Klitchko Wasnt A Unification Bout Says Wilder

[Boxing Goat]

Wlad lost all his belts when he lost to Fury so there's no way he could have been in a unification fight right afterwards. He was fighting for a vacant belt so Wilder is right.

[LacedUp]

No it wasn't but klitschko had said he would only fight if the WBA put it on the line which is what held the fight being announced for a long while.

Eventually they did and he unification fight was born. Not sure why we are debating it now ? I mean Joshua has unified again since then!

You might be right. I just remember something about Klitschko and the WBA. Because he wanted to go in as champion or something. I don’t exactly remember but yeah who cares.

[LacedUp]

Wlad lost all his belts when he lost to Fury so there's no way he could have been in a unification fight right afterwards. He was fighting for a vacant belt so Wilder is right.

There’s plenty of ways. These orgs are the most corrupt crap organizations in history, so yeah don’t be surprised.

[kafkod]

Never heard that ever in my life. Its SOMETHING different I'll give you that, but its clearly no unification fight.

A unifying can't happen with only one champ going in. It needs two mfers with one or more belt each. Otherwise what are we unifying exactly? I'd say not a damn thing.


http://www.sportsdefinitions.com/box...ion-fight.html

Again the definition suggests we need two champions fighting to unify. Klitschko was highly respected still, but he was no champion.

This is simple. I don't think a ABC Group can change a long held definition of a word.

In boxing, unified titles are separate titles which are held by the same champion. A unification fight is a fight which unifies one or more titles.

That's my definition and I believe I know more about boxing and have as much authority as the anonymous person who posted that mistaken definition at the site you linked to.

[Robbie Barrett]

Wlad lost all his belts when he lost to Fury so there's no way he could have been in a unification fight right afterwards. He was fighting for a vacant belt so Wilder is right.

Did the fight make Joshua a unified champion? If yes then it was a unification fight.

It really isn't that difficult.

By your logic a fight for a vacant title isn't a world title fight.