Guys like Joshua has a great opportunity to become a World Heavyweight champion right now then. Easy opportunity... without fighting guys like Fury or Wilder.
As much as I'd love to see an American hold the belts, Martin doesn't have even one fight on his record that shows he's earned a shot. Glazkov has faced a decent level of competition, but he still has that draw against Malik Scott. Who's palm got greased for that number one rating?
Fury is in a unique position. He can tell all of the alphabet boys to shove it. Everybody knows that he's the man who beat the man. And who the ...heck is the IBF to mandate who anyone should fight. It used to be tradition for a long reigning former champion to automatically be granted a rematch (though, not necessarily an immediate one). You didn't need a rematch clause.
IBF officially lost all credibility. Would be nice to see it just blink out of existence at this point. Yeah, who cares about the two best heavyweights in the world fighting again for the title, everyone wants to see a prospect and a fringe top 15 hw fight for a title! Oh wait, no one does? Its only the nice folks at IBF because they are totally corrupt with unmatched hubris? Oh, yeah, I guess that makes more sense.
I can't really blame the ibf here becuase it's in there rules they have to obey the mandatory and I'm all in favour of mandatorits but this is ridiculous . Should be a clause in there for long reigning champions to have a rematch superseding mandatoties. If I was the ibf I would be changing that rule right now. I think the ibf had to do this our could have been in danger of getting sued Think about it , they will lose serious money becuase they would get a lot more sanctioning fees from fury Klitschko 2 and their heavyweight belt went from prostigous to completely meaningless wbf level overnight
There's absolutely no excuse for this. 1. They should have anticipated this possibility and allowed for rematch clause exertions in their rules 2. They should change the rules as soon as the fight happened if they wanted to be consistent or 3. They just shouldn't enforce such an absurd rule.
I agree with you completely but if they had this in yhere rule book there hands were tied they could have faced a lawsuit. This decision is actually not in there best interests at all, they get way less sanctioning money and there belt becomes meaningless. The ibf seemed to not even try to make glazkov wait which is worrying
Same thought here. However I don't think going for it is the best choice for his career as he'd be considered a paper champ, cherry picker, ducker or just an ordinary fighter among the elite. Making himself a name beating top heavyweights before challenge anyone for a title would be smarter and fun to watch. Besides I want to see him against Povetkin in the future :thumbsup.
Its the smart move for Joshua to try to gun for this now. He'd still have to beat decent contenders to get there. Then he'd have negotiating ability with a belt. The one (probably futile) hope I have about this bs is that maybe Joshua picks up this belt by beating some solid contenders and making himself clearly in the top 3, and then the other (real) belt holders fight him to completely unify. That would be a three good fights ending in a good result.