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Paul Butler is a 15 fight fighter who is ranked 46 in the world. He get's a I.B.F. Title shot before the Mandatory who is Ranked 13 in the world and flew to Japan to earn the title shot! BS....

SMH

It does seem a bit off. Butler was ranked 11 by the IBF, but is due to feature in the top 10 of the April rankings. How long do the IBF give to defend the belt on a mandatory basis? Is it 6 months? Maybe Hall, who won the title in December, has to defend the title by mid June to avoid being stripped like McDonnell. Caballero only fought 2 weeks ago. A date in June might not have given him enough time to prepare properly for the fight. Will be interesting to see what Caballero himself has to say.

I'm not trying to defend the fight, just trying to unravel the layers of boxing politics. Hopefully the winner of Hall Vs. Butler must face Caballero. I fancy Butler to prevail over Hall. Caballero Vs. Butler would be a great scrap.

My understanding is Caballero is ready for June 7th. He will be on the bunce boxing hour on Tuesday in the U.K. Let see what he says cause the other camps are side stepping.

Leftblowko - welcome to Boxrec. Six posts today across multiple threads - all of them complaining about Butler getting a shot at Hall before Randy Caballer. Before we go any further, are you Randy Caballer, or a member of his team ?

Black Sam Bellamy wrote:Leftblowko - welcome to Boxrec. Six posts today across multiple threads - all of them complaining about Butler getting a shot at Hall before Randy Caballer. Before we go any further, are you Randy Caballer, or a member of his team ?

Having been in touch with a number of Randy's team they are very classy folk.

Edit-That of course may not be for all of them, but the ones I've been in touch with have been very decent

Black Sam Bellamy wrote:Leftblowko - welcome to Boxrec. Six posts today across multiple threads - all of them complaining about Butler getting a shot at Hall before Randy Caballer. Before we go any further, are you Randy Caballer, or a member of his team ?

https://twitter.com/inthereddcorner
I'm guessing this is him, same complaint, using same language as well.

Apologies if I've missed the bus on this but has Butler vs Hall been agreed or something ?

JimJim2009 wrote:Apologies if I've missed the bus on this but has Butler vs Hall been agreed or something ?

Paul's announced it on twitter today, June 7th, Metroradio Arena in Newcastle.

expe wrote:

JimJim2009 wrote:Apologies if I've missed the bus on this but has Butler vs Hall been agreed or something ?

Paul's announced it on twitter today, June 7th, Metroradio Arena in Newcastle.

Cheers. Good match up. My first thought was the title will change hands, but Hall is going to put Butler under a lot of pressure from start to finish, it'll be interesting to see if he can cope.

Stuey hasnt signed yet tho

What are the IBFs rules around making a defence against the winner of an eliminator ? I am assuming Hall has to defend against Caballer within a six month period of Caballer winning his eliminator (April to October) ?

Hall has allegedly been sanctioned by the IBF to squeeze in Butler before his mandatory, so the winner should be facing Caballero around September.

I can see a lot of Northerners getting a shot!

Coco wrote:I can see a lot of Northerners getting a shot!

It's Brad Saunders and Josh Leather that are stopping Stu having to go on the road.

Erm because its a voluntary defence ?

Parson Cross wrote:Erm because its a voluntary defence ?

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