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Gentlemen:

Please be advised the parties have twenty (20) days upon receipt of this letter to negotiate and reach an agreement regarding the WBO Lightweight Elimination Contest between WBO Lightweight Participants Ryan Garcia and Emmanuel Tagoe. If an accord is not reached within the time frame set forth herein, a Purse Bid will be ordered pursuant with the WBO Regulations of World Championship Contests.

The minimum acceptable bid for the WBO Lightweight Division is $150,000.00 (One Hundred Fifty Thousand) dollars. Any of the parties involved may request a purse bid procedure at any time during the negotiation process.

The parties are hereby advised that this Committee reserves the right to issue all necessary rulings regarding sanction approval of this bout and/or determinations to maintain active the WBO Lightweight Division.

Yours truly,



Luis Batista Salas, Esq.

Cc: Francisco Valcárcel, Esq./President

So I guess there's no Luke Campbell fight. Garcia will take this fight easier fight. Sad

world ranked wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 12:38 So I guess there's no Luke Campbell fight. Garcia will take this fight easier fight. Sad

Well he's got options.

This is just a letter from WBO, offering him an eliminator for their belt..

So decision is his.. but like you said, might be easier to make this fight.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 12:43

world ranked wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 12:38 So I guess there's no Luke Campbell fight. Garcia will take this fight easier fight. Sad

Well he's got options.

This is just a letter from WBO, offering him an eliminator for their belt..

So decision is his.. but like you said, might be easier to make this fight.

WBC gave him that 48 hour deadline for Garcia to respond and we heard nothing now this comes up. Boxing politics for you.

I’ve read that Ryan Garcia has agreed to fight Luke Campbell.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 19:46 I’ve read that Ryan Garcia has agreed to fight Luke Campbell.

If this true for play to Garcia choosing the harder fight still have doubts though.

Even though he has campaigned with the WBC path, i defiantly think now it would be smart to go WBO. Tagoe is a muchhh easier fight than Campbell on paper, and if he wins he is in line for loma and all the belts(well not realy actually but close), witch he will either get to fight for in a massive fight or get some easy touch vacant WBO shot. witch if he wins, he can defend a few times, unify or, use WBOs sweet powers to become mandatory 140 witch is where he is going to have to go soon anyway..

I think the haney fight is always there, at 135, 140 or 147 in the future. and getting past luke Campbell is not an easy task..

DiBella: Tagoe vs. Ryan Garcia Would Be Highly Competitive, Exciting

Fighting out of the talent-laden region of Accra, Ghana, world-ranked lightweight contender Emmanuel "The Gameboy" Tagoe (31-1, 15 KOs), is poised to take part in a WBO elimination bout to move one step closer toward a world title opportunity. Tagoe is promoted by DiBella Entertainment and managed by Peter Kahn.

Although Lee Selby is rated #1 by the WBO, he is locked into an IBF lightweight elimination contest against George Kambosos, scheduled for October 3. Earlier this week, the WBO ordered an eliminator between the next two leading available contenders, Ryan Garcia, rated #2, and Tagoe, rated #3, to become the mandatory challenger to face champion Vasyl Lomachenko. DiBella Entertainment and Garcia's promoter, Golden Boy Promotions, have been in communication about the fight.

Tagoe has won 31 fights in a row since his lone defeat in his 2004 pro debut. Most recently, the heavy-handed Ghanaian knocked out Ishmael Aryeetey in the sixth round in Accra. He also holds victories against former world champions Moses Paulus and Mzonke Fana.

Coming from a boxing family, Tagoe's maternal uncle, Nana Yaw Konadu, is a former two-division and three-time world champion, having held the WBC super flyweight title and the WBA bantamweight title twice. His other uncle, the late Emmanuel Teiko Tagoe, was a renowned trainer in Ghana, having worked with Joshua and Emmanuel Clottey, Osumanu Akaba and Ossie Duran.

"I welcome the challenge to fight Ryan Garcia to earn my world title shot for the WBO lightweight championship against Lomachenko," said Tagoe. "I have been waiting my entire career for this opportunity and will make it count. I will be the next lightweight world champion and make Ghana proud."

"Gameboy Tagoe has earned the right to fight in a title elimination bout," said Lou DiBella, President of DiBella Entertainment. "We would love it to be against Ryan Garcia, one of the sport's hottest up-and-coming stars, in what we think would be a highly competitive and exciting fight. If this isn't possible, we're happy to move down the rankings for another elimination bout and are also willing to entertain any big fight offer against one of the stars of the division."

"Emmanuel Tagoe is a world class fighter deserving of the WBO eliminator for the mandatory position in the lightweight division," said Tagoe's manager Peter Kahn. "It's up to Ryan Garcia to accept the fight and have his promoter Golden Boy Promotions negotiate for the fight. If they decline, we're happy to move on to the next highest rated contender. Tagoe is one win away from a guaranteed shot at the world title."