Yordenis Ugas Issues Statement After WBA Elevation to Super Champion

[Combat Talk Radio]

Thank God, my agent, my team, family and fans today is a great day for me. Thanks to the WBA for raising me to Super Champion and doing what is best for Sport.

Manny Pacquiao is a legend and he will always be champion, his intention was Mggregor and now Ryan, but you cannot, behind your history, hijack a championship. This gives fans a chance to see a great unification fight at 147lbs.

I don't want this position for easy fights. My team has my consent for my next fight to fight Pacquiao if he wants to show who he is the true WBA champion or another of the champions for a great unification fight.

I am a warrior committed to his career and to his fans, who have fought and earned every penny and every opportunity. Thank you all and I can't wait to announce what's next. I am grateful and very excited #ThankGod #teamugas

[thedarkdragon11]

Yes! Louder Ugas!

Well deserved elevation for Ugas, and strip for GrandPac...

I rarely agree with stripping champs but this one's an exemption...

[Combat Talk Radio]

Too bad there's so much PBC hate that Ugas doesn't get more support for something that wasn't his fault in the first place.

All Manny had to do was follow the damn train CJ (fight Spence)!

[famicommander]

Ugas deserves a strap. He got robbed against Porter.