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Brinkley was not the mandatory. He had been in a position to enter into a final eliminator by being #2, but that final eliminator turned out to be Mendy-Bika.
Brinkley was a voluntary defense for Bute.
Brinkley is about as good a super middleweight as Sosnowski is a heavyweight: lots of heart, but clearly not world-class.
Brinkley was a poor choice then, but I can't see who they could have picked aside of him
The more you try to make your point, the more contrived it sounds. Briggs wasn't some guys in his 40's who hadn't fought in years. He wasn't a fat lightheavy pretending to be a heavyweight. And he wasn't the worst challenger for the title either. The weakling starting out in the gym analogy is absolutely ridiculous.
Compared to either Klitschko, any fighter (especially Haye) is a weakling.
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