WBA Lightweight title

[Rpgboxen]

im pretty confused too with this whole BS.....so if rios is just a paper champion(kinda like an interim champion), should'nt it just be right or mandatory for jmm to fight rios for the real title or stripp jmm out of his wba title if he decides not to?.....

The WBA's "super" champion has 18 months to make a mandatory defense but it won't be against the " regular" titleholder Rios. Under the WBA rules the super champion has to defend the title against the #1 contender and the regular champion has to defend against the interim champion or the next highest rated contender.

We can all thank Lennox Lewis for making this suggestion to the WBA president to make a super champion

[puga]

Quite the opposite actually. The whole point of a "super champion" is when a superstar wins your belt and you know he isn't going to be defending against mandatories several times a year. It's a way to keep the superstar paying sanctioning fees instead of just vacating the belt. The WBA treats "super" and "regular" champions as separate champs so they will never have a mandatory fight. When there is an interim champion in the WBA, the "regular" champion has to fight the interim champion. The "super" champion basically has no mandatories.

thanks....that sucks if true....like the demarco's wbc paper title, they were talking about if sotto moves up , thed make demarco the real wbc champion ... so since they have all these interim , and regular champions, if the real champion vacates, who would they make a real champion , the interim titlest or the "regular titliest?.....im curios coz sergio was just an interim titlest at 154, they just bumped him up to being the real wbc champion ....

[Sweet Jesus]

thanks....that sucks if true....like the demarco's wbc paper title, they were talking about if sotto moves up , thed make demarco the real wbc champion ... so since they have all these interim , and regular champions, if the real champion vacates, who would they make a real champion , the interim titlest or the "regular titliest?.....im curios coz sergio was just an interim titlest at 154, they just bumped him up to being the real wbc champion ....

If the "super" champ vacates, then nothing changes. If the regular champ vacates then the interim champ may be promoted to regular champ or have to fight against an opponent for the title. It really depends on how good your promoter is if he can get you the title with having to fight for it.

[puga]

If the "super" champ vacates, then nothing changes. If the regular champ vacates then the interim champ may be promoted to regular champ or have to fight against an opponent for the title. It really depends on how good your promoter is if he can get you the title with having to fight for it.

that sucks bigtime!....thanks man