Vitali becomes WBC champion emeritus, WBC Heavyweight title now vacant!

"The winner of this Saturday’s junior-welterweight unification bout between Amir Khan and Danny Garcia

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, according to World Boxing Council President José Sulaimán.

Khan-Garcia will be for the WBC and WBA belts, though the unification won’t last for long.

That’s because the World Boxing Council hasn’t recently allowed for its world title to remain unified with other sanctioning body belts, though.

Just last month, 105-pound titleholder Kazuto Ioka defeated Akira Yaegashi, adding Yaegashi’s WBA title to his own WBC belt. Ioka and Yaegashi had been told beforehand that the winner would need to relinquish one of the titles. Ioka opted to keep the WBA belt and ditch the WBC.

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The aforementioned bouts came with the WBC’s blessing in advance. The news of another belt other than their own being at stake for this weekend’s HBO headliner in Las Vegas was, well, news to the WBC’s leadership.

“It is a real surprise to know … that the WBA title is involved,” Sulaimán told BScene.com via email Thursday night. “The WBC will accept only the WBC. Whoever doesn’t want it, the title is vacant.”

 

the WBC is full of SHI.T
they allowed Trouts WBA belt to be unified with Canelos WBC belt in APRIL 2013....by WBC "rules" the winner is supposed to vacate 1 belt with 15 days.....ummm NO that didnt happen because sin Sept 2013 floyd vs alvarez was for the WBA and WBC titles
so any talk of the WBC not allowing Wlad to fight for the title is bulls.hit according to recent history
anyone care to explain this "before the rule stuff" now?

 

Vitali has already beaten many of the best here. I think Solis if given the chance is the best of the lot.

 

he looked fat and sloppy against leif larsen ffs. he is no better or no worse than any of the other mediocre contenders

 

How do you keep a title without fighting for over a year? Is it expensive?

 

guillermo jones kept his WBA cruiserweight title for 2 years without a fight

 

And now got it back after failing a post fight drugtest... :!:

 

It must be if a guy is holding 3 belts so because they have let to enforce their rule on anybody.

 

yeah and the best part of the story is "that its not a story!"
how does this crap not get called out by boxing websites or magazines? amazing

 

nope. wrong again.
apparently they just do what they want.....and their rules only apply to who they want them to

"The winner of this Saturday’s junior-welterweight unification bout between Amir Khan and Danny Garcia will have to vacate one of his two world titles, according to World Boxing Council President José Sulaimán.

Khan-Garcia will be for the WBC and WBA belts, though the unification won’t last for long.

That’s because the World Boxing Council hasn’t recently allowed for its world title to remain unified with other sanctioning body belts, though.

Just last month, 105-pound titleholder Kazuto Ioka defeated Akira Yaegashi, adding Yaegashi’s WBA title to his own WBC belt. Ioka and Yaegashi had been told beforehand that the winner would need to relinquish one of the titles. Ioka opted to keep the WBA belt and ditch the WBC.

And in another noteworthy instance three years ago, Timothy Bradley was told he’d have to pick between his WBC title and the WBO belt he’d just won from Kendall Holt. Bradley held onto the WBO belt and vacated the WBC.

The aforementioned bouts came with the WBC’s blessing in advance. The news of another belt other than their own being at stake for this weekend’s HBO headliner in Las Vegas was, well, news to the WBC’s leadership.

“It is a real surprise to know … that the WBA title is involved,” Sulaimán told BScene.com via email Thursday night. “The WBC will accept only the WBC. Whoever doesn’t want it, the title is vacant.”

 

Man will you stop talking about Wilder all the time??? We all know why you hate him so much.

 

Because no one wants to see that grab and hold ****.

 

The current WBC HW ranking list is full of crap. No more than 5 of these names are of credible contenders. And who the f*#k is that guy at the #3 spot?

 

Excuse my Eastern European ignorance but isn`t Deontay a girls name? Sounds like that to me?

 

It was crystal clear back in July that Vitali was not fighting again, yet it took corrupt WBC another 5 months to do the obvious.

Stiverne gets no respect!! I hope, at least, he is given the chance to make his pick from the top 5-10 ranked for the title fight.

If I could have my pick, it would be Stiverne vs Wilder for the belt and Arreola vs Fury or Perez for the mandatory position. Winners meet up next and all of it on the incoming next semester. The one emerging from it meets up with Wlad on the second semester of 2014.