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I don't believe mandatories are enforced 8-9 months. I thought they were anywhere from 12 - 18 months? Where did you get 8-9 from?
Here's a counter question for you: Take out the IBO for a second. How is he honoring the WBA , IBF and WBO belts as he's only fighting twice a year (2013, 2014, 2015)?
What the sanctioning organizations care about is getting their fees, not so much getting their own mandatory challenger in every 6 months. I think Wlad always bills all his belts so he probably pays sanctioning fees each defense? Probably keeps the sanctioning bodies happy.
It's impossible to honor all 3 mandos from 2013-2015 which is 36 months, while fighting twice a year when he has to defend it at least 9 times in 3 years because you have to defend it every 9 months, and 9 monthsx4 is 36 months, and 36/12 is 3, so it's 3 times in 3 years, but you have to multiply it by 3 since he has 3 belts, so it's 9 times in 3 years or 3 times a year. So he'd have to fight at least 3 times a year to be honoring it. :deal
Each WBO World Champion except in the Heavyweight Division shall defend his title at intervals not greater than nine (9) months counting from the date of the acquisition thereof or from the last compulsory defense, as the case may be, in a twelve (12) round fight, against the Mandatory Challenger, as determined by the Championship Committee according to these Regulations, unless an exception is made pursuant to these Regulations. For reasons unique to the Heavyweight Division, the WBO World Champion in the Heavyweight Division shall defend his title at intervals not greater than twelve (12) months counting from the date of the acquisition thereof or from the last compulsory defense as the case may be in a twelve (12) round fight, against the Mandatory Challenger, as determined by the Championship Committee according to these Regulations, unless an exception is made pursuant to these Regulations. I can check WBA, and WBC rules too if you want.
I think it has to do with Page 10 of the "Rules" ---> "Contest Rules" : 5.E. Unification Contests 2. WBA, WBC and WBO Champions Since Wlad is champ with the other sanctioning bodies he gets a break.
Copy paste what it says. If he gets a "break", because he has so many titles, why not ignore the Leapai fight, and take a different mando for another sanctioning body? He could simply wait for Leapai to fight again, and Leapai would lose if he fought someone half decent and then took the fight.
Well it's every 9 months, and my point is he clearly didn't have to take the fight since they weren't going to strip him for not defending within that time. He could have waited for Leapai to lose, and fought the winner.
wlad could have simply waited for leapai to lose and took the next guy, it wasn't like he had a dead line to fight leapai.
fair point, but wlad clearly hasn't honored the sanctioning bodies rules, so he could have waited Leapai out to see what would happen at the least. dude showed 0 protest, and fought him right away, this means that he chose to take an easy touch. if he waited it out and leapai sat on his ass and the WBO gave him a dead-line or drop his belts I'd agree that he was forced. If he did this I'm sure the WBO would force Leapai to take another fight, or let Wlad get away wtih not fighting him. Even if they didn't it would have shown on his side that he truly didnt want an easy touch.
Newsflash, when many more people talk about person A than person B, and person A is held to a higher standard than person B (being that they are widely considered the best boxer in the world, along with being the highest paid athlete in the world) then person A will usually receive more criticism to go along with that as well. Critical thinking 101. This thread is yet another fail, trying to be oversensitive and trying to justify Mayweathers decisions by using flawed logic and emotion.
I'd think that about you, but it wouldn't be thinking, it would be stating facts . Your grasp of the English language is embarrassingly bad, unless it's written completely different in Ireland.