WBC mandatory defenses/Ajose Olusegun

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  1. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council banned Full Member

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    The mandatory defenses were discussed today at the WBC Convention starting with the strawweight division and proceeding on up to the heavyweights.
    Strawweight
    Champion: Oleydong Sithsamerchai
    Mandatory challenger: Juan Hernandez
    Light Flyweight
    Champion: Omar Niño Romero
    Mandatory Challenger: Adrian Hernandez
    Flyweight
    Champion: Pongsaklek Wongjongkam
    Mandatory Challenger: Edgar Sosa
    Super Flyweight
    Champion: Tomas Rojas
    Mandatory Challenger: Juan Jose “Goofi” Montes
    Bantamweight
    Champion: Fernando Montiel
    Mandatory Challenger: Winner of eliminator between Sasha Bakhtin and Christian Esquivel.
    Super Bantamweight
    Champion: Toshiaki Nishioka
    Mandatory Challenger: No mandatory for one year due to recent victory over Mandatory Rendall Munroe.
    Featherweight
    Champion: Elio Rojas (in recess due to surgery) Juan Carlos Burgos and Hozumi Hasegawa to fight for vacant title November 26, 2010. This winner will be obligated to fight two mandatories.
    Mandatory Challenger: Jhonny Gonzalez: 1st mandatory. Winner of ****** Savi and Cholatarn O. Piriyapinyo will be 2nd mandatory.
    Super Featherweight
    Champion: Vitali Tajbert
    Mandatory Challenger: Sergey Gulyakevich
    Tajbert is scheduled to defend against former WBC Feather champion Takehiro Aoh in Japan on November 2, 2010.
    Lightweight
    Champion: Humberto Soto
    Mandatory Challenger: Antonio DeMarco and Reyes Sanchez for Silver belt. Soto has written the WBC of plans to move up a weight division and vacate title. Soto and DeMarco are cousins and have stated they will never fight each other. When Soto moves up, silver champion will be elevated to full champion.
    Super Lightweight
    Champion: Devon Alexander
    Mandatory Challenger: Winner of upcoming fight between Ajose Olusegun and Ali Chebah. Regarding the WBC/WBO unification fight vs. Tim Bradley in January 29, 2011, the WBC will only recognize Alexander as WBC/WBO champion if he wins, but not Bradley if he wins. This stems from Bradley opting to relinquish the WBC belt prior to his unification with then WBO champ Kendall Holt.
    Welterweight
    Champion: Andre Berto
    Mandatory Challenger: Selcuk Aydin
    Super Welterweight
    Champion: Vacant (Winner of Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito will be WBC champion) Mandatory Challenger: No Mandatory until title filled
    Middleweight
    Champion: Sergio Martinez
    Mandatory Challenger: Sebastian Zbik (interim champion). #3 David Lemieux and #4 Marco Antonio Rubio to fight an eliminator. Also, #1 Julio Cesar Chavez, the WBC Silver champion. has yet to decide if he will compete at middleweight or back down at Super Welterweight.
    Super Middleweight
    Champion: Vacant (Winner of Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham will be WBC champion)
    Mandatory Challenger: No Mandatory until title filled. Winner of Froch and Abraham must face Kessler (Champion Emeritus due to eye injury). However, the WBC is also respecting the Super Six Tournament and how it plays out.
    Light Heavyweight
    Champion: Jean Pascal
    Mandatory Challenger: Has one year to make mandatory defense. It was voted unanimously voted by the board that the December 18, 2010 fight between Jean Pascal and Bernard Hopkins will be for the WBC Diamond Belt. The bout sold out in 48 hours- 16, 333 seats.
    Cruiserweight
    Champion: Krzysztof Wlodarczyk
    Mandatory Challenger: Francisco Palacios. Herbie Hide had decided to change promoters (from Arena Box), had not defended his WBC international title. Hide took part in an eight man, one night tournament, and then subsequently retired from the sport. Prior to this, Hide filed a lawsuit against the WBC, but it appears they have fallen flat.
    Heavyweight
    Champion: Vitali Klitschko
    Mandatory Challenger: Winner of final eliminator between Ray Austin and Odlianer Solis which will take place in Miami on December 17, 2010.
    Klitschko has requested the opportunity to make a voluntary defense against Tomasz Adamek on the 40th anniversary of Ali-Frazier I in Madison Square Garden in March, 2011. According to Tom Loeffler, head of K2 Promotions, HBO is even interested in this bout. Klitschko would then make his mandatory defense no later than June, 2011.
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  2. GazOC

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    What happened to Olusegun-Cheeba?
     
  3. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council banned Full Member

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    Date was cancelled by Chebah's promoter so has to be rescheduled. They must have found out how good Ajose is and need longer to prepare. The result will still be the same. Even they don't take the fight hopefully the WBA can elevate Ajose to the mandatory position to face Alexander or if Alexander loses to Bradley Ajose may end up fighting for the vacant title.
     
  4. Jaso

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    Ajose is a good fighter but his inactivity worries me.
     
  5. Right Hook

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    Is Olusegun v McCloskey not happening? I had heard a rumour that was going to happen before Christmas.
     
  6. Big Dunk

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    If Chebah pulls out McCloskey is next in line.
     
  7. Camm

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    This :deal

    Why has he been so inactive Olu? He was my favourite up and coming British based fighter a while back!

    My interest has now disappeared due to his inactivity!!
     
  8. mcguirpa

    mcguirpa Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The light-welter stuff is a load of nonsense. If Bradley beats Alexander he should be champ. Full-stop.
     
  9. Bajingo

    Bajingo Boxing Junkie banned

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    The WBC hate Bradley because he dumped the belt to avoid having to fight Alexander 60 days after he fought Holt. So he vacated and kept the WBO belt instead.
     
  10. The_Don1

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    yes well gay of the WBC not to recognise Bradley if he wins, didn't know Herbie Hide had retired?
     
  11. Right Hook

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    cheers...by the way that avatar is scary!
     
  12. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    So it'll be for the WBC Paper title?
     
  13. Scotty321

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    "Regarding the WBC/WBO unification fight vs. Tim Bradley in January 29, 2011, the WBC will only recognize Alexander as WBC/WBO champion if he wins, but not Bradley if he wins. This stems from Bradley opting to relinquish the WBC belt prior to his unification with then WBO champ Kendall Holt."

    I see the IBF has stripped Alexander as well for taking this fight. What a fn joke these alphabets are.
     
  14. Flea Man

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    Ajose is average. He'll never amount to anything on the World scene, hardly fights and has a terrible level of opposition.

    I wish him well but WTF has he done to deserve a ranking anywhere near the top 50? It shows how corrupt the WBC is and how meaningless belts are nowadays, especially with the apparently prestigious 'green belt' :rofl
     
  15. dftaylor

    dftaylor Writer, fanatic Full Member

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    Ajose is as average as they come.