In a very controversial move, the WBC board of governors has accepted Vasiliy Lomachenko petition to fight for the vacant WBC lightweight title.
A fight between mandatory challenger, Luke Campbell, and Lomachenko, has now been officially ordered for the vacant WBC belt.
Lomachenko already holds the WBO and IBF world titles at 135-pounds - and now steps over all of the ranked WBC contenders to get a title shot.
Mikey Garcia, who the sanctioning body named as the WBC Emeritus champion, reserves his right to fight for the lightweight title.
A tournament will be ordered to determine the mandatory challenger of the division with the following fights.
Silver champion Zaur Abdullaev must fight Devin Haney, and Teofimo Lopez must face Javier Fortuna. The winners of these matches will fight each other to determine the mandatory contender of the division.
Abdullaev, Haney and Lopez were all expecting to get in line to fight for the vacant WBC title, and now have to go through a tournament which could play out until the end of 2020.
Garcia was initially ordered to face Campbell, but instead moved up to the welterweight division to challenge IBF world champion Errol Spence.
Spence dominated Garcia over twelve rounds to retain his belt. And Garcia, who moved up by two full weight divisions, was unlikely to return to 135-pounds and is going to fight at 140 or 147 next.
