Comments Thread For: Bey Vacates Title; IBF Orders Shafikov-Barthelemy Clash

[Humean]

Bey ducked his mandatory, what a feeble excuse for a champion.

[Acapulco Gold]

well the chinese dont like african american dudes just look at how they tream them in corner stores,devon had a point so i dont blame him for not wanting to get robbed in china

Did you not read the article? He also declined a fight in Vegas. It's pretty obvious Bey was scared of Shafikov, who the hell rejects a fight twice? Embarrassing.

[Pigeons]

Cowardly move

[daggum]

bey wants that pbc belt. wilder will do the same when povetkin comes calling.

[bigdunny1]

Bey is a joke. Doesn't deserve the belt anyway

[sicko]

Barthelemy was fighting at 130 just last year, he can probably make 135. He jumped two weight classes for the DeMarco fight.

Yeah I know that, he was the IBF Champion at 130, so maybe he wants the IBF at 135 and eventually 140 as well

[tiliheels]

Bey was about to get "N'Dam"ed (drastically shorter monet than was initially offered), with a title belt around his waist no less, and basically said "**** that, i'm not gonna let them sucker me like that".

Rather than take that fight for $50k, Bey is going to likely end up on either the Mayweather undercard or fight earlier that week, making double that for a stay-busy fight (If Barthelemy can come through with the victory, which isn't an unlikely result, Barthelemy-Bey can happen for the IBF title, with Bey and Barthelemy splitting $500k).

moving on

boxing ins broke..defending titles for only 50k is a slap in the face..200k he'll make elsewhere..50k to go to china is insane

[tiliheels]

Why the **** is Vazquez not fighting for the vacant title???

bc he lost fair and square on the cards bc he ran and held and hugged without landing significant clean shots while gettin hit by a more aggressive fighter to the body all night....and bc the IBF allows their champs at lower weights to step up in weight and fight for the title...rances just dropped his 130 ibf title to move up in weight..

[tiliheels]

How the fck does that banana rat barthelemy get a title shot at 135 when he's never had a fight there? What kind of BS is that

racist not cool..but the WBO and ibf allow their champs at lower weight to become mandatories if they move up in weight..

[tiliheels]

Are other top JWW's ranked at 135 also? and getting mandatory shots? I'm confused, am I missing something here?

he is not a jr ww..he did not capture a belt there which means he's not classified..he was the 130 ibf champ when he vacated to move up in weight im sure his team was told he'd be allowed to fight for the 135 ibf belt or highly ranked..wbo has done the same..if he intends to keep that rankin he must not fight for any other title..so the fight with demarco was fine