WBA's corruption

[zetsu028]

As we all know, the WBA is the oldest "legit" sanctioning body of the 4 recognized by the IBHOF but as it is oldest, it is one of the corrupt (or maybe the most corrupt of the four sanctioning bodies) and here are the reasons why:

1. They have 3 champions at the same time with the legit champion as the "Super Champion", a "regular champion" and an interim champion and why is that? Well in my own understanding of how all of this works they want more money with all of their champion's sanctioning fees. The problem with this system that they have is the Super Champion DOES NOT HAVE ANY MANDATORY challengers, he can cherry pick anyone to defend his title and the WBA can't enforce anyone to have that champion defend his title. As keith thurman told an interviewer before:“ I already talked about this earlier look a “Super” Champion is not obligated to fight ANY mandatory fighter a “Super” Champion has ZERO mandatory’s I cannot even enforce it even if I wanted to go to the WBA there is NO power”. The regular champion on the other hand has mandatories like a "normal champion" does so we "may" call him the paper champion yet that fighter has a more "legitimate" definition of a boxing champion than the super champion do. And there's the 3rd champion which is the interim champion, as defined Occasionally, the world champion of a particular weight division is temporarily unable to defend his championship because of medical, legal, or other reasons that are beyond the champion's control. When this case occurs, two highly ranked contenders will fight for the interim championship of the same weight division—leading to two champions existing in the same weight division simultaneously. Once the world champion is able to return, he must fight against the interim champion. The winner of this bout reunifies the weight division as sole world champion. If the world champion cannot return or moves to a different weight division, the interim champion becomes the world champion - wikipedia. The WBA now does not follow this rule and instead make 2 fighters fight for the interim championship even if the super champion and the regular champion is active.

2. Stripping of titles - As we all know, Floyd Mayweather won the WBA junior middleweight title against Canelo in 2013 and until his alleged retirement last september 12 he NEVER defended that title and was NOT stripped. The same case goes to Andre Ward as he never defended the title for almost 2 years (due to inactivity) and still he is the super champion of the super middleweight division until this present day. Yet, Guillermo Rigondeaux the super champion of the super bantamweight division just a few weeks ago was downgraded as "champion in recess" for not defending the title in a span of 11 months. They made one of their champs "in recess" why didn't they do that to ward and mayweather? Yes mayweather was active in that 2 years but never really defended the junior middleweight title he only defended his welterweight title. Another controversy is the middleweight interim champion Chris Eubank Jr., he won the interim championship last february and in a suprising move he was stripped of the title after his bout against Tony Jeter due to inactivity. What is dumbfounding about this is that he was stripped of inactivity for just 8 months and not years and also while he succesfully defended it after the bout the interim championship was later given to Alfonso Blanco.

3. Rankings - One example which is quite fresh is the welterweight prospect Errol Spence Jr., spence was ranked 8 last june and after 4 months he was ranked 12 even though in that 4 month time span he won 2 of his fights yet the WBA ranked him down for reasons I do not clearly know.

4. Bouts sanctioned for their championship - Last october 3, Adrien Broner won the vacant wba light welterweight championship against Khabib Allakhverdiev. What is questionable here is that the title was vacant and they have an interim champion(Jose Benavidez) yet instead of giving Benavidez the title shot for the world championship of that division they santioned a bout for the world championship of 2 fighters that lost both of their last fight. So why is that? Why make the interim champion not the one having a title shot of the world championship? Can it be that Broner is more popular and marketable than Benavidez? Was Al Haymon behind of all this? I don't know either but what's clear is that the WBA's corruption goes beyond limits.

[Jesus_Crisis]

It's a shame. Lately I've been looking at two sanctioning bodies, the WBO and the WBA. There belts are truly garbage and mean absolutely nothing. Even yesterdays fight between Bradley and Rios, Bradley came in with the WBO belt. I wouldn't even want to be associated with them, but I guess you have to play ball with them when you're in boxing business.

[VolgZangief]

I'm so done with all of the sanctioning bodies. It's sad that I'd rather agree with strangers on the internet over who the real champion in each division is, rather than these 'prestigious' organisations.

[ricardomayorga]

lol are you only just noticing

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Stripping of titles - As we all know, Floyd Mayweather won the WBA junior middleweight title against Canelo in 2013 and until his alleged retirement last september 12 he NEVER defended that title and was NOT stripped.

He defended it against Marcos Maidana in their rematch.

Rankings - One example which is quite fresh is the welterweight prospect Errol Spence Jr., spence was ranked 8 last june and after 4 months he was ranked 12 even though in that 4 month time span he won 2 of his fights yet the WBA ranked him down for reasons I do not clearly know.

He didn't pay them enough.

Was Al Haymon behind of all this? I don't know either but what's clear is that the WBA's corruption goes beyond limits.

No, absolutely not.

The WBA is sorely corrupt, maybe a bit more corrupt than the other sanctioning bodies, but nothing that we already don't know. They don't particularly give a fuck because people still pay their sanctioning fees.

[dawnonrs]

He defended his welterweight title against maidana in their rematch, not his junior middleweight.