WBC may award SOTO the INTERIM title

I don't know how I feel about this. I mean, Soto was clearly going to win the fight anyway... but the official still ruled it a DQ regardless if it was a horrible call, I don't think the WBC should declare winners.

I say keep the belt vacant, and order an immediate rematch. If Lorenzo is too injured to fight for the vacant belt right away then let Soto fight the next ranked opponent for the belt and Lorenzo can get a rematch as soon as he's healthy.

 

If the fight had been handled correctly he would have been awarded the belt. I am impressed that the WBC is actually going to do the right thing.

 

Objectively?

The belt belongs to Lorenzo. If the WBC disagrees with the ruling, order Lorenzo to defend against (a very angry) Soto in his first defense within a certain amount of time or he'll be stripped. I don't usually agree with stripping for not fighting mandatories, but this is clearly a controversial situation that needs to be rectified. But to not recognize the decision because they don't like it? Pandora's Box anyone? And now....not only will they not recognize it, but simply award a fighter a belt who didn't win the fight in the ring OR out of it?

At MOST, the belt should remain vacant.

 

On a sidenote Cortez deserves to be humiliated. Any possible way they can do that seems appropriate. Overturn, reverse, whatever, just take action. It's time to put some of these mini gods, aka overly complacent/overly reactive referees, on notice.

 

They just need to boot Cortez out of the sport permanently.

He is using his position to gain publicity, and feels that the events are all about him.

 

Sounds good to me. Nice.

 

I guess everyone is so into how cool boxing politics are that they aren't interested in JUSTICE. It is a blight on the entire sport and the result should be changed. I'd like to see what you would all think if you had trained your ass off just get told that you INTENTIONALLY fouled a guy who you destroyed with legal blows. Its a disgrace that discredits the integrity if the sport.

 

Justice is the correct fighter winning the fight and the belt. Regardless of the means. Correcting an injustce, provides justice. Its fairly simple.

 

Which will allow the sanctioning bodies to then make decisions "in the name of justice" anytime they like. Which will then "blight" the sport even further.

You may say "regardless of the means" now, but later on, you will be upset about further horrible decisions made because those means are available. They don't make case by case rules with large organizations. They will make it a rule that will be applicable over a broad spectrum.

So it's not about politics being "cool". Its about not allowing an already corrupt sanctioning body to further means of corrupting the sport.

 

I hear ya. But anyone who saw this knows what happened. Two words: Instant Replay.