Comments Thread For: Shannon Briggs to Fres Oquendo: I See In Your Eyes You're Scared

[suzuky23]

He should be scared of Briggs.

- fought 12 rounds with Vitali
- retired George Foreman
- wobbled Lennox Lewis
- highly motivated
- 53 knockouts

So Fought Klitschko in 2010- and lost.
Beat a 48 yr old wash up Foreman by MD. 1997.
Lewis ko'd his ass in 5 ... 1998 ....
What is your point ????

[Real King Kong]

[Fabes88]

they did.
joshua and klitschko just fought for it. " regular" belt
is not world championship.

The regular belt is a world championship. The interim belt isn't. This essentially is the same belt Ali won. The "super championship" was created in 2000

[K Man]

Tv

Does anyone know if there will be any tv coverage ?

[joe strong]

The regular belt is a world championship. The interim belt isn't. This essentially is the same belt Ali won. The "super championship" was created in 2000

Lewis was stripped of title after agreeing to fight WBC challenger, Michael Grant first and then John Ruiz. Ruiz challenged this decision in court on the basis of a clause in the Lewis-Holyfield rematch contract that said Lewis's first bout as undisputed champion would be against the WBA's number one contender. For this reason, the WBA then created the Super belt...

Super titles...
The WBA recognises the title holders from the WBC, WBO, and IBF organisations. The WBA refers to a champion who holds two or more of these titles in the same weight class as a "Super Champion", "Unified Champion", or "Undisputed Champion". This applies even if the WBA title is not one of the titles held by the "Undisputed Champion. In September 2008 for example, Nate Campbell was recognized as the WBA's "Undisputed Champion" at lightweight due to holding the WBO and IBF titles as well, while the WBA's "Regular" champion was Yusuke Kobori.
If a fighter with multiple titles also holds the WBA's title, the fighter is promoted to "Super Champion" and the WBA title—which is then referred to as the "Regular" title—becomes vacant for competition by other WBA-ranked boxers. As a result, the WBA's official list of champions will often show a "WBA Super World Champion" and a "WBA World Champion" for the same weight class, instead of simply "WBA Champion. The WBA has even been known to recognize three different fighters as one form of champion or another in the same weight class ("Super", "Regular", and "interim champion"), and there have been occasions where two different WBA "World" champions have defended their own versions of the same title, in the same weight class, on the same night, in two different parts of the world.
A WBA champion may be promoted to "Super Champion" without winning another organization's title: Chris John, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Anselmo Moreno are examples. The WBA will also promote their titlist to a "Super" champion when he successfully defends his title five times...

What a confusing mess the WBA created with this ****** super & regular stuff. I still don't consider Briggs/Oquendo a world title fight...

[Chrismart]

This sure is a weird fight.

[Fabes88]

Lewis was stripped of title after agreeing to fight WBC challenger, Michael Grant first and then John Ruiz. Ruiz challenged this decision in court on the basis of a clause in the Lewis-Holyfield rematch contract that said Lewis's first bout as undisputed champion would be against the WBA's number one contender. For this reason, the WBA then created the Super belt...

Super titles...
The WBA recognises the title holders from the WBC, WBO, and IBF organisations. The WBA refers to a champion who holds two or more of these titles in the same weight class as a "Super Champion", "Unified Champion", or "Undisputed Champion". This applies even if the WBA title is not one of the titles held by the "Undisputed Champion. In September 2008 for example, Nate Campbell was recognized as the WBA's "Undisputed Champion" at lightweight due to holding the WBO and IBF titles as well, while the WBA's "Regular" champion was Yusuke Kobori.
If a fighter with multiple titles also holds the WBA's title, the fighter is promoted to "Super Champion" and the WBA title—which is then referred to as the "Regular" title—becomes vacant for competition by other WBA-ranked boxers. As a result, the WBA's official list of champions will often show a "WBA Super World Champion" and a "WBA World Champion" for the same weight class, instead of simply "WBA Champion. The WBA has even been known to recognize three different fighters as one form of champion or another in the same weight class ("Super", "Regular", and "interim champion"), and there have been occasions where two different WBA "World" champions have defended their own versions of the same title, in the same weight class, on the same night, in two different parts of the world.
A WBA champion may be promoted to "Super Champion" without winning another organization's title: Chris John, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Anselmo Moreno are examples. The WBA will also promote their titlist to a "Super" champion when he successfully defends his title five times...

What a confusing mess the WBA created with this ****** super & regular stuff. I still don't consider Briggs/Oquendo a world title fight...

Because the super championship was created after I do still feel the regular championship is a full world title. But when it's devalued with fights such as these I can understand why you wouldn't lol.

WBA really did create a steaming pile of **** and funnily enough it all stemmed from a lawsuit from Ruiz. Similar to the situation we are in now

[billfifty]

Let's go champ!