WBA stopped giving a shi t again

**juandabomb** · 02-07-2018, 01:49 PM

WBA is garbage ..but boxers still flocking to them

**Citizen Koba** · 02-07-2018, 01:51 PM

Originally posted by juandabomb

WBA is garbage ..but boxers still flocking to them

Course they are!

Titles for everyone!!!

**GhostofDempsey** · 02-07-2018, 01:58 PM

All of the sanctioning bodies are sketchy. Still wondering how they all come up with significantly different rankings month after month. WBC is the worst when it comes to inventing belts and some of the fights they are willing to sanction.

**1hourRun** · 02-07-2018, 02:02 PM

I think the writers and the boxing community can help by not recognizing the 'Regular' title

-- boxingscene and other news outlets recognize the WBA 'Regular' in its rankings by having its champion in bold font with the rest of the world titles ( IBF, WBC, WBO ) ; the informed fan know the WBA 'Super' is the only one that matters now -- we have no problem not recognizing 'Silver' titles by the WBC.

Its not up the WBA how we value its bull**** second rate title, thats on us.

**Eff Pandas** · 02-07-2018, 02:03 PM

They are all corrupt. But the WBA is funny with its 12 year plan to get down to one title or w/e that bs was/is.

**future hendrixx** · 02-07-2018, 02:08 PM

**Pigeons** · 02-07-2018, 02:23 PM

Originally posted by asgarth

Starting a couple years ago, WBA tried to do something right and get rid of the WBA super title. It was a slow process, but they actually got rid of some of the super titles.

Recently they started to create new super titles by elevating the regular title holder. At the same time they scheduled fights for the vacant regular title again.

1) Taguchi unified against Melindo and was elevated to super champ.
Carlos Canizales and reiya konishi are now scheduled to fight for the regular title.

2) The dorticos vs gassiev fight was elevated to super champ. Lebedev was announced to be champion in recess.
Right immediately the WBA scheduled Arsen Goulamirian (?) vs Ryad Merhy (??) for the regular title.

In short, boxing is never going to change

Damn. That's super disappointing. I guess the writing was on the wall when they approved Charr-Ustinov and Matthysse-Kiram for regular titles.

**boliodogs** · 02-07-2018, 02:25 PM

That is ******. There should only be THE champion. No super champion and no regular champion or any other strange type of champion. Just one champion and the others are all contenders rated from 1st contender to 10th contender. 15 contenders is 5 to many. For over 100 years there were 10 contenders for a champion to chose to fight. Now with 15 contenders some champions can look over them all and pick the easiest one to beat. That's what Horn just did. Champions should defend their titles at least twice a year and one of those defenses should be with the number 1 contender and the other defense against a boxer rated 10th or higher.

**asgarth** · 02-07-2018, 02:33 PM

Originally posted by Pigeons

Damn. That's super disappointing. I guess the writing was on the wall when they approved Charr-Ustinov and Matthysse-Kiram for regular titles.

The WBA WBC IBF poster had some arguments why those were scheduled and it was somewhat comprehensible.

The intention was to keep the regular title and get rid of the super title. So the Super dude had to fight the regular dude to make this happen.

Heavyweight was a special case, because of their mess with oquendo (who has a right to challenge for the title, dont ask me why) and briggs and browne, who tested positive. They just wanted to settle the mess with the WBA regular title, so Joshua wouldnt be bothered by it.

Peterson vacated his regular title and they needed a new regular title holder to face off against the super dude, so they could get rid off the super title. Matthysse Vs Kiram got scheduled. ****** rule, but that's how they operated.

But in the most recent cases they actually created new Super titles again, even though those divisions were already freed from the super title.

WBA stopped giving a shi t again