Zach Parker Relinquishes British Super-Middleweight Title

[Ruthless-RKO]

Super-middleweight champion champion Zach Parker (18-0) has relinquished his British belt.

Derbyshire's Parker is ranked in the top-10 with three of the four governing bodies - WBA #7, IBF #9, WBO #6 - so it's likely he has a world-ranking fight on the horizon instead.

Commonwealth super-middleweight champion Lerrone Richards (12-0) is likely to have his name thrown in the hat to fight for the now vaant Lonsdale title, as would current English champion Darryl Williams (17-1), who many thought did enough to beat Parker in their November 2018 British title fight. However, Parker edged him on a split decision to become champion.

The BBBofC released their championship circular today (June 13):

HEAVYWEIGHT (Vacant)

DANIEL DUBOIS v NATHAN GORMAN
The above contest to be promoted by allegedly, will take place on Saturday, 13th July 2019 at the O2 Arena, London.

CRUISERWEIGHT

LAWRENCE OKOLIE (Holder) v JACK MASSEY
The Stewards decided to approve a request from Promoter Eddie Hearn for the above voluntary defence contest, which will take place on Saturday, 6th July 2019 at Manchester Arena.

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT

JOSHUA BUATSI (Holder)

ANDRE STERLING v CRAIG RICHARDS
The above final eliminator contest to be promoted by Eddie Hearn, will take place on Friday, 21st June 2019 at York Hall, London.

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT (Vacant)
Following the relinquishment of the Championship by Zach Parker, the Stewards will consider this division at another time.

MIDDLEWEIGHT

LIAM WILLIAMS (Holder)

SUPER WELTERWEIGHT

TED CHEESEMAN v KIERON CONWAY
The Stewards decided to approve a request from Promoter Eddie Hearn for the above voluntary defence contest, which will take place on Friday, 21st June 2019 at York Hall, London.

WELTERWEIGHT

CHRIS JENKINS (Holder) v LIAM TAYLOR

The above mandatory defence contest to be promoted by allegedly, will take place in September at the Copper Box Arena, London.

SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT

ROBBIE DAVIES JNR. (Holder)

SAM O’MAISON v KAYAMBA PROSPERE
The above eliminator contest to be promoted by Joshua Goodwin, will take place Saturday, 7th September 2019 at York Hall, London.

This contest is also for Sam O’Maison’s English Super Lightweight Championship.

LIGHTWEIGHT

JOE CORDINA (Holder)

GAVIN GWYNNE v JAMES TENNYSON
The Stewards decided to put the above final eliminator contest to purse bids to be submitted in accordance with the Terms and Conditions to the Board’s Head Office by 12:00noon on Wednesday, 10th July 2019, the contest to take place by the end of October 2019.


SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT

SAM BOWEN (Holder) v ANTHONY CACACE
The above contest to be promoted by allegedly, will take place on Saturday, 3rd August 2019 at the Marquee, Belfast.

FEATHERWEIGHT

RYAN WALSH (Holder) v LEWIS PAULIN
The above voluntary defence contest to be promoted by Lee Eaton, will take place on Friday, 28th June 2019 at York Hall, London.

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT

BRAD FOSTER (Holder)

BANTAMWEIGHT

UKASHIR FAROOQ (Holder)

SUPER FLYWEIGHT (Vacant)

SUNNY EDWARDS v TOMMY FRANK
Tommy Frank withdrew from the above Championship.

FLYWEIGHT

ANDREW SELBY (Holder) v JAY HARRIS
Following the opening of purse bids, the above contest to be promoted by allegedly, will take place on a date and at a venue as yet to be advised.

[Black Sam Bellamy]

Why vacate ? Pointless.

[keirw]

Williams deserved another shot, people will say Parker ducked the rematch.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Why vacate ? Pointless.

He's ranked WBA #7, IBF #9, WBO #6

He probably thinks BJS, Ryder, Cal Smith may fight him as a voluntary?

[KiwiRider]

Williams deserved another shot, people will say Parker ducked the rematch.

I really wanted to see a rematch.
It was a close one, and could see a rematch going either way.
Don't know about any ducking, but maybe Parker is being protected?
I definitely think both of them did learn from their fight and it would serve them well to do it again.

[keirw]

I really wanted to see a rematch.
It was a close one, and could see a rematch going either way.
Don't know about any ducking, but maybe Parker is being protected?
I definitely think both of them did learn from their fight and it would serve them well to do it again.

My money would be on Parker in a rematch, but he was clearly injured in the fight and got a bit of help from the judges.

