WBA moving towards stripping Joshua

[Raggamuffin]

Joshua is the WBA heavyweight super champion, the IBF heavyweight world champion and the IBO heavyweight champion.

You're free to decide for yourself how valuable those championships are, but Joshua is definitely a champion.

No, he's not. Champions have either unified the titles, beaten the clear number 2, or have beaten the man who beat the man.

[MrRolltide91]

Holding all the belts is like trying to hold a handful of sand some is going to slip away and if you try to grab more you will gain it but lose more of what you originally had. It is kind of a pointless endeavor unless a guy fights 4 times a year and even then it is nigh impossible to keep them all for a long time.

Plus a champion almost always benefits from a belt being free because it allows a challenger to be built up to be seen as legitimate and a rival to the throne. Holding all the belts down stagnates things and makes it hard for challengers to be built up as worthy and worth anything to fight.

True......

[Hmabshir]

Anthony Joshua is pathetic! trying to impress the world by collecting trinkets but this could all be resolved by fighting for the only title that matters ( No you idiots I know you thought I was going to say the WBC ) the 'Lineal' title vs. the 'Bronze-Bomber' Wilder -- thats really the only thing that matters ; the #1. ( Deontay ) vs. the #2. ( Joshua ) but history will only remember Joshua as a Brit Hype-job paper champion, hiding behind his mandatories like his fellow Brit quitter Kell Brook who got battered and humiliated in his own home country forced to bend the knee before the American Errol Spence jr.

Eddie Hearn is shamelessly busy doing damage control with the media even going as far as doing his best parody of Deontay to draw attention away from the quacking Joshua is doing in the background -- his gullible nincompoop supporters eating it up, lining up to see this imposter sell out Arena's like that other fraud David Haye and the other joker Tony Bellend of the UK. Disgraceful.

Haye and Bellew are the biggest frauds in boxing.

[N/A]

No, he's not. Champions have either unified the titles, beaten the clear number 2, or have beaten the man who beat the man.

That's not how words work. Joshua won a championship and therefore is a champion. You're free to value his championship(s) as much or as little as you wish.

If your position is that he's not the lineal champion, that's your opinion. More power to you. If your position is that he's not a champion at all, that's not a matter of opinion, you're just flat out wrong.

[Pigeons]

Ortiz-Oquendo coming to a theatre near you.

[BigZ44]

They should just tell the WBA to **** off then. Let Ortiz fight whomever for the WBA title while Oquendo and Ustinov fight for their "other" belt. Beat the **** out of Pulev then come back for one of the other belts.

[Willy Wanker]

Screw the WBA.

It would be a great day in boxing if all the WBA champions (Super champions as well Regular, Interim, Regular interim, super interim, super duper, and what ever other version of champions they have) just dumped their belts in the garbage like Bowe did with the WBC.

All the abc titles suck, but the WBA is the biggest joke of them all.

[HAMMER77777]

it was always gonna happen

these sanctioning bodies are purely in the money making business so want their mando a year so they can collect the sanctioning fees

Ya, Im tired of this alphabet garbage. 1 champ at each weight class. Thats all we need.

[HAMMER77777]

Screw the WBA.

It would be a great day in boxing if all the WBA champions (Super champions as well Regular, Interim, Regular interim, super interim, super duper, and what ever other version of champions they have) just dumped their belts in the garbage like Bowe did with the WBC.

All the abc titles suck, but the WBA is the biggest joke of them all.

Exactly, brother!

[sicko]

Just take care of Ortiz first Eddie Hearn is a GREAT Relationship with the IBF clearly so he can't act like the IBF is putting pressure on him about the Pulev fight.

These are the responsibilities that comes with being a Champ and I respect Vitali and Wlad because they didn't do the diva stuff they took on whoever wherever during their reign. Even traveled to fight guys who really wasn't even worth traveling for but understand that was the duty of a Champion!

Really don't want to see Luis Ortiz vs Alexander Ustinov for a vacant WBA title

I personally think whoever gets Ortiz first (Wilder or AJ) is getting him at the right time so they need to jump on that. That being say I'm a AJ fan but I gotta call SOME AJ fans out, some of you seem TERRIFIED of Ortiz for AJ as WELL AS WILDER and I honestly don't know why! Ortiz haven't looked good lately AT ALL! He has looked every bit of his age!