Comments Thread For: Usyk Asks IBF For An Exception To Maintain His Undisputed Crown

[57Blues]

Oh yea Oink Oink.............

[joe strong]

Usyk is undisputed even if no belts on the line. He is the man but i’m sure all the belts will be on the line in October. Then the stripping or vacating begins. If Fury wins the trilogy won’t have any belts on the line.

[James]

Most important thing is how Fury will feel if he fight's rematch and there is no IBF title on the line.... Imagine that...

[James]

Oh really? You musta forgot that Filip has been the IBF mandatory for years …..LMFAO

Yes, so if they decide to support Usyk reqest What is the point of having rules? They will mess with Hrgovic head. Imagine waiting for almost two years and then they tell you, sorry please wait again.

[JeBron Lamez]

Sorry my friend, at the moment in the heavyweight division NO ONE gives a shyte about aj, ddd, krapovici etc. The money isn't with them.
Fight in Cardiff??? NO ONE gives half a ****

You do know Cardiff has a 74,000 seat stadium which has previously hosted several sold-out world title fights including Calzaghe vs Kessler, right...?

The world is big & people care about things in all corners of it.

[Toffee]

The problem is their mandatory challengers are usually completely undeserving and only in the position because actually good fighters choose to pursue the WBA/WBC/WBO path instead.

If you're the IBF then how would you change that?

Personally, I'd make sure my mandatories get their shot. WBC Champions, for instance, can wait years. Ask Dillian Whyte whether he's glad that he put all his apples in the WBC basket.

[famicommander]

If you're the IBF then how would you change that?

Personally, I'd make sure my mandatories get their shot. WBC Champions, for instance, can wait years. Ask Dillian Whyte whether he's glad that he put all his apples in the WBC basket.

Dillian Whyte only has himself to blame. The WBC followed its own rules, Whyte just sabotaged himself over and over again.

1. Whyte was ordered to face Luis Ortiz in a WBC final eliminator. He refused. Ortiz got the title shot.

2. Whyte was ordered to face Kubrat Pulev in an IBF final eliminator. It went to purse bid, Whyte's team lost, and Whyte backed out of the fight because he didn't want to fight in Bulgaria. Pulev later challenged Joshua for the unified WBA, WBO, IBF, and fake ass IBO belts.

3. Dominic Breazeale, who had already earned a title shot by winning a WBC eliminator, offered of his own volition to risk his title shot in a fight with Dillian Whyte. Whyte refused. Breazeale got the title shot.

4. Whyte was offered a chance to challenge for the WBA, WBO, IBF, and IBO titles when Jarrell Miller popped for PEDs. Whyte refused. Andy Ruiz took the fight and knocked out Anthony Joshua.

5. Whyte was ordered to face Oscar Rivas in a final eliminator and he finally did. Despite changing gloves illegally after the glove selection meeting and getting dropped, Whyte got the win and finally officially became mandatory. Unfortunately for him, he also popped for PEDs and was stripped of his mandatory status.

6. Whyte was able to lawyer his way out of PED trouble and get reinstated, but then he got knocked out by a 500 year old Alexander Povetkin.

7. For some reason he was able to get his mandatory status reinstated when he knocked Povetkin out in the rematch, despite the loss and the PED failure.

8. Whyte finally got his mandatory shot and got knocked out again, because he was a bum the whole time.

So in reality, the WBC treated Dillian Whyte much better than he deserved. Usually you get kicked out of the rankings for refusing to fight an eliminator, but the WBC just kept offering them to Whyte until he found a fighter weak enough to beat. Then he cheated to beat that fighter, then he got KTFO by a fossil, then he still got his title shot anyway.

[techliam]

If you're the IBF then how would you change that?

Personally, I'd make sure my mandatories get their shot. WBC Champions, for instance, can wait years. Ask Dillian Whyte whether he's glad that he put all his apples in the WBC basket.

We need unified mandatories again

it was commonplace until the 90s for organisations to have a single unified mandatory, either for all three, or two out of three. It’s way too rare now

ABCs should agree for eliminators between themselves

[ShoulderRoll]

We need unified mandatories again

it was commonplace until the 90s for organisations to have a single unified mandatory, either for all three, or two out of three. It’s way too rare now

ABCs should agree for eliminators between themselves

We need just one belt. That would solve everything.

[Tonyu]

I applaud the IBF they should stick to their rules. Perhaps these promoters should just stop trying run the sport and and just promote and stop having endless rematch clauses holding other fighters careers up. Fury, Joshua etc fight once a year twice if they lucky then constant rematches. Perhaps if the other governing bodies did the same these constant rematch clauses will stop. One rule which should be introduced if you lose in a title fight you can't challenge again until you have 2 more wins. Hearn is the worst he puts rematch clauses in every Joshua fight title or no title because they really have such little faith in his ability. Maybe stripping the first undisputed HW in 25 years is the kick up the.... Is what the sport really needs to stop this.