Having a decent ranking is no reason to avoid the rematch. A victory over Williams won't exactly drop him out of the rankings will it?

I am curious as to who they are going to put him in with, though.I can't see Sauerland putting one of their better prospects in with Smith or sending him to America to fight Dirrell or Plant.

Maybe they expect Bjs or Canelo to vacate and we could see Ryder vs Parker for either the WBO or WBA (reg) in the near future.

[Gnome]

He's ranked WBA #7, IBF #9, WBO #6

He probably thinks BJS, Ryder, Cal Smith may fight him as a voluntary?

This might be a silly question but can you hold the British title as well as a world title?

[Ruthless-RKO]

This might be a silly question but can you hold the British title as well as a world title?

I’m sure you can. But when a boxer challenges for a world title, they tend to vacate the regional belt(s) before the fight.

Who’s gonna wanna defend the BrItish or Euro belt, against Brit/Euro level comp when you defend a world title and get higher purses and more exposure

[bripez]

This might be a silly question but can you hold the British title as well as a world title?

I believe that in order to challenge for a world title then you have to first vacate the British (so if you lose the world title fight then you are also no longer British champion).

[jonp]

You dont have to vacate to fight for the world title, and you can lose at for a title atteh same weight and remain british champ (ie ryan walsh losing for european but staying as british champ.)
Usualy if someone vacates its because they have a mandatory they can not skip by without being stripped so vacate as its easier.

[Ruthless-RKO]

You dont have to vacate to fight for the world title, and you can lose at for a title atteh same weight and remain british champ (ie ryan walsh losing for european but staying as british champ.)
Usualy if someone vacates its because they have a mandatory they can not skip by without being stripped so vacate as its easier.

BrItish and Euro is not world.

It’s like Ritson didn’t vacate his BrItish belt to challenge Patera for the Euro.

[Hartley1997]

Lerrone Richards vs Darryll Williams should be called

[bripez]

BrItish and Euro is not world.

It’s like Ritson didn’t vacate his BrItish belt to challenge Patera for the Euro.

I agree.

I don’t have a link or anything but I am pretty confident that in order to challenge for a World title then you firstly need to relinquish the British title.

[jonp]

Tom langford won the british
Then fought for the world interim title v kurtzidhe ( i know its interrim but all same rules apply)
Lost the fight then defended the british afterwards.
There is no rule sayin you have to relenquish the british to challenge for the world title anywhere.Most people do because of circumstances but as in the example above and iv no doubt there are many others there is no rule saying it has to be done.

[jonp]

Howard Winstone was british champion before his world title shots and defended it afterwards there were no requirements to give it up.

[jonp]

Henry cooper kept hold of the british title while challenging for the world title.

[jonp]

Hope that clears it up lads.

[jonp]

Interesting result I found while looking over records,
When Dennis Andries beat Tony Sibson for the world title Boxrec also has him as defending the british title. So you dont have to give it up even if you win the world title ,Never seen an example of this before but I suppose Dennis didnt like the idea of giving up anything without a fight.

[jonp]

Herol Graham won the british title before fighting Mike Mccallum then defended it against Rod douglas afterwards.

It also looks like Graham held onto the title while challenging Julian jackson and Kalambay for the euro before defending and losing to frank grant for the british

[Ruthless-RKO]

Aren’t these very old examples though?

Is there anyone more recent we can think of?

[keirw]

Some British champions vacate their title as they seem to think being ranked with one or two governing bodies makes them world class.

Also, when they lose they still think they are world class and expect their promoters to get them another shot rather than step back down to their actual level.

[Boxingcutsman]

JonP is right, there is nothing to say you have too vacate the British title to fight for a world title, if you was to win the world title then obviously the British then becomes vacant, again like jon said they usually vacate has they have had a mandatory they can’t swerve and don’t want to risk a possible bigger fight that’s in the pipeline.

Don’t hold me too it but more recently I’m pretty sure paul Smith may have been British champion when he challenged for world title unsuccessfully and he remained British champion until he vacated to make way for his brother Callum.

[jonp]

Aren’t these very old examples though?

Is there anyone more recent we can think of?

Tommy langford?

[Ruthless-RKO]

Tommy langford?

When he fought Anvil?

That was Interim anyway..

[jonp]

Its still under world title rules wether interim or not,So proves the point that there is no rule that challenging (or indeed bizarly in the dennis andries case) that a boxer has to vacate the british title challenge for a world title. Surely yr not still trying to make a case that a boxer has to vacate the british to fight for the world??