Hello, I was wondering, if Enzo wins the fight on Saturday, I guess he keeps the WBO belt. If Haye wins I guess all the titles are vacated when he gives them up, or is stripped, or if he vacates them? Or, does Enzo keep the WBO title even if he loses (contract)? Stranger things have happened. Who has the most to lose, Haye may be ruined by this fight? He would have been stopped by two big punching, chinny WBO cruiserweight champs. Enzo (if he loses) may have to rebuild in the WBO, and by that time Herbie Hide will be up there. Enzo could always say he lost to the best and Haye will move up. What happens to the winner and loser? :? Will Haye go for a rematch, move up if he loses? Will Macca move up, or what other 200lb fights will be out there for him? :thumbsup
i think that in the past haye has said he has no interest in the WBO title, so it wouldn't suprise me if macca kept the strap even if he loses. i can't see haye staying at CW win or lose. lets face it, if the fight is close and haye loses by dodgy decision, FW is hardly likely to be screaming for a rematch. if the tables are turned though... macca won't move up to HW. he makes the weight easily and can use his size advantage to good effect in this division. warren is banking on him being his new longterm champion after Joe retires.
If Enzo wins he will initially keep all three titles but eventually end up with just the WBO. If Haye wins he will either vacate all three and move to heavy or vacate the WBO and fight Cunningham for the IBF. Either way I expect it will be Enzo fighting for the vacant WBO title straight away.
agree on both points as far as macca goes. if enzo wins, he'll end up ditching the wbc the first time they put forward a challenging "risky" mandatory. the wba will be the next to go, but enzo and frank won't care, cos macca will be the linear and ring champion
I doubt he will go for Cunningham. The fight makes no sense and Haye cannot keep shedding all that weight. Plus Cuningham as the poor relation in the CW division.
Once haye unfies the WBO with his WBC/WBA titles he will be vacating them straight away. Cunningham isnt worth struggling for. Depending on how Enzo loses depends on the time he takes out to fight for the WBO title again, if he fights a champion for it or fights for a vant title is yet to be seen, but him fighting again for the WBO championship is pretty much a dead cert.
I think if Haye wins Enzo will be straight in for the WBO, whilst if Enzo wins, he will have three belts plus the ring magazine belt, the WBC will be gone almost immediately, whilst the WBA won't last much longer. But who will care really, Enzo will still have the Ring belt. (Even though the WBO is shite)
Win or lose Haye moves up to heavyweight. If Haye wins he has a great claim for a big push at heavyweight plus he can claim to be Britains number one big guy. If Haye loses he can just make the excuse that the weight beat him and he will be better off as an heavy. Haye is in a win win situation and vacates the belts at Cruiser. Enzo will prob get to keep the belts if he wins and looking at the other top cruisers he would have nothing to fear. The WBA usualy create a new champ and keep the unifed guy as super champ. If Enzo loses and depending on the style I seriously expect him to fight for the WBO title very soon, maybe after one fight, if his title reign is anything to go by he could fight a "Bobby Gunn" first fight back and make it for the vacated belts.
I would imagine Enzo would be ranked by the WBO in the top 2 so would get a shot straight away after a warm up, after he looses.
That is how I see it. I'll have to check the rest of the WBO top 15 to see who possible opponents may be but that does not really matter.
