Manuel Charr will celebrate his 3-year title reign on 11/25/2020

You pay when you defend.

 

That makes more sense, though with no defenses or fees why the haven't stripped him is a mystery

 

Didn't realise he'd been champ for that long. Amazing.

I wish we'd seen more of Charr these past few years, but the shooting incident and the hip replacements really put him out of action. It's incredible he even made it back into the ring let along won a world title after the fact, and kind of hints at what he could have been capable of had he been given more chances earlier in his career. The Haye fight would have put him on the map, since in hindsight it's obvious who would have won that one. It's also pretty scandalous that Vitali never deigned to rematch him after moaning for years that Lennox ducked him then went and pulled exactly the same stunt on an even weaker stoppage (not that the doctor stoppage in the Lennox fight was weak to begin with, but it was straight up BS in the Charr one).