Should the IBF strip Brook if he fights Pacquiao next?!

[Eff Pandas]

And those are the old rankings.

You're right my bad. I hijacked from f!ghtnews which is my go to for rankings cuz the abc sites are so clunky to me + f!ghtnews gots all the rankings but they all do seem dated this time around. f!ightnews slacking.

1 Errol Spence Jr.
2 Jeff Horn
3 Andre Berto
4 Bradley Skeete
5 Konstantin Ponomarev
6 Charles Manyuchi
7 Eddie Gomez
8 Carlos Ocampo
9 Jose Benavidez
10 Ahmed El Mousaoui

So I guess Berto is the sexiest possible opponent next. I've seen stuff where Horn seems good to go with a Spence fight so it might not even get to Berto.

[PivotandRoll]

That sounds good, but the reality is if Brook vacates or is stripped Spence will be fighting a unsexy opponent, most likely, for the vacant IBF strap. Here's the current rankings:

1. NOT RATED
2. Errol Spence Jr.
3. Konstantin Ponomarev
4. Jeff Horn
5. Lamont Peterson
6. Leonard Bundu
7. Bradley Skeete
8. Charles Manyuchi
9. Eddie Gomez
10. Andre Berto

Spence vs Peterson seems about the most interesting fight thats possible for Spence.

Peterson ahead of Diego Chaves??? He is the person who should be sitting at number one, only inactivity lost him is position.

[GMAN SUPREME]

NOPE its a unification no way will the ibf strip brook.spence's overrated ass will continue to wait.

[boliodogs]

Brook should be striped if he fights anybody but Spence next.What good are rules if they aren't enforced. Spence is the best welterweight in the world and he is in his prime. He shouldn't have to wait another year to 18 months be a champion. Neither Brook or Pacquiao fight very often. Pacquiao just fought. If he fought Brook it would be 6 to 8 months from now. The winner of a Brook-Pacquiao fight would wait another 6 to 8 months before fighting Spence. That is too long for Spence to wait to get his title shot.

[BrometheusBob.]

I think its ok to skip a mando for a unification imo but Brook vs Spence interests me more

[GMAN SUPREME]

Brook should be striped if he fights anybody but Spence next.What good are rules if they aren't enforced. Spence is the best welterweight in the world and he is in his prime. He shouldn't have to wait another year to 18 months be a champion. Neither Brook or Pacquiao fight very often. Pacquiao just fought. If he fought Brook it would be 6 to 8 months from now. The winner of a Brook-Pacquiao fight would wait another 6 to 8 months before fighting Spence. That is too long for Spence to wait to get his title shot.

get a clue the rules allow you to take a unification over any mandatory so brook will not be stripped that's a fact.spence is far from the best welterweight in the world stop overrating him it makes you look foolish.

[Dip_Slide]

Brook should be striped if he fights anybody but Spence next.What good are rules if they aren't enforced. Spence is the best welterweight in the world and he is in his prime. He shouldn't have to wait another year to 18 months be a champion. Neither Brook or Pacquiao fight very often. Pacquiao just fought. If he fought Brook it would be 6 to 8 months from now. The winner of a Brook-Pacquiao fight would wait another 6 to 8 months before fighting Spence. That is too long for Spence to wait to get his title shot.

Finally someone that agrees with me! You know if I thought that the winner of Brook vs Pacquiao would definitley fight Spence I'd be all for the fight, but we know that Pacquiao would never fight Spence because he's dangerous and because of Haymon and Arum, and Brook will definitley vacate after the fight and will probably fight Amir Khan at 150 or something, this while forcing Spence to wait another 8 months or maybe a year to get his shot at a damn vacant title, that's just not fair.

The only thing I disagree with is people claiming that Spence is the best welterweight in the world, he definitley is not, but neither is Brook nor Thurman nor Garcia nor even Pacquiao, a lot of fights has to happen to determine who the best is and I also feel like Spence can beat all of them, but won't give him the credit until he does it in the ring.