Main event of possibly the last world championship program Don King will ever have a hand in (his first in nearly three years...and he turns 90 this summer). WBA heavyweight title at stake, 1st defense of Charr after three years and two months of having not defended it (or having even fought, period). What has become of the once lofty prize, held by titans such as Frazier, Ali, Foreman, Tyson, Holyfield, and Lewis? It has been a solid decade now since there was a respectable pair of heavyweights in a WBA title match - that's right, get ready to feel old as hell, because Povetkin vs. Chagaev was all the way back in 2011. Sasha vs. Huck was only nine years ago, but a jumped-up cruiser overachieving for one night doesn't a legit HW contender make. Thereafter we saw the Russian defend against the putrescent husk of Rahman and chinny, laughably outmatched Polish challenger Andrzej Wawrzyk. Then it was Chag's turn wearing it for a spell, but his reign proved even weaker and consisted of ancient Oquendo (barely squeaking by, no less), crappy Pianeta, then Aussie clubfighter Lucas Browne who acually wrested the belt from the fading hepatitis-ridden Uzbek. Charr then got to clear the low hurdle of Belarusian middling kickboxing contender turned worse pro boxing contender Alexander Ustinov to pick up the vacant bauble, in 2017. And now here we are. Bryan has been the WBA 'interim' champ since knocking out BJ Flores in August of 2018. Before that he beat nobody. College football player turned domestic gatekeeper Derric "Shaolin Fist" Rossy - by then an 11 year veteran with a 30-9 (14) record - was his best victory by far prior to Flores and remains his second best with a bullet. Let that sink in. Oh, and let's see if this actually does happen, this go-around. It wouldn't be the first time a DKP event was scrapped last minute due to some kind of shenanigans. But again, it'd probably be the last.
I was just reading about this, the whole event is shaky and bizarre. Apparently the supposed venue doesn't have any posters up or listings or anything, they may have switched to another venue in Miami.
Is Charr even in the country? Why does ANYONE sign to Don King these days? His fighters fight once every couple of years, even when there isn't a pandemic.
Man this insistence on non normal names throws me lol. Manuel Charr to me, always has been, always will be haha.
This isn't happening guys. Charr is still in Germany, not even remotely close taking a flight to the US. I also heard the whole event isn't happening. But who knows.
The WBA heavyweight title is not at stake. This is the (regular) belt which is not a legitimate heavyweight title. The WBA (super) is their premier title, i.e. their World Championship belt.
If I'd meant super, I'd have said super. Like it or not, devalued as it has become as essentially a worthless secondary belt on par with an intercontinental, THIS is the same belt that Ali, Frazier, Holyfield, Tyson and Lewis wore. The one Joshua has is their current premier title and far more prestigious and the only legitimate 'world championship' the WBA has on tap, but it technically isn't the same one from pre-2011. Its lineage only goes back 9½ years. WBA is a mess. Don't shoot the messenger.
