After taking Ricky Burns to the hill and climbing the WBO rankings to number 2 cant help but feel sorry for Ray Beltran being overlooked for a shot at TC ,Toprank seem to be really fcucking him over stepping him aside to let crawford get the shot at Ricky and now handing Gamboa a shot at TC when hes never even campaigned at 135 , Very smelly from both Top Rank and the WBO imo, All this nonesense about voluntary and mandatory needs to stop , if your the champ you fight the next highest ranked fighter instead of all this political bullsheit between organizations and promoters
Ricky should have been allowed to rematch Beltran. Has any other fighter had 3 mandatories within 18 months?
He was. But Mitchell in September 2012 was a mandatory, then Gonzalez the following May was and so was Crawford just there with one voluntary amongst all that.
Guys been treated pretty unfairly imo , after the usnamaee fight on the pacman card i thought it was pretty much a done deal hed get Crawford according to Arum , With him having a variant belt and crolla another it could be a decent match up within the WBO
I really feel for Beltran even after getting robbed like he did againts Burns he still remained the humble nice guy in the post fight interview.