The World Boxing Association Championships Committee is attentive to the news that has surfaced regarding the possible HBO televised fight between Jason Sosa, who is currently the "regular" super featherweight champion of the sanctioning body, and WBO world champion Vasyl Lomachenko.
However, no official communication has yet been received by the WBA.
If this match is goes through as planned in April, then WBA would act in accordance with the regulations and allow Jezreel Corrales, the 130-pound super champion of the sanctioning body, to make an optional defense.
Both WBA champions were notified in the middle of last year that they should carry out a confrontation between them to unify their titles and establish as single WBA world champion at 130-pounds.
The Committee of Championships granted to Sosa, in the month of August, special permission to face Gervanta Davis with the condition that his next fight will be staged with whoever holds the WBA's "super" championship.
However, the fight with Davis never happened and Sosa instead fought faced Stephen Smith and won that optional defense by unanimous decision last November. Corrales also took an optional defense, in December, and won a twelve round split decision over former champion Takashi Uchiyama.
Who should he fight?
1 BRYAN VASQUEZ
2 CAN XU INT
3 RAFAEL MENSAH
4 JAVIER FORTUNA
5 JESUS ANDRES CUELLAR
6 TAKASHI UCHIYAMA
7 JAIME ARBOLEDA
8 YAVUZ ERTUERK PABA
9 RICARDO NUÑEZ
10 CARLOS MORALES NABA
11 HARMONITO DELA TORRE
12 ROGER GUTIERREZ
13 BILLEL DIB
14 TAKASHI MIURA
15 RODOLFO PUENTE
Jezreel Corrales Will Be Allowed an Optional Defense
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Re: Jezreel Corrales Will Be Allowed an Optional Defense
No idea how the Chinese guy is ranked that highly (decent fighter but no more than a prospect at the moment) and Masayuki Ito is unranked...wtf...
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Re: Jezreel Corrales Will Be Allowed an Optional Defense
All WBA rankings are weird.Boxing Prospect wrote:No idea how the Chinese guy is ranked that highly (decent fighter but no more than a prospect at the moment) and Masayuki Ito is unranked...wtf...
They still have Guillermo Jones in top 10.
Re: Jezreel Corrales Will Be Allowed an Optional Defense
Sosa and then Corrales would be nice for Loma. Two top ten guys, each with different styles and strengths, and then no doubts about him being the legitimate WBA titlist should he come through both.
The WBA has a massive boner for their fellow Panamanian. They also let him keep his title when he hadn't fought in 2.5 years.They still have Guillermo Jones in top 10.