Holy Marquez! WBA sanctions Diaz/Marquez Fight!

Basically.

Diaz unifies the WBA/IBF/WBO belts. Therefore the WBA install him as 'super champion' given that he's the undisputed champion, and make the 'regular' belt vacate, meaning somebody else can also claim a version of the WBA title. Yusuke Kobori picked this up by beating Jose Alfaro.

Campbell then beat Diaz to take all three belts, the IBF, WBO & WBA 'super champion' belt. Meanwhile, Paulus Moses beat Yusuke Kobori for the 'regular' WBA belt.

Campbell was enforced with a mandatory from the IBF, Ali Funeka. Therefore he obviously had to take this fight to keep the IBF belt. The WBO sanctioned this belt also meaning he could also keep hold of that belt, as they didn't try and enforce a mandatory given that his previous mandatory defence against Joan Guzman was called-off.

The WBA however, from what I believe, wanted his to fight Paulus Moses, the 'regular' WBA champion, either at the time he was supposed to fight Funeka or immediately after. Nate however had his sights set on a bigger fight, the winner of this fight - Marquez vs Diaz. Therefore he didn't want to fight Paulus Moses after the Funeka fight because he wanted the winner of Marquez vs Diaz, so he then vacated.

I guess the WBA then realised the error of there ways in trying to enforce a Moses fight on Campbell and tried to give him the belt back, knowing he's a much bigger name and a much bigger endorsement. For whatever reason he didn't take it back - or couldn't given that he was over-weight and had to vacate all his titles on the scales.

 

exactly!!! :thumbsup

i couldnt give a rats ass about the politics of the sanctioning bodies
its just good that the fight becoming more important with some belts thrown in the mix

 

With Campbell not being able to make weight anymore this should be the fight for the big enchalada.

 

I'm guessing the WBA did this purely for endorsement purposes. They know Campbell is a much bigger name/endorsement than Paulus Moses, so tried to give him his belt back.

Now that Moses is the only champion, they obviously want either of JMM or Juan Diaz - again bigger names - to have a piece of the belt and therefore a bigger endorsement again.

 

big enchalada indeed my friend the biggest freaking enchalada at 135 :admin

 

I follow now thanks:good

 

JMM like his mexican rivals in MAB & Morales is gonna be earning his 3rd title in his 3rd weight class. Too bad, I think MAB & Morales wanted some easy belts at LW...seems like their gonna be going to Guzman & JMM and I doubt MAB & morales are on their level anymore.

 

JMM could be the first 4 weight Mexican champ.

 

If I was Marquez I would tell them to shove their super title right up their ass. Remember what happened to him at 126? He was stripped of 1 title for not fighting a mandatory and therefore lost the other because it was a super title and since he no longer held 2 titles he could no longer be a super champion.

 

126, 130, 135

 

patschI was thinking that

 

If the WBA "regular" champ was a legitimate top 10 fighter at 135, then this move would **** me off... But we can all agree that JMM or Diaz are more deserving of the WBA belt than Paulus Moses, so I'm ok with this.

 

I ment at 140. He'll move up eventually.

 

You know this???I did hear Hatton mention his name which supports your view

 

The winner of Hatton-Pac has been mentioned countless times as a possibility for Marquez. He has a score to settle with Pacquiao, if he beats Hatton it will definately happen, mark my words.

If Hatton wins, I'm again pretty sure it's a fight that'll come off. A fight between Hatton coming off a win over the P4P #1 against Marquez, or the actual P4P #1 coming off another great win against Marquez, the #2, would be bigger than any potential fight at 135.

Particularly given that Nate's moved up to 140 aswell now, Marquez may also look at that fight. I mean who is there now at 135? A lot of good names, but hardly any great one's, maybe Guzman but that's pretty much it - obviously Diaz aswell.