Fury and Wilder have been taken off boxrec...

9 months and a title holder should have to unify or defend. That’s 6 months to get a fight sorted and 3 months contingency for a genuine injury (not pretending to have COVID etc) otherwise they vacate is how I think it should be.
Obviously it will never happen.

 

Tyson Fury

 

If only the bodies would apply such a ruling, but even the independent ranking bodies seem to be on a mission to out-do each other in regards to leniency shown to the fighters.

Boxrec seem to have an automatic 18 month cut off.
PBO have a cut off of 12 months unless they have a fight lined up (though they might have extended that due to Covid)
The Ring - did eventually strip Fury during his retirement. But I suspect they will hold off until the trilogy fight on the 20 month mark.
The TBRB - seems to be if you don't sign to have a fight within 18 months you get removed. Which must make them the most lenient of the lot.

In fairness, The Ring and TBRB take the stance of wanting to maintain a lineage that transfers within the ring, but I much prefer your suggestion as it would force fighters to, you know, fight.

 

I want you to think about this for a minute. You are accusing Wilder of taking the WBC belt hostage by not *unifying*??

 

I dunno.. He's kind of a throwback to the bareknucklers and early gloved champions, who would take years off, refuse to face challengers, and use the break to indulge in substance abuse. Followed by being whipped back into shape for the next big fight. It's almost nostalgic, really. Sullivanesque.

 

I see they have elevated Lewis to #1 all time on active or inactive. Reading too much into tko6 for my liking.

 

Fury isn't very interested in being a professional boxer. He wasted a year of Vlad's life, and now has jerked Joshua and Wilder around for another year. He should retire and let the fighters fight.

 

I'm personally far more interested in the hopes that Fury gets KTFO (as unlikely as many think that is).

However, I'd be quite happy to see Wilder and Joshua go at it.

 

Except Haymon will never allow Wilder to he is too afraid of losing the belt to Matchroom.

 

That said Ring Magazine do a lot questionable things and are almost as bad with ratings.

Just looking at the HW ratings - Wilder 4 ranked in the top 5, Ortiz and Rivas in the HW top 10 is joke.

 

What's your confusion here? Wilder refused to fight other belt holders for his title. That's holding the belt hostage.