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Is Skelton VS Williams only for the commonwealth title?

The poster for it only has the Commonwealth title down.

http://www.allegedly.tv/fw4/picturega ... lliams.jpg

And Danny only shows off his commonwealth title and Skelton doesn't have his British one.

http://www.allegedly.tv/fw4/picturega ... liams1.jpg

Say if it isn't for the British title and Skelton loses does it become vacant?

It's because Williams is still banned by the bbbc from fighting for the British after pulling out last year, although I think Fank Wace was trying to get them to reverse their decision. Hypothetically, I think Skelton will still be the Brit champ if he loses this one. He is even scheduled to fight Gammer later in the year for the British title

Surely if the British title is not on the line he can't lose it? In a simple world of course

jomothepure wrote:It's because Williams is still banned by the bbbc from fighting for the British after pulling out last year, although I think Fank Wace was trying to get them to reverse their decision. Hypothetically, I think Skelton will still be the Brit champ if he loses this one. He is even scheduled to fight Gammer later in the year for the British title

He was tried in September so the bancould be over by fight time.

The ban finishes in March.

Well the British title has now appeared on the boxrec schedule as being on the line, so it looks like someone's pulled a few strings - hopefully a BB bot or someone can clarify.

The fight's in February tho, so that would still be within the banning period

steve689 wrote:Surely if the British title is not on the line he can't lose it? In a simple world of course

Wouldn't the title become vacant? I find this stuff confusing.

In the poster Skeltons head looks huge, much bigger than Williams's... Imagine Valuev against Skelton? I would love that matchup and would pay too see it.