Tyson Fury- WBA (Super) Champ, WBO Champ, Lineal Champ Deontay Wilder- WBC Champ Charles Martin- IBF Champ Ruslan Chagaev- WBA (Non-Super) Champ Wladimir Klitschko Alexander Povetkin Luis Ortiz Anthony Joshua David Haye Steve Cunningham Vyacheslav Glazkov Bermane Stiverne Antonio Tarver Chris Arreola Shannon Briggs What does the future hold? WBA/WBO/Lineal- Fury vs. Klitschko II? Is Klitschko done? We need to find out. The winner needs to fight the winner of Wilder vs. Povetkin in my opinion. WBC- Wilder vs. Povetkin? It makes sense. The winner needs to fight the winner of Fury vs. Klitschko II. IBF- Martin vs. Glazkov II? This has to happen. Whoever wins should give Cunningham a shot. WBA/WTF?- Chagaev vs. Ortiz? I wouldn't be surprised if Briggs gets a shot here though. Does anyone really care about this belt? Who else matters? Joshua vs. Haye? Why not? Picks? I'll take- WBA/WBO/Lineal- Klitschko WBC- Wilder IBF- Martin WBA- Ortiz Haye Then- WBA/WBO/WBC/Lineal- Klitschko over Wilder, then he retires. IBF- Cunningham over Martin. WBA- Ortiz over Briggs. Haye waits for a shot at a vacant title, probably against Wilder. Other vacant titles are decided between Joshua, Tarver, Povetkin, and who knows? It's a stretch but it might happen.
Ortiz / Ustinov is due before mid year. Joshua due to fight in couple of months against TBA. Probably only way Wilder can duck Povetkin now is to fight Martin for a unification then Fury/Wlad winner. Haye could probably make big money by fighting Povetkin in Russia.
It's not about who is better... it's about what will probably happen and what people will watch. Briggs sucks, but people know who he is and some people even like him.
Don't think Parker will fight for a title this year, even a regular thing-me-bob. They're pretty keen on the WBO I think so an eliminator for Parker should be on the cards. With Martin as ibf champ that could open up a WBO elim. Between Joshua and Parker in the uk. If that doesn't happen look for Parker vs Fedosov, Ruiz. Briggs is WBA#4 so it's not completely unlikely he could end up with a big fight this yr, or be stripped of his ranking hopefully.
