Remember when the late WBC president Jose Sulaiman clearly stated the org was against unification, and wanted unified champions who held a WBC belt to vacate the other organisation's belt? That was merely 1½ years ago. Since his son Mauricio Sulaiman took over after his father bit the big one a lot has changed. The WBA, IBF and WBC have had a couple of meetings since, fighters with other belts have been positioned in mandatory positions and now Sulaiman states that unifications are needed "for the good of the sport". This content is protected I don't know 'bout you guys, but I like Mauricio a lot more as I did his father, who only did a lot to destroy the sport.
Unification is always great for the sport it gets us closer to an undisputed champion ! It's all about the big 3 !
I wouldnt put much trust in it, you can bet Sulaiman jr has something to gain by doing so Oddly enough i only know of Gennady Golovkin getting this honor who is HBO's star fighter right now
well i suppose he has the unfortunete problem of having so many ***** champions afriaf to fight the best eg cotto,adonis so he had to do something
just imagine if the federations unified (for the good of the sport) wouldn't that be something what good is a unified champion if the federations break them up soon after because two of them throw a hissy fit when the champ chooses to defend against the 'wrong man'?
This is true they all need to be on the same page ..We don't need to be subjected to fluffy title defenses
Nope. They're also did it for the Kovalev/Pascal winner (Stevenson must fight him after the Mohammedi defence), the current HW situation and stated to do the same for LSC, Yamanaka and even FLoydypants.
That's good to hear. The WBC's stance never made any sense (for us fans) and its good to hear they might become more open minded.
