WBA sets heavyweight championship tourney to determine one WBA champ!

[BrometheusBob.]

For those complaining about Fury 'fighting for his own title', what's happening is that WBA interim champ Ortiz is fighting Ustinov and then the winner of Fury/Klitschko will be ordered to make a mandatory defense. On the other side of the bracket for this 'tournament' WBA regular Chagaev gets to have a voluntary defense before his court mandated rematch against Oquendo. Then they are ordering a WBA super vs WBA regular unification.

They aren't ordering Fury to fight in a series of "eliminators" and are still recognizing Fury as the WBA super champ.

TLDR, Basically this:

This is unification its the WBA super vs WBA Regular vs WBA interim in a tournament to become the WBA undisputed champion

[Dr Rumack]

the thread should be permanently pinned to remind everyone that people will complain no matter what.

the WBA is finally ending (at least in the heavyweight division?) the multiple champion lunacy.

and some people are complaining?

unreal.

Agreed. The WBA have pissed all over boxing and have now signalled that they, at some, point might get around to mopping up that piss. Although naturally they can't rule out the possibility of spilling more piss in the meantime. It’s an heroic act and anyone who can’t see that probably can’t see that Bush did 9/11 either or that chemtrails are flooding you with oestrogen through your breakfast cereal. Google project blue beam.

[New England]

This is a better article explaining what went down

http://goo.gl/Alra33

that was f#cking sketchy

i'd be sweating bullets until i got on that plane.

[Pain~Lucy]

We have an opportunity to see Fury vs. Ortiz, possibly the two best heavyweights right now, and ya'll don't want to see it? Why not?

sure, we'll get to that, but its Wilder/povetkin vs Fury/Wlad

[Eff Pandas]

Okay so is the WBA legit trying to toss the interim & regular title then for all divisions? If thats the case fair enough lets let Oquendo in this "tournament". But I think the reality is some cats will drop there titles rather than be forced into potential subpar matchups for less money like with Oquendo so after doing all the title bs they've done that made them the laughing stock of the guys measuring corruption levels of abc groups they'll still be the laughing stock while the biggest names just venture to better fights til fighting for the WBA title vs a bigger name guy makes sense.

[sicko]

That Bracket is a JOKE!

[sicko]

Tournament setup is AWFUL, why have Luis Ortiz, Wlad and Fury all on the same side of the bracket? Ortiz vs Ustinov should switch places with Fres Oquendo on the Bracket. Also based on the WBA last Rankings, why not just have Fres Oquendo fight Shannon Briggs who for some reason is rated #4 by the WBA in the Heavyweight Division.

I like the idea of a Tournament but the bracket setup for this is bull****

[W1LL]

So when somebody wins the final, will the WBA do away with all the Super/Regular/Interim jargon and only have one title? Or will the winner be the Super champion, freeing up the Regular and Interim to be handed back out to some other fringe contenders?

[b00g13man]

WTF??? What's there to determine?

Lol @ Oquendo.

[bigjavi973]

@ fres oquendo