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The WBA just cant leave the cruiserweight division alone without creating paper titles that confuse the division. The WBA will sanction Belgium's Ryad Merhy (28-1) against Hungary's Imre Szello (24-0) for its vacant interim championship this Saturday in Charleroi, Belgium.

Merhy already failed once against the previous interim champion, Arsen Goulamirian.

With only one soft win since beating Merhy followed by a year of inactivity, Goulamirian somehow finds himself listed as the WBA super champion.

Beibut Shumenov, inactive for 15 months, is listed as the regular champion.

The WBA offers no explanation why it hasn't ordered a Goulamirian-Shumenov fight or Merhy vs. either guy before creating this third-tier interim title.

http://www.boxingtalk.com/WBA-continues ... ght-titles

The WBA makes less and less sense for every year.

I wonder how many years WBA has to be Boxing's running joke before everyone just stops laughing or paying attention

Belgium sounds like a suitable location for a WBA 3rd best in the World title contest. Good for them

The WBA is making itself become a laughing stock:

• WBA Super Champion - Arsen Goulamirian
• WBA World Champion - Beibut Shumenov
• WBA Gold Champion - Alexey Egorov
• WBA World Interim Champion - The victor of the Ryad Merhy vs. Imre Szello bout

Future equivalent "world" titles to be launched by the WBA:

• WBA Global Champion
• WBA Planet Earth Champion
• WBA Terrestrial Sphere Champion
• WBA Biosphere Champion
• WBA Humankind Champion
• WBA Humanity Champion