Comments Thread For: IBF: Lamont Peterson Will Be Stripped if Garcia Wins

[icha]

both should be stripped for not making 140...

[Humean]

This is why Haymon is trying to distance PBC from sanctioning bodies..

The belts and different bizarre scenarios like a guy popping for roids and getting knocked out by lucas but he is still a champ, this turns off casuals

Honestly I don't think casuals are particularly aware of all that. The sanctioning body nonsense doesn't put off casuals very much, it puts off the diehards.

[North Star]

Kind of late. He should have been stripped once he got busted for juicing, and should have lost it to Matthysse.

The thing with that is, the Matthysse fight was held at 141, so the titles wouldn't be on the line. Thanks Haymon!

[Pigeons]

Let the circle jerk commence!

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Honestly I don't think casuals are particularly aware of all that. The sanctioning body nonsense doesn't put off casuals very much, it puts off the diehards.

Not now, but years past this kinda stuff stuff is what turned off casuals (bowe garbage can) and now it's too confusing and unstructured to grow any casual audience... Diehards complain but we all still watch, so the powers that be will never change

[MBE]

Good on the IBF, you can't have this guy hold the title hostage any longer by losing non-title matches. This isn't the wwe here.

[Motofan]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Lamont already got the tombstone engraved and everything. Someone has to have that picture laying around.

[kiaba360]

I'm happy for Cuenca, who's been waiting a while for a title shot.

[anonymous2.0]

This is more the WBC's fault and their ****** unification rules.

Lucas vs Lamont should have been for the WBC Silver and IBF belt except the WBC wouldn't sanction the fight because they don't believe in unification fights. So the fight was made at 141 with neither belt on the line. If the WBC allowed unification than Lucas would have had the IBF belt after beating Lamont, and Danny would have the IBF after beating Lucas and we wouldn't have this fiasco of the IBF champ losing and fighting CW yet still retaining the title.

And yet Danny and Floyd both have WBC belts and another belt simultaneously. Guess the rules only apply to some boxers.

[SalimShady1212]

What are the chances that Adrien Broner bypasses either the no. 1 or 2 contender and gets first shot at the title? Matthysse should be high in the rankings but he's not even on them.