IBF is sticking to its rules. Can’t fault them for sticking to the letter of the rules.

The spirit of the rules should make their management see keeping the belt on Canelo (and Usyk as well) is better for the sport and the fans.

The problem is their rules are ******.

That they just rank anybody willing to sign up with them, and then just let random bums fight eliminators to become mandatory challengers is the problem here.

Guys like William Scull and Edgar Berlanga have absolutely no business being a mandatory challenger. Even if they fought each other, the winner still wouldn't be worthy of a shot. It should be guys like Benavidez, Morrell, Mbili, Gongorra, etc. Or the elite fighters in adjacent weight classes like Beterbiev, Bivol, or Janibek.

[mike1010011]

Cue the fans saying that canelo doesn't need belts anyways, and he's bigger than the sport itself.

[The Big Dunn]

The problem is their rules are ******.

That they just rank anybody willing to sign up with them, and then just let random bums fight eliminators to become mandatory challengers is the problem here.

Guys like William Scull and Edgar Berlanga have absolutely no business being a mandatory challenger. Even if they fought each other, the winner still wouldn't be worthy of a shot. It should be guys like Benavidez, Morrell, Mbili, Gongorra, etc. Or the elite fighters in adjacent weight classes like Beterbiev, Bivol, or Janibek.

You make a fair point. They do stick to the rules which is better than the stuff Suliman pulls for Canelo or the often toxic,m, manipulative influence Bob has with the WBO or Haymon with the WBA.

[SteveM]

The problem is their rules are ******.

That they just rank anybody willing to sign up with them, and then just let random bums fight eliminators to become mandatory challengers is the problem here.

Guys like William Scull and Edgar Berlanga have absolutely no business being a mandatory challenger. Even if they fought each other, the winner still wouldn't be worthy of a shot. It should be guys like Benavidez, Morrell, Mbili, Gongorra, etc. Or the elite fighters in adjacent weight classes like Beterbiev, Bivol, or Janibek.

Agreed. They stick to their rules. That's all good. But the big downer is the vast majority of the time their rankings have worse fighters than than those listed in the rankings of the other belt orgs - even the WBO. How can you have Scull fighting for a belt - just makes a mockery of the IBF and all of boxing.

[Loque-san]

Good on the IBF. That's what most of us wanted, for Canelo not to hold the belts hostage. If the WBC had enforced their rules, Canelo might have fought Benavidez, or vacated the belt and let Benavidez be a full titlist.