Manuel Charr Inks With EC Boxing: I Want Andy Ruiz, Then Tyson Fury

[Ruthless-RKO]

Manuel Charr Inks With EC Boxing

WBA "regular" heavyweight champion Mahmoud "Manuel" Charr (31-4) has joined forces with EC Boxing in Hamburg. Charr is looking forward to defend the title and is targeting Andy Ruiz Jr and then Tyson Fury.

Charr holds the regular version of the title while Anthony Joshua is "super" champion, Trevor Bryan is interim-champion and Robert Helenius is the WBA's "Gold" champion.

"I am sure that Erol, with his close ties to the United States, is the right partner by my side," said Charr. "I would like to box against Andy Ruiz and then target Tyson Fury."

Mahmoud has held his part of the title since 2017 even though he did lose it after a positive doping test in 2018. That case was however appealed, Charr won the case and he was reinstated as champion. He has however been inactive since beating Alexander Ustinov in November of 2017.

"Mahmoud was and is always part of the ECB family. We are currently restructuring our stable, aligning ourselves strategically. Following Victor Faust's commitment, we now have Mahmoud, a reigning heavyweight world champion. We are very well positioned and I am is convinced that he will soon have big fights," said promoter Erol Ceylan.

There's been a lot of plans made for a title defence though and earlier this year Don King Productions won purse bids for Charr to defend the title against Trevor Bryan in May - which never came around due to the coronavirus pandemic. Charr-Bryan was before that also scheduled for November 2 of 2019, in Kinshasa, but for some reasons the plans fell through.

Before that there was a fight against Fres Oquendo lingering for a long time.

The 36-year old Charr turned pro with Sauerland Event back in 2005 and joined Spotlight Boxing in 2008 and challenged Vitali Klitschko for the WBC title in 2015 but was TKO'd in four rounds. A one punch knockout loss to current WBO cruiserweight king Mairis Briedis in 2017 seemed to spell the end for Charr as a contender but after beating Andrei Mazanik and Sefer Seferi he was back in the picture and won the WBA 'regular' title by beating Alexander Ustinov.

When, where and against who Charr will defend his part of the title will be announced at a later date, but there will certainly not be a lack of challengers.

[chinarich]

If Ruiz can be bothered to train this presents a winnable route back to a title of sorts...

[joshj909]

Better defend his regular paper weight against Trevor Bryan and Fres first before he demands big fights. Taken 3 years to fail to arrange those fights while testing positive along the way.

Hopefully the WBA just accept defeat with this and strips him and Bryan and they will have to go back to being unranked and inactive.

[tiny_acres]

Better defend his regular paperweight against Trevor Bryan and Fres first before he demands big fights. Taken 3 years to fail to arrange those fights while testing positive along the way.

Hopefully the WBA just accept defeat with this and strips him and Bryan and they will have to go back to being unranked and inactive.

The whole 3 champions per division I. 1 weight class is a joke. But what is even funnier is that they get the belt and sit on it for 2 or 3 years.
It is insane

[joshj909]

Better defend his regular paperweight against Trevor Bryan and Fres first before he demands big fights. Taken 3 years to fail to arrange those fights while testing positive along the way.

Hopefully the WBA just accept defeat with this and strips him and Bryan and they will have to go back to being unranked and inactive.

The whole 3 champions per division I. 1 weight class is a joke. But what is even funnier is that they get the belt and sit on it for 2 or 3 years.
It is insane

I can only assume he's waiting for a unification to be called with AJ but that's never going to happen like this

[margaret thatcher]

Helenius vs Charr

[MotherCoconuts]

Man Charr vs Ruiz is a big knockout waiting to happen. Andy in any shape or form will dismantle this guy.

[gilgamesh]

Fine. Give him Ruiz.

He'll lose, and that'll be the end of that.

[gilgamesh]

Man Charr vs Ruiz is a big knockout waiting to happen. Andy in any shape or form will dismantle this guy.

Yep I don't figure he even needs to train for Charr. So both he and Ruiz will be getting what they want with this. He gets the fight he wants. Ruiz gets to f*ck off and eat for months like he loves.

It's a win-win

[margaret thatcher]

Nah, following Andy's track record he'd plod to an uninspiring decision

[gilgamesh]

Nah, following Andy's track record he'd plod to an uninspiring decision

Exactly. Which is what he likes to do.

[Cyclops]

Charr and his belt are completely irrelevant

[polecateddy]

I'd strongly suspect Ruiz hasn't been near a gym since Joshua 2, and is probably weighing 400 pounds.

[gilgamesh]

I'd strongly suspect Ruiz hasn't been near a gym since Joshua 2, and is probably weighing 400 pounds.

Even so he'd probably still beat Charr. If he was such a tub of sh*t he couldn't even beat Charr he may not ever win another fight at all.