Comments Thread For: WBO Served Itself, Not Boxing, By Making Canelo Mandatory

[Eastcoast]

Canelo is every bit as entitled to the mando spot as Khurtsidze.

Khurtsidze beat a prospect on short-notice and has just sat on the #1 spot since. Willie Monroe accepted a fight vs Khurtsidze in June, and Khurtsidze turned down the fight. A win right there would've cemented a mandatory shot at BJS, but Khurtsidze wanted to play it safe and has now gone all year without another fight. He's just like Jorge Heiland and Alfonso Blanco, these guys sat over a year at #1 w/o any serious fights b/c they wanted a payday w/o risk.

[Tom Cruise]

There should be way more boxing journalists calling BS on the sanctioning bodies corruptness and incompetence.

Good article.

More needed!

[kiaba360]

Canelo is every bit as entitled to the mando spot as Khurtsidze.

Khurtsidze beat a prospect on short-notice and has just sat on the #1 spot since. Willie Monroe accepted a fight vs Khurtsidze in June, and Khurtsidze turned down the fight. A win right there would've cemented a mandatory shot at BJS, but Khurtsidze wanted to play it safe and has now gone all year without another fight. He's just like Jorge Heiland and Alfonso Blanco, these guys sat over a year at #1 w/o any serious fights b/c they wanted a payday w/o risk.

I'm more angry at his team for allowing him to become inactive. WTF is Dibella doing?

[Califire209]

it goes to show you how corrupt the sanctioning bodies are in boxing they are the reason for the sports bad name and they are definitely the ones ruining boxing

[churchmouse]

Everyone already knew what this article has stated.

[Shadoww702]

Canelo is every bit as entitled to the mando spot as Khurtsidze.

Khurtsidze beat a prospect on short-notice and has just sat on the #1 spot since. Willie Monroe accepted a fight vs Khurtsidze in June, and Khurtsidze turned down the fight. A win right there would've cemented a mandatory shot at BJS, but Khurtsidze wanted to play it safe and has now gone all year without another fight. He's just like Jorge Heiland and Alfonso Blanco, these guys sat over a year at #1 w/o any serious fights b/c they wanted a payday w/o risk.

And this is probably why...

Hassan N’Dam destroys Alfonso Blanco in Round 1

http://www.************.com/2016/12/...lanco-results/

[TOBYLEE1]

The WBC does the same. These sanctioning bodies if you have a name that they can collect sanctioning fees they will accommodate that particular fighter in order to get the fee.

When lesser fighters have to really fight their way up and wait around.

[Shadoww702]

So tell me keith, where was all this outrage when andrade became mando to korobov??
So now posters and even writters in this forum choose to ignore that this is a common practice by the wbo?? Or is it only cuz it wont suit your agendas??
If you wrote a similar article about that vs andrade then i will eat crow cuz i didnt even care to search for one since im almost sure there isnt such a thing..

Because he didn't bring GGG 97,000 FANS down on them! You think this many ppl give a *** about Nutsize??? 99% probably never even seen him fight INCLUDING ME!

[Shadoww702]

Avtandil Kurbtsidze
Statistics

Nickname(s) Tazman
Rated at Middleweight
Height 5 ft 4 in
Won vacant EBA (extinct) Middleweight title.

If he's listed 5' 4" then it's safe to say he's probably even shorter than that by 2-3 inches...What the HECK is a EBA Champion?? Extremely Below Average Height???

[Eastcoast]

I'm more angry at his team for allowing him to become inactive. WTF is Dibella doing?

DiBella claimed he was trying to get Khurtsidze fights. But I think he was just trying to get him the 'right' fights. Like I said, they turned down a fight with Willie Monre for Showtime. It was the Provodnikov card, Monroe fought John Thompson instead.

Curtis Stevens would've accepted a fight with Khurtsidze in a heart beat. But I don't know how Roizer & Stark would've felt about it. Lou probably could've made Khurtsidze/Lee. Andy's willing to take a fight if it leads to a shot at Golovkin next.