Comments Thread For: IBF: Indongo Must Face Lipinets Next, No Crawford Unification

[deathofaclown]

The IBF are the biggest **** blockers in boxing.

[original zero]

So your position is that he was supposed to request another unification in the 48 hour window he had after beating Burns before they ordered the mandatory? You truly believe he and his team had time to come to any preliminary agreements with Crawford in that amount of time? Or are you saying that Indongo was supposed to be in negotiations with Crawford while training for Burns and while Crawford is preparing to fight Diaz?

No, my position is that Crawford is unavailable. So how do you duck your mandatory for a unification when the other champion has an upcoming fight?

Fight your mandatory and then the two winners can unify.

[original zero]

The IBF are the biggest **** blockers in boxing.

What are they blocking? Crawford is unavailable. The mandatory is overdue. The IBF just allowed a unification to trump the mandatory. They're not going to allow a hypothetical unification six months from now to delay the mandatory further. Crawford has a fight scheduled.

[Bronx2245]

Oh well, back to the regularly scheduled programming! Somebody tell me where is Amir Imam? Can we see a rematch with Granados while we wait for Crawford and Indongo?

[Tom Cruise]

I understand, but it's not like Indongo and crawford are in negotiation for the fight next. Indongo and crawford can fight if they both win their next fights.

Call me synical, but the longer the fight takes to make, the less likely it is to happen. Especially with all the belts at stake.

You can say they just need to get these fights out the way, but then youll just get one of the other bodies enforcing a mando. Then maybe Crawford wants to move up or fight someone else who brings more money.

These belts come and go so often that its almost impossible to get them all in one fighters hands (surely what all boxing fans want). This is an opportunity to make it happen and instead we are gonna get Indongo vs Lipinets. Lipinets is a guy i like but its not like he has been ****ing the door down. Still a prospect really.

[Tom Cruise]

Fury was a mandatory and had no obligation to give a rematch clause. He had a guaranteed title shot without a rematch clause. He sold Klitschko a rematch clause because he didn't think he was going to win.

The IBF mandatory was overdue and Klitschko-Fury was sanctioned on the condition the winner would face the IBF mandatory. Both fighters promised the IBF the winner would fight the mandatory, then they hid a rematch clause from the IBF to trick them into sanctioning the fight.

IBF had no choice but to strip Fury for refusing to fight the overdue mandatory.

And Charles Martin wasn't the mandatory. It was Glazkov. Blame main events.

If your rules are favouring your champ having to fight a fringe contendor over a decade long champion whose only just lost his titles then the rules need changing.

Like i said at the time its all well and good strictly enforcing mandatories, but if the mandos are **** then they may as well not bother.

Comes down to shocking rankings at the end of the day. All of the orgs suffer from it.

[TheUptownKid]

Lipinets is super available to be hit and short. He was in a war with Zella or whatever before he got the kd and Indongo looks leagues better than Zella. Terrible matchup for lipinets but it's a shot make it count

[Mr. Luthor]

No, my position is that Crawford is unavailable. So how do you duck your mandatory for a unification when the other champion has an upcoming fight?

Fight your mandatory and then the two winners can unify.

Crawford is fighting in May. Indongo just won this past weekend. Too early to mention ducking. Also it's ridiculous to suggest anyone would "duck" Lipinets and then get in the ring with Crawford. The IBF not allowing Indongo to pursue a undisputed unification fight with the winner of Crawford vs Diaz is pathetic.

[original zero]

If your rules are favouring your champ having to fight a fringe contendor over a decade long champion whose only just lost his titles then the rules need changing.

You're asking the IBF to play favorites and bend the rules for superstars, something they won't do. Everybody is treated equally by the IBF. Fury was allowed to step in front of the IBF mandatory on the condition he would give them a shot. He broke his promise.

[original zero]

Crawford is fighting in May. Indongo just won this past weekend. Too early to mention ducking. Also it's ridiculous to suggest anyone would "duck" Lipinets and then get in the ring with Crawford. The IBF not allowing Indongo to pursue a undisputed unification fight with the winner of Crawford vs Diaz is pathetic.

The mandatory is overdue. Indongo was allowed to delay the mandatory so he could unify. Now he must face his mandatory. He can't sign for another unification right now because Crawford isn't available. You can't duck your mandatory because you're waiting to see if it's possible to unify later on.

These mandatory fighters have rights. They've won eliminators. They're not going to sit around waiting forever.