Question: When did the WBC take away the jr middleweight belt from Martinez?

[Jack Napier]

he shoulda kept the WBC JMW belt and ditched his alphabet belts at 160
he has the Ring belt so who cares?
WBC just don't let fighters keep 2 division straps

[paulf]

First the WBO stripped him because the WBO said they had some bull****, never before enforced rule that you cant hold a title in a different weight class from a different sanctioning body. They said he had 30 days to fix the situation.

That week Martinez vacated the 154 WBC belt. The WBC had already told him he had to choose one or the other, so Martinez vacated in hopes of retaining his 160 WBO belt.

They didnt give it back. So within a month or so of beating Kelly Pavlik, Martinez was stripped of two world titles. Not for not defending them, not for losing them in the ring, but because the organizations simply wanted them back.

Keep in mind they knew all this when they took thousands of dollars in sanctioning fees from Martinez when they allowed him to fight for the titles.

There was an article on here that said Sergio kind of dropped the 154 belt out of spite, because the main reason the WBC was stripping him was because they wanted to give the strap to Chavez Jr. Chavez had *****ed out of an opportunity to fight Martinez earlier this year, so the WBC had to find another way to get Chavez their strap.

Sergio gave up the 154 belt because JCC Jr cant make 154, so if he wanted a strap Chavez would have to fight him after all.

Sadly, the WBC checkmated Martinez by creating the WBC Silver Belt and giving to to Chavez. Pathetic.

[War Dinamita]

They took his belt away a month ago because they want two different champions at two different weight classes. They would get more money if two different fighters have the belts instead of Sergio having both belts and only defending one belt.

[infamous larryx]

it was big news on here about 2 months ago fellas

[Fox McCloud]

Would love to know this.

Thanks

It was when Martinez said he felt more comfortable at 160, and he wanted to remain there, and at that point, he ditched his 154 belt.

I thought it's been taken away already. Isn't this the belt that Pac & Magarito are supposedly fighting for?

That is the case that they are fighting for his 154 belt that Martinez won. That belt is weird in the fact that the last time the title changed hands in the ring, and not due to a vacancy was when Mayweather beat Oscar De La Hoya.

oh wait i read ur thing wrong. they took it away like a month or so after he won it.

He had the 154 belt for ages... they stripped Vernon Forrest of it... I think you meant that he dropped the 154 belt about a month after he won his 160 belt.

Shouldn't they give it back since he is likely to
be fighting at Jr Middleweight next.

I'm about as close to 100% sure as you can be that the rematch with Williams will be at middleweight.

They had a rule that you couldnt hold a title in 2 different weight division from 2 different commisions.

So they gave him a choice, keep the 160 titles or 154 title, so he choice the 160 and was stripped of his 154

The WBC enforced that he couldn't hold their belt in two different divisions. The WBO decided to be dumb, and just strip him for no reason, and gave the belt to Pirog after he beat Jacobs.