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Enlightened-One wrote: ↑10 Jul 2019, 11:15 "WBA increasing junior middleweight confusion?"

As reported by Boxingtalk on Monday, the WBA annunced its plan for the 154-pound division. [Julian Williams is listed as the super champion, and Brian Castan was stripped of the regular title].

Michel Soro, who is #1 in the rankings, will face Magomed Kurvanov on July 20th for the regular title, while #2 Erislandy Lara will step into the ring on August 31st against Ramon Alvarez for the interim belt. But there is a twist: According to the WBA, "the winners of both fights will face each other for the super title" but that title already belongs to Williams.

Thoughts?

Enlightened-One wrote: ↑10 Jul 2019, 11:57 I don't really understand this situation.

I can't find any mention of Julian Williams being stripped or having vacated his WBA “Super” 154lbs world championship. In fact, the WBA gave him an “Honourable Mention” during the month of May.

So assuming the total absence of information means that Julian Williams’ world title reign is unaffected by the WBA’s mini-tournament, with the winners of the bouts for the “regular” and “interim” belts, facing each other for the “super” title, then the WBA will either have two “super” champions or they’ll create a new strap especially for J-Rock (much akin to the WBC’s newly-created “franchise” title).

Does this mean that when the “regular” and “interim” belts are eventually vacated, due to the winner of the Soro-Kurvanov-Lara-Alvarez mini-tournament becoming the “super” champion, will this inevitably lead to the WBA to mandating bouts for these vacant titles? Four world champions!

WTF!

Jeff_lacy_ko wrote: ↑10 Jul 2019, 12:22 The ONLY thing these orgs are good for is enforcement of madatories which gives high risk/low reward fighters title shots. The WBC literally just invented something to prevent that. So they are all useless and we should try to never mention them agan.