Comments Thread For: Murat Gassiev, Abel Sanchez Discuss Camp, Wlodarczyk Clash

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IBF Cruiserweight World Champion Murat "Iron" Gassiev shared his thoughts from training camp in Big Bear, Calif., as fight week nears for his World Boxing Super Series quarter-final showdown Saturday, October 21 against Krzysztof Wlodarczyk from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J and on AUDIENCE Network. Gassiev first arrived to train in the U.S. in 2014 and has worked with the renowned Abel Sanchez, eventually capturing his title with a victory over Denis Lebedev in December 2016.
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[Mammoth]

8 years is not long. Why did Lebedev retain his title?

[kafkod]

8 years is not long. Why did Lebedev retain his title?

He had 2 titles, IBF and WBA. Gassiev was mando for the IBF, so Lebedev wouldn't have been able to enforce a rematch on him if Gassiev won..

But if Lebedev had staked his WBA title too, that would have been a voluntary defence, and the champ is entitled to a rematch if he loses a voluntary.

But because Gassiev was mando for the IBF, that meant Lebedev couldn't enforce a rematch if Gassiev won, but he would have been able to enforce a rematch if he's lost the WBA in a voluntary, but he couldn't have done that because Gassiev was mando for the IBF .. so ....

**** .. what it boiled down to is that Lebedev asked the WBA permission to fight Gassiev in a non-title fight, and the WBA agreed to let him do it, so he kept his WBA title even though he lost.

[ceylon mooney]

8 years is not long. Why did Lebedev retain his title?

he had two. only one of em was up for grabs.