New WBF Heavyweight tournament

[Gnome]

16 fighters will fight over four consecutive months in Jamaica starting on 28th November. Fighters already signed are:

Alonzo Butler, 29-3-1
Raphael Zumbano Love, 35-8-1
Jason Estrada, 20-5
Mike Marrone, 21-4
Shawn Cox, 17- 5
Greg Brady, 5-1
Frans Botha, 48-11-3
Mike Sheppard, 21-17-1

No, it is not a world-class field and no one has terribly missed having a WBF champion - but I will be watching it. There should be some great scraps! Thoughts?

Still eight fighters to be named - who else might get the call-up?

[cold187]

I'll be keeping eye on it. Winner could possibly get a shot at wlad - joke

Winner can have a shot at a top 10 guy

[ReggieDiggs]

I hope Greg Brady's nickname is Brady "Bunch".

[ReggieDiggs]

Winner can have a shot at a top 10 guy

Winner can battle the reality of obscurity.

[SenorPipino]

Wasn't the WBF the pseudo-organization originally founded by Pat O'Grady back in the 70s?
Invented it so he could gift son Sean with a "champeenship."

Believe relative Monte Masters snagged the heavyweight title but somehow it never led to a much-anticipated unification bout with Holmes.
Is Masters still available to reclaim his old title?

[Bard of Boxrec]

Depressing

[Freedom2013]

This should be fun to watch.

[tiny_acres]

Wasn't the WBF the pseudo-organization originally founded by Pat O'Grady back in the 70s?
Invented it so he could gift son Sean with a "champeenship."

Believe relative Monte Masters snagged the heavyweight title but somehow it never led to a much-anticipated unification bout with Holmes.
Is Masters still available to reclaim his old title?

That was the waa
The world athletic association founded in Oklahoma.

[SteveO]

Wasn't the WBF the pseudo-organization originally founded by Pat O'Grady back in the 70s?
Invented it so he could gift son Sean with a "champeenship."

Believe relative Monte Masters snagged the heavyweight title but somehow it never led to a much-anticipated unification bout with Holmes.
Is Masters still available to reclaim his old title?

As Tiny_Acres correctly said - that was the WAA.
Sadly, Monte Masters died in 1996.

[SenorPipino]

Thanx for correcting my assumption that the WBF is the old WAA.

Also sad to learn (or be reminded) that Masters passed away nearly 20 years ago.
He could still whip the flock of tourney "contenders" in line for the WBF belt.

Masters was at the head of the line to fight a comebacking Joe Frazier in 1981 before Smokin' Joe decided on Jumbo Cummings instead.

[Bodyshot3]

.......Danny Williams is sitting home and not amused; probably viewed as too much of a threat by the WBF hierachy.

[Tony1244]

Anyone know how Monte Masters died?

[crusader]

At least they're fighting each other rather than opponents who will obviously overwhelm them. Generally I'd rather see these types of bouts than super prospect X quickly knocking out an opponent who was clearly going to be badly outclassed, or major title holder Y destroying an undeserving challenger.

[tiny_acres]

Anyone know how Monte Masters died?

I just read this in an old topic on Boxing News24
.Monte Masters died of AIDS.
I hate writing this without confirmation,but this is the only info I can find.

[GalenBadBoyBrown]

If any one has connections I would be interested I doing it 816-273-6746 galen brown

[Lackeos]

The WBF may be a joke, and these fighters may be a joke, but a tournament between 16 of these roughly evenly-matched fighters is halfway adequate. I approve. I don't see how it's going to generate an acceptable level of revenue in Jamaica, though, but that's not for me to worry about. Also, it would be interesting if the winner of this tournament made a title defense against a halfway legit opponent, even if it was just a top 50 fighter like Andrey Fedosov or Edmund Gerber. But that would risk the WBF actually making progress toward gaining a legitimate foothold.

[zojo]

Where's Briggs?

Hasn't he already beaten a few on that list?

[Cutman Scabbers]

16 fighters will fight over four consecutive months in Jamaica starting on 28th November. Fighters already signed are:

Alonzo Butler, 29-3-1
Raphael Zumbano Love, 35-8-1
Jason Estrada, 20-5
Mike Marrone, 21-4
Shawn Cox, 17- 5
Greg Brady, 5-1
Frans Botha, 48-11-3
Mike Sheppard, 21-17-1

No, it is not a world-class field and no one has terribly missed having a WBF champion - but I will be watching it. There should be some great scraps! Thoughts?

Still eight fighters to be named - who else might get the call-up?

Is there any link to a site announcing this?

[Gnome]

I would love the White Buffalo to turn back the clock and win this. At the very least, I hope he gets through the first couple of rounds - he has lost six in a row now (against good competition, at least - they had a combined record of 135-2!) and would love for him to retire on a high note.

[Crease]

Looking at the that fighter list, god help us...

[The Great John L]

If any one has connections I would be interested I doing it 816-273-6746 galen brown

Galen, I hope you can get in on this, because you'd have a good shot in this tournament.

[tiny_acres]

Not a great lost but a competitive one.I look forward to this.

[GalenBadBoyBrown]

I am like butterbean king of 3 rounders lol just kidding but any info would be great I like excitement and this tournament seems to be very exciting

[chucktaylor]

They should to bring in Darnell 'ding-a-ling man' Wilson to add a little spice to this one.

Since it's in Jamaica, the ghost of Trevor Berbick could have a decent shot at this belt.

[dempseyfire]

Looks like Shannon Briggs just ran out of potential future opponents . . .