Someone will soon have the WBA regular title and proclaim to be a champion. I think they should target the WBF next.
Great to see. As much as people hate there styles both brothers have been a blessing to boxing and consummate pro's. Great accomplishment and a pleasure to see.
Fair enough, it hasn't, it's impressive. It's still two people holding the belts in a division though. I wonder if Vit will retire giving Wlad the chance to pick up the lot, I'm not sure how logistically possible that is though.
That's why I believe Wlad secures a spot in the Top 10 ATG's at Heavyweight if he can unify his belts with the WBC after Vitali retires.
Their dream has been fulfilled....................It is done.................... Good for them. THey finally got what they always were striving for. The hurdles in their way included, but not limited to: Wlad's losses, boxing politics, hard to deal with promoters, unwilling opponents, afraid opponents, not ready opponents, but the main hurdle to overcome was DON KING...........LOL
I'd be hilarious if they were to now go back through the division, and start collecting the *regular* titles too.................. A completist needs the entire set...............
I have to agree with this. As its incredibly significant achievement. No fighter other than Mike Tyson has beaten the champs of every sanctioning body. Let alone unified ALL the belts. If not top 10 at least just outside it.
The WBO back then had just been created in 1989 with Francisco Damiani as their inaugural champ. Firstly the WBO meant nothing. And secondly neither did Damiani despite being a top 10 ranked opponent.
So the corrupt WBA still haven't give Wlad the WBA belt, what a farce. No he just has the 'super' WBA belt, which looks like a bigger tacky looking Ring belt. The only positive I can see from this is that we might get to see a good match up now for the WBA 'World title' between Povetkin and Chagaev, which wouldn't be that bad. Does anybody actually know the rules of having the Super title? Does it mean you have to fight the regular champion at some stage, at least that would be somewhat tolerable.