How's it possible that Mayweather and Canelo are both holding a WBA Super Champ Belt?

[Nekronicle]

well, the fact we can't all agree on whos champion in a divison is a problem!! (-_-)

[Phenom]

I didn't see the WBA give him the weird looking Super Belt after the fight, so I assume he just as the regular title. I might be wrong, but I never saw it.



Thats the regular WBA belt Trout had.

Floyd is the WBA champion. Ratings always favour the Super Champ over the Regular one, Wladimir over Povetkin, etc etc.

As a Trout fan, I always said he should go after a proper title instead of the one he had.

In this sense, Canelo isn't a unified champion until he has Mayweathers belt.

WBA gives any fighter that hold their belt along with WBC or WBO or IBF the super champion title they will probably change the name or stop unifying/ recognizing other belts like WBC does

[techliam]

WBA gives any fighter that hold their belt along with WBC or WBO or IBF the super champion title they will probably change the name or stop unifying/ recognizing other belts like WBC does

That's usually the case, but until recently, they added a 5 defence rule where you can be super champ after defending it 5 times or so.

The actual rule they had was that if a fighter held TWO other titles, they would upgrade to Super Champ (to emulate the previous 3 belt champ setup). But the WBA is plagued with corruption and so we have what we have.

Usually, the WBA have a pre-made Super belt to hand out to the winners of unified matches, but it didn't appear to be so this time around. That's why I believe Canelo is just the regular WBA champ and thus not unified in a strict sense.

Really wish they'd all have a setup like the IBF. One champion, no silver/regular/interim crap.

[HeroBando]

That's usually the case, but until recently, they added a 5 defence rule where you can be super champ after defending it 5 times or so.

The actual rule they had was that if a fighter held TWO other titles, they would upgrade to Super Champ (to emulate the previous 3 belt champ setup). But the WBA is plagued with corruption and so we have what we have.

Usually, the WBA have a pre-made Super belt to hand out to the winners of unified matches, but it didn't appear to be so this time around. That's why I believe Canelo is just the regular WBA champ and thus not unified in a strict sense.

Really wish they'd all have a setup like the IBF. One champion, no silver/regular/interim crap.

You can check on boxrec, says Canelo Trout contested for WBA Super, plus WBC

[techliam]

You can check on boxrec, says Canelo Trout contested for WBA Super, plus WBC

Boxrec isn't necessarily correct though. They might have assumed that because that's the usual procedure, but like I said in my posts there seems to be a few little factors that confuse it a little

We have to wait till the WBA make an announcement on the situation. The most likely route I see them taking is to keep Canelo as a regular champ, Floyd as Super, that way they get paid more. But it also means Canelo isn't strictly unified, so idk.

[Jam Jars]

well, the fact we can't all agree on whos champion in a divison is a problem!! (-_-)

Nothing new there, we didn't know who the champion was most of the time with just 4 belts from different orgs. Now there's super duper champions and **** it's ridiculous.

[HeroBando]

Boxrec isn't necessarily correct though. They might have assumed that because that's the usual procedure, but like I said in my posts there seems to be a few little factors that confuse it a little

We have to wait till the WBA make an announcement on the situation. The most likely route I see them taking is to keep Canelo as a regular champ, Floyd as Super, that way they get paid more. But it also means Canelo isn't strictly unified, so idk.

Maybe. There's a precedent though, both Gamboa and John were super at 126

[elgranluchadore]

the only logical solution is to upgrade one of them to hyper champion

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[MikeRo1972]

Who cares, belts mean nothing.