Comments Thread For: Hearn: After First Fury-Joshua Fight, WBO Title Will Have To Be Vacated

[tokon]

I have a feeling Fury will retire after the 1st fight, win or lose.

Yes, I suspect this too - ESPECIALLY if he wins!

[Fanofreason]

Fight is not happening anyways. Eddie screwed it up.

[DougalDylan]

1. The WBO gets paid twice why would they.

2. We get an undisputed champion why would you not want that,

3. Usyk I think got compensation and had to fight someone for the belt anyway Joyce easier than Joshua on paper. He gets the belt anyway post fight.

4. If you said no rematch they wouldn't fight they go fight other people and some other politics would get in the way. Unify now , right now no excuses. I want the fight now its great we get it given the pandemic .. don't care who wins .. give me the fight.

4. Do you work for the UFC ?

WBO should NOT let them fight if rematch clause exists. Either fight once with contractual obligation to fight Usyk or immediately strip the belt from AJ NOW!

[Pigeons]

So why not just vacate it now? Why keep it just for a false "undisputed" designation that is vacated immediately?

[REDEEMER]

"fast eddie" was told by arum to shut up

Why did Arum talk about how big the fight was going to be after he said that hours later ? Hearn told him how it is over the phone that’s why . Arum won’t be running the show behind closed doors we know how and who is actually going to be doing all the work in this one and it’s not Arum or Warren .

[DaNeutral.]

Undisputed for ten seconds is hardly undisputed though. It’s like Fury with the IBF belt.

True but technically it is a legitimate fight for undisputed and the winner will go down on paper as officially the undisputed champion. Those 2 are right now without doubt 1 and 2 by anybody who isn't looking to be salty so it's not like they are getting it cheap by sneaking around the better fighters.

Its a fight between the 2 men who stand at the top and hold all the belts. That's surely what any Boxing fan want.

[Monty Fisto]

WBO should NOT let them fight if rematch clause exists. Either fight once with contractual obligation to fight Usyk or immediately strip the belt from AJ NOW!

Yes, put a blocker in the way of an undisputed fight. That's what everyone wants!

[Motorcity Cobra]

Undisputed is watered down. You got fake undisputed with a title only one sanctioning body recognizes as a world title. The last two undisputed champions never defended and now these two are saying they won't defend either.

[Monty Fisto]

Whoever wins the 1st fight should throw the WBO belt in the bin on camera and invite usyk to rake around the garbage for his crappy belt

That would be a bad idea.

The first person to try this was Rid**** Bowe dumping the WBC belt in the trash. In his mind, it would make the belt look like trash, it would make Lewis look weak having to accept the belt and have him look in a position of power. In reality, it mad him look like a poor champion with no class, demonstrated how desperate he was to avoid fighting Lewis, and when Lewis took the belt, it lost none of its luster and he went on to be a great champion.

The act reflected poorly on Bowe and made no impact on Lewis or the belt. People remember Lewis as being a great HW champ. No one remembers Lewis and say, "Oh, but he got that belt from the trash."

It would be similar here. Fury or Joshua would end up looking like they had no class. Neither Usyk nor the WBO would be denigrated by the act -- they might even get a boost of public sentiment for being treated like shlt through no fault of their own.

[DougalDylan]

Look if you want to get salty ...

The WBC was a joke Duckus only defended in the US for 10 fights all against Haymon/King opponents.

The Ring is owned by GBP.

The WBA rankings are laughable.

The WBO is owned by Warren and laughable.

The lineal designation makes no sense as Klitschko was just awarded it and Fury retired.

The IBO is a gift in a Christmas *******.

So what we left with the IBF maybe.

Look it's 1 vs 2 massive fight lets just enjoy it, this is realistically as big as we can get.

Undisputed is watered down. You got fake undisputed with a title only one sanctioning body recognizes as a world title. The last two undisputed champions never defended and now these two are saying they won't defend either.