IBF Double Standard? Spence-Ocampo Good, GGG-Martirosyan Bad?

[j0zef]

I disagree with that. They have their history - but since corruption scandal in early 2000's(I believe?) - they are the most legit, straight-up, honest of the organisations.

They have their rules and they follow it. Fury could've asked for exception - but his team didn't bother or didn't know the rules - and Fury didn't even fight since so it was for good after all to keep the title moving already.

IBF gets a lot of slack for poor mandatories - but people don't realise how many times some less qualified guys get into that position because top contenders are not interested in fighting in eliminators - and IBF just goes down through the ratings.
When guys like Jo-Jo Dan and Bizier were mandatories, it was because guys like Porter, Alexander, Bradley, Ponomarev - backed out of eliminators.
It's similar with Betterbiev now - as it seems that nobody is interested in fighting him so they go down to number 10-15 to find someone willing.

I think it's good the way they handle it - Anyone who wants opportunity and is highly ranked - can fight for it. If they back off, it's not IBF's fault - they can't force guys to compete.
Then even if mandatory challanger is not A class fighter, at least it keeps champion active. We saw how long Spence was out of the ring without mandatory - after beating Brook. Now at least he'll keep active.

I'm not against organizations that follow their rules, but at some point in time they need to use their thinking caps. Stripping Fury was ******. They made 2 fringe contenders fight for their title. If Martin didn't cash out against Joshua, we would have this borderline top20 fighter holding one of the 'world' titles hostage. It's a piss poor reflection on the boxing world.

Same thing with Golovkin - they couldn't strip him because they never mandated he fight Derevyanchenko (on short notice too). But everyone knows he's fighting Canelo next. Why would they ever put themselves and the rest of the division in this idiotic predicament, where he has to either forego the biggest boxing match in the world or lose one of his belts?

We don't need any more dilution with the 'world' titles. Everytime they do something ****** like this, they are doing a disservice to the boxing world.

Plus, what would Derevyanchenko rather do? I'm pretty damn sure he wants to fight Golovkin or Canelo, NOT win a vacant title from some borderline fighter.

[Larry the boss]

They have allowed GGG to fight **** mando's for years man

[Lester Tutor]

VADA and CONTE are the catalysts in pushing hair sample testing for Canelo and it happened. Canelo’s meat contamination supersedes Canelo being dirty. There was already doubt on Canelo as there was on Francisco Vargas. Canelo took it even further with hair testing.

With those at play, DiBella had the power to push the mando even fuller since K2 can’t use the excuse that Alvarez “cheated.”