WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING champion Tyson Fury has been stripped of one his world titles less than two weeks after winning it, BBC Sport reports.
Fury beat Wladimir Klitschko on points on Nov 28, taking the Ukrainian’s WBA, IBF, IBO and WBO belts.
The Briton was then obliged to fight the International Boxing Federation’s mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov, but Fury has instead chosen to face Klitschko in a rematch.
“It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt,” the BBC quoted IBF chairman Lindsey Tucker as saying.
Our challenger was Vyacheslav Glazkov, but instead Fury’s gone and signed a rematch clause with Wladimir Klitschko.
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Fury has been embroiled in controversy in recent days after he compared homosexuality to paedophilia, triggering public outrage and a police investigation.
Boxing is some joke
Just shows how messed up boxing is with all these different belts, can’t become popular again until there’s one central committee/belt. Too hard to follow
Its popularity is probably bigger than ever worldwide. And everyone who follows boxing knows who the actual champion is in each weight class, the belts are becoming redundant.
The fact that you can potentially have 5 (I think deotany wilder has a title) world champions is a joke, makes a bit of a mockery out of the sport
Isn’t it 7? In each weight category
4 – WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO
Nothing else is recognised as a major title but the Ring Magazine have titles for each weight class which is held in high regard too as they usually get the lineal champions spot on.
@Anthony
You forgot the IBO belt.The one Andy Lee has.
No, Andy has the WBO.
Apologies,my mistake.
Surely klitzkcho becomes mandatory as he had the belts for so long doesn’t say much that they disregard his longevity as the champion
It’s a stain on boxing that the mandatory challenger who deserves the chance is cast aside . Gennady golovkin was mandatory for cotto for 2 years and still never got the fight and canelo won’t either
Loses his belt, will his pants fall down now?.
braces.
The situation with the various world champions at each weight division is a disaster.
However, you could argue that it is a better situation than what exists with its main rival, MMA, where each organisation is a stand alone entity with no possibility for unification fights at all. Take this weekend as an example; Aldo and McGregor will fight to unify the UFC featherweight title, but neither can describe themselves then as world MMA champion. At least we always have the possibility of a unified boxing champion.