Originally posted by Ca$ual Fan
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Nice try revising history.
Ocampo was actually ordered to fight an eliminator for the mandatory position BEFORE Ugas was ordered to fight Ray Robinson for his own title eliminator.
At the time Ocampo was ordered to fight his eliminator, Ugas was still ranked ELEVENTH in the rankings.
He only shot up to number 2 after he beat Ray Robinson.
The IBF ordered that Ugas vs Robinson ALSO be an eliminator as a BACK UP because they didn't think Ocampo would take the Errol Spence fight because he was still a young prospect.
Ugas shot up to second while Ocampo remained third BECAUSE Ocampo's opponent for the title eliminator pulled out on the week of the fight.
So Ocampo didn't get to fight his eliminator but that was not his fault, he was ordered to fight an eliminator before Ugas while Ugas was eleventh in the rankings, and therefore deserved first crack at Spence.
"On July 2017, the IBF ordered a title eliminator between Ocampo and Konstantin Ponomarev. The winner will be the mandatory challenger to IBF champion Errol Spence Jr.[3] The fight was later called off as Ponomarev pulled out for undisclosed reasons.[4]"
The above is an extract from Ocampo's Wikia page.
I got more proof for you. Hold on...
https://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/...imination-bout
I'm not done.
https://*************/watch?v=ylzQ8mHVSQE
This ish is thoroughly explained in the above link.
Spence fought his RIGHTFUL mandatory Ocampo. If Ugas had been the RIGHTFUL mandatory, Spence would have fought Ugas and smashed him too.
And I REPEAT! The IBF is the most legit organization out of the alphabet orgs. They go strictly by the book.
Spence didn't win a vacant title which means the IBF cannot make him fight two mandatories back to back. After Ocampo was RIGHTFULLY given his mandatory shot, Spence was allowed a voluntary defense before he could be ordered to defend again.
Could he have fought Ugas as a voluntary? Sure, he could have. But Ugas was a no name with no achievements in boxing at the time. Spence was looking for names on his record.
It's only after Ugas gave Porter trouble that people began to rate Ugas as one of the top five/six welterweights.
And even then Spence has bigger fish to fry with unifications with Pac and Crawford. Unless Ugas becomes his madatory, like he could have been if he didn't run to the WBA and fought Porter for the title eliminator in a rematch, then there is no need to fight Ugas.
Don't let me catch you spreading that Ugas being ducked by Spence garbage around here again.
Spence didn't duck that fool, that fool is the one running, going to a different org every time Spence comes around.
What's he gonna do when Spence unified with Manny and gets the WBA, will he suddenly feel like he wants to compete for the WBO?
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