I Think Al Haymon Orchestrated the Theft of Fury's IBF Title

Fury is more motivated to fight Wilder right now than he is Wladamir. He owes Wlad the rematch though...common courtesy.

If Wilder fights for that IBF title against that bum then someone needs to sue that Haymon b*tch and boxing needs a goverment intervention. Literally becomes fraud.

 

You'd think Haymon actually screwed these losers.:-(

 

I suspect you are entirely correct...

 

I've heard crazier theories.

 

What IBF did with Fury was perfectly fine. It seems odd to some people as the corrupt bodies such as WBC or WBA never enforce their rules so people have the perception that a champ is free to fight anyone he likes anytime he wants. WBC should have done the same with Canelo but they didn't.

How Martin got a belt shot without ever beating anyone in the top 100 is another story though. It should've been someone else.

 

Kathi Duva orchestrated the theft of Fury's title.

Wilder was supposed to fight Glazkov, but Duva pulled him out of that and got them to strip Fury so Glazkov could fight a soft touch for the belt.

But Glazkov blew it.

She's great at screwing things up.

 

Glazkov would never make that kind of money fighting Wilder. It was the only logical choice to pick the IBF fight, not some big conspiracy to get IBF strip off Fury.

 

He'd have made more fighting the Klitschko-Fury II winner. Glazkov took less money to fight for a vacant belt ... and it blew up in his face. (And Duva's.)

That's what you get for trying to steal someone's belt.

 

Haymon also pulled Martin out of his fight with Breazeale to fight Glazkov. Not sure who the IBF would've put forth if Martin took the Breazeale fight instead.

 

Carlos Takam. Andy Ruiz. A rematch with Steve Cunningham. They were all up next in the ratings.

None of them were worthy of a title fight.

The IBF could've just stuck with Fury - Glazkov could've let the rematch take place for a hefty step-aside fee and a couple million-dollar title challenge.

They all (IBF, Glazkov, Duva) got what they deserved. Charles Martin as champ.

 

When all else fails....blame Haymon

 

Haymon is balck and so is the IBF :deal

But anyhow, it was rather strange how fast they stripped Fury. They could have waited to see if Glazkov would have accepted a step-aside fee. But i digress.
IBF WANTED A BLACK CHAMPION! (probably not the case)

 

I totally agree with this.
It was unfortunate for Fury to lose his belt, but all the IBF did is enforce their own rules. It would have been unfair to Glazkov if he had to wait out his chance because Fury had signed of on a contract with a rematch clause in it to avoid the pursebids at the last moment not to have to fight in Russia.
That's not Glaskov's problem and that's not the IBF's... at least it shouldn't be. Otherwise we get Golovkin like situations in wich he constantly gets shafted because of exceptions and empty promises.

What if the next fight after is a unification with Wilder's WBC belt? And then the next fight the mandatory defence against Povetkin (WBC), followed by the WBA tourney winner?

IBF did the right thing, allowing Glaskov to fight for the vacant belt. But like said, Martin shouldn't have been in there.

 

It's not a perfect situation but the IBF are consistent. The contracted rematch between Fury and Klitschko is a private agreement between two individuals and should not concern the IBF. Fury did not have to agree to a rematch clause but will have got a bigger payday because he did, and he knew the consequences.