The champion-contender model is supposed to be one champion and a list of contenders. The champion can make voluntary defenses against ranked contenders until a clear #1 contender emerges as the mandatory. Right Noe Kovalev is the clear mandatory and if Stevenson doesn't fight him he should lose the label of a lineal champ.
That's how the system has always worked for all the sanctioning bodies.
That's how the system has always worked for all the sanctioning bodies.
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