Comments Thread For: Sulaiman: Lomachenko Is The WBC Lightweight Champion

[Boxing Goat]

Loma is the best lightweight, he'll be the No.1 in the division by far if he beats Lopez but ...

he holds a WBC belt that was handed him and he doesn't have to defend so just No.

So, who is the world champ then?

[Boxing Goat]

Follow up question: "So then Devin Haney is just a "regular" titlist with the #1 contender belt, not an actual WBC champion, right?"

This is called doing a 2 for 1. When it's convenient to promote Haney as the champion because he has a fight coming up that you want to sell tickets to and hype up, you call him champion. Then he goes on the bench for 4 months, while Lomachenko fights, and as Lomachenko's fight approaches, you bring up how he has the WBC belt and he's the champion.

2 for 1. In a sport with 4 sanctioning bodies and a billion weight classes. YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED, PURPOSEFULLY, AND SKILLFULLY.

Pretty much, but .....

Only the fans of Haney are being fooled. Loma is the best LW in the world and it's not debatable. This announcement is nothing new or unexpected.

[Jab jab boom]

So the wbc crated the franchise belt to allow their big name champions to avoid their high risk/low reward mandatories without worrying about stripped. As a result, they look like dumb hypocrites who have noe even further devalued their actual titles in favor of a fake belt they just invented.

['b']

I swear boxing has to be the most pants on head r_tarded sport at times. Diamond belt, franchise belt, chicken nugget belt, gold-coated chocolate belt blah blah. What a farce!

[famicommander]

Either Canelo and Lomachenko are still real champions and Haney and Charlo aren't champions, or Canelo and Lomachenko vacated and Charlo and Haney are the real champions. You can't have it both ways.

So pick one.

[Pigeons]

Doesn't seem to line up with how the WBC's own official website shows it.

https://wbcboxing.com/en/lightweight/

They're just trying to cash in. There's no integrity in this sport. Trusting that the sanctioning bodies care about the sport is like believing that the Soviet government cared about its citizens. F**ck the WBC and their mafia.

[nghtmr111]

I swear boxing has to be the most pants on head r_tarded sport at times. Diamond belt, franchise belt, chicken nugget belt, gold-coated chocolate belt blah blah. What a farce!

Who holds the chicken nugget belt?

[j0zef]

Just a moneygrab. As always.

['b']

Who holds the chicken nugget belt?

Better left to the imagination

[The3]

DUH he never lost the belt they just change the name of the belt