When was the last time a regular champion was mandated to fight the Super champion?boxing_rob wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 05:33 I guess the bit I left out is that at first you always had to face the current WBA champ (holding either IBF, WBO or WBC already) for a new super belt to be created. The 'elevate to super champ' thing wasn't there, nor was there vacant super titles put on the line in fights that didn't involve the current champ.
Not that I'm complaining, Joshua Klitschko was a great fight between top guys, much more worthy of the belt than say Wilder VS Charr or Parker VS Charr would have been. I just think it's kinda interesting how every few years they find another rule to start ignoring and it gets a bit more ridiculous each time!
Returning to the original topic, I hope this works out for Dubois, it's a big gamble. Basically a year of shenanigans to try and get a mandatory shot at Usyk/Joshua/whoever. If he loses or is victim of bad judging, he's wasted a year of his career. Even if he wins, the WBA are notorious for making it up as they go along and he might not get the shot anyway. Of course whilst he's waiting he could always do the WBA a favour and knock off Charr and Oquendo
It can't have been Wlad/Povetkin.. was it?
The belt kinda became redundant after that IMO, Chagaev won it, the whole Lucas Browne fiasco, then Charr-Ustinov happened and then since Bryan beat BJ for the interim, then Dk got his hands on it all.
It's like a parallel universe.
