- Benavidez made champion in recess. Anthony Dirrell v Eubank Jr was ordered, however, Eubank turned it down, presumably to fight DeGale in December. Vacant title will be contested between Dirrell & Avni Yildrim. - Gennady Golovkin ordered to fight Jermall Charlo for the Interim title. - Shawn Porter ordered to rematch Thurman upon Thurman's return. -Jorge Linares ordered to fight Adrien Broner in a final eliminator for Jose Ramirez's title. Mohamed Mimoune (Eggington conqueror) v Viktor Postol will be an eliminator. - Luke Campbell officially made Mikey Garcia's mandatory. - Julian Williams ordered to face Erislandy Lara in a final eliminator for Jermell Charlo's title - Francisco Vargas v Eduardo Hernandez ordered to fight to become Miguel berchelt's mandatory. - Gary Russell Jr v Leo Santa Cruz also ordered. EDIT: - Rungvisai will be allowed one more voluntary defence AFTER the Diaz fight before Estrada is ordered as mandatory - Andrew Selby v Julio Cesar Martinez Aguilar has been ordered as a final eliminator to Cristofer Rosales
Seems fair for cocaine use. So they're basically handing the sloth another WBC belt. Nice comeback fight for Golovkin. Whenever that is. Porter might be inactive for quite some time this way.
i'm not sure in this context, it's usually for fighters who are injured to free up the belt and they can fight for it when they return from injury. But seeing as Benavidez doesn't appear to be going anywhere, unless he's taking some time out, i'm not sure either
It usually means that such champion will be allowed a chance to fight for the title vs. the regular champion when the champion in recess is ready (after an injury, etc.)
A good example would be Bellew was the WBC cruiserweight champion in recess so as soon as he went back to cruiserweight he was able to challenge Usyk.
