Lomachenko to become first Undisputed LW since Pernell Whitaker

Loma has become the "Franchise" WBC champion... some bullshirt WBC created belt, so they could steal the belt away from him and hand it to a PBC fighter.
Becoming undisputed nowadays is not just hard for you having to be the division's best, you firstly have to circumvent all ABC bull, and be backed by a promoter or a nationality that prevents you from getting stripped. Then get the other beltholders in the ring with you, believing they have a chance, or at least a huge payday as a lamb to the slaughter.
Loma cut his own payday to get Lopez in the ring, but he couldn't prevent getting his belt taken away by the WBC crooks and replaced by a worthless trinket with a fancy name.

 

The motives were money! Loma won the WBC 135 belt and just over 2 months later they handed it to Haney. It's obvious as F.
Funny that Sulaiman says Loma is still the champion, cause what does that say about Haney's so called WBC championship?

definitely.

 

Loma being franchise champion is actually a soft way of WBC stripping his belt.

To be a complete and undisputed champion, he still needs to fight Haney even if he wins against Lopez.

 

How can Loma be the WBC champion when he doesn't have the WBC belt?

WBC screwed up big time with making Loma Franchise champion. I understand the Canelo thing since the WBC did it to appease both Canelo and Al Haymon.

On a side note. Has anyone even seen the WBC Franchise title?

 

I have been asking the same question all this time. I know WBC is full of crooks, but the situation of Loma elevation to the 'franchise champion' is rather different from Canelo though both are in fact are a polite way to strip their titles without hurting their reputation or relationship with the organization. Loma is elevated to the 'franchise champion' only one-and-a half month after he defeated Campbell. This is totally opposite to how they treat Canelo as he was being allowed to fight Jacobs in unification bout. The previous lightweight titleholder, Mikey Garcia, even had no mandatory fight for almost two years after he got it from Zlaticanin.

Same like how WBC tried to appease Haymon, the elevation of Loma to franchise status is very likely WBC's way to appease Hearn who signed Haney in idea that he could gain control of WBC 135 lbs belt as two top rankers fighting for it. Loma spoiled his plan by proposing to fight for the vacant belt and got accepted by WBC.

Shame that WBC 'antics' prevent undisputed lineal champion to be decided by the historical fight this week.

 

• Tied for fewest number of fights to win a world title
• Holds the record for fewest number of fights to become a 3 weight world champion
• Holding all 4 major belts at LW in less than 20 pro fights.

No one would be able to deny Lomachenko's greatness after that.

 

Alot on the line for loma

 

Its a nice accomplishment, but when looking at things in proper context he's a 2 time gold medalist who became pro at 24.

Impressive, but I find it more impressive is a kid with not much of an amateur record becoming world champion at 17, 18, 19, 20, and even 21 years old.

How many amateur fights did he have? How many semi pro fights did he have?

 

You cannot lump in Am and Pro together for ranking purposes.

 

This is the most sensible post I've seen on the subject in a forum like this.

Being undisputed is near impossible these days. Being the best isn't enough, and it's not fair to hold it against fighters that are unable to unify like fighters of the past were.

 

Bottom line... Loma is the real WBC World Champion, Haney is just a WBC LW beltholder, regardless of quagmire the WBC created.