Comments Thread For: Crawford To Leapfrog Over Matthysse To WBO Shot

[Ringlife]

I wanted to see Matthysse get his chance at the WBO belt, that sucks I feel bad for the guy.

Now I know why Arum wanted to have Crawford next fight in NYC, which didn't make sense to me at the time but now that he's trying to make Crawford vs Algieri now, why not have that fight in NYC.

[Hougigo]

How does a guy not ranked leapfrog a guy who is? So if you hold a wbo belt in any other division you basically hold an invisible ranking over any non title holder in any weight class

That's ****ed up

Yea, Pretty sure other organizations do that too for their champions, but the WBO does that for sure. Same thing happened to Andrade recently

[Sugar Adam Ali]

It's not usual for a champion of a sanctioning body (wbo) getting first dibs at a title shot for a belt a wieghts class up...

I don't see a huge problem with it.. Let algieri and crawford fight and lucas take a final eliminator vs someone like broner

[Eastcoast]

Called this a month ago. After Crawford handles his business with Algeri, he'll take Jessie Vargas' title and then Bob will have a suitable opponent for Manny in the winter should the Mayweather fight not happen (in which case Manny fights Mikey Garcia in April).

If Oscar can make Matthysse vs Provodnikov, that needs to headline it's own card and likely have a rematch in the second half of the year.

[sicko]

No Surprise! WBO Bias Towards Top Rank and WBC Bias Towards GBP and Haymon Fighters!

That is another Problem in Boxing! Belt Organizations with a damn Agenda!

[Hougigo]

No Surprise! WBO Bias Towards Top Rank and WBC Bias Towards GBP and Haymon Fighters!

That is another Problem in Boxing! Belt Organizations with a damn Agenda!

Andrade isn't with Top Rank

[iloveboxing2]

That is BS, Algieri and Lucas should fight for the title and Crawford can challenge the winner if he decides to move up or challenge Garcia.

[batista84]

Bull**** at it's fullest.

Crawford = Top Rank
Matthysse = Al Haymon

Hello, hello, anybody home? think McFly



Impossible to make this fight

[Bigg Rigg]

If Crawford want the belt then why don't the make him and Matthysse fight for it???? **** Algerei. I don't wanna see him and TC fight.

[lopez36]

i remember a long time ago wbo saying that a champion moves up in weight while still a wbo champion,lets say like Crawford here,he was wbo lightweight champ and moving up while still champ,he gets to automatically fight for the title if he wishes because he was champion,wbo said this a long time ago,it's not like they are favoring him I think that's the way it works,if we don't agree that's another thing but they have always done this,