"All members will be (a) able to recognize and willing to confront those in boxing abusing the sport and confusing the public," So.....Crawfish is recognised at LWW even though he never beat Garcia, while Alvarez is also recognized at MW even though he's never once made a sucessful fight at the weight vs any top contender. So....b/c Cotto beat Martinez, who lost to Murray who beat Sturm but was later banged out by GGG, and Yeller managed to pay Cotto enough for a fight, but Cotto dropped the title a week before, but the WBC abused their power, and allowed Yeller to fight for their title, which was already rightfully GGG<Murray<Martinez...... I dont get it. If yall are gonna claim to be SMART enough to confront the abusers and the confusers, but STILL offer up this UTTER ISH....... Your'e worse than the IBO.
My response was to Luf in regard to why TNBR had dropped Wlad from the rankings. I believe they have a rule that says you need to fight at least once in a 12 month period. In the case of Wlad, IMO, they should have waived the rule as he had a fight scheduled that would have qualified, and it wasn't his fault that Tyson had a bit of a meltdown and withdrew. At any rate, he has a fight scheduled shortly with Joshua and if he wins it, I'm sure they'll have him back at #1. Regarding GGG, IMO,the championship should be declared vacant on account of a lack of adequate defences over the period, and the #1 and #2 should fight to establish a new lineage. Coincidentally, GGG and Jacobs are 1 and 2.
This. When he fights JCC jnr on May 5, he will have one day left to till it will be a year since the Khan fight, and that was contested at 155. Moreover, the TNBR has no 'mandatories,' but if they did, in this case, it would probably be GGG. Canelo came by his 'championship' status by way of picking up the WBC belt from Cotto (again at 155). Since he conceded that belt rather than defend against his WBC mandatory, even though the two aren't the same thing, he was refusing to defend his 'champion' status and a case could have been made for a 'stripping' at that point. If they wait till May 7 to declare the championship vacant, the 1 v 2 fight will already have taken place seven weeks earlier. Will it still count ?
Canelo didn't acquire his champion status by winning the WBC belt.He did it by beating champion Cotto. TBR don't recognize those straps nor should they.
They've tried getting a statement off him but I think he keeps stringing everyone along keeping his options open.
I made that point in my post. What I was saying was that, even though the WBC belt and the TNBR championship were two different things, it was the same fight that garnered both for Canelo. And since he refused his mandatory and gave up the WBC belt rather than face the best in the division, and since TNBR do not have mandatories, some kind of case might be made for no longer recognizing him as champion at the weight. Otherwise, he could continue to defend forever while avoiding the best. On May 7, it will be a moot point. He will have gone a year without making a defence of the 160 lb belt.
