By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Organization stated on Thursday that #2 WBO Demetrius Andrade will likely be the next mandatory challenger to WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders when the time comes.
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Crawford made mandatory challenger to Jeff Horn
By Chris Williams: As of Thursday, Terence Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs) has vacated his WBO light welterweight title, and he’s now been made the mandatory challenger to WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (17-0-1, 11 KOs).
Saunders happy Lemieux fight ordered
By Jim Dower: Billy Joe Saunders (25-0, 12 KOs) says he’s “happy” at hearing the World Boxing Organization has ordered him to defend his WBO middleweight title against mandatory challenger David Lemieux (38-3, 33 KOs) for his next fight.
WBO to re-score Jeff Horn’s win over Pacquiao
By Jeff Aranow: Due to the controversy surrounding Australian Jeff Horn’s controversial 12 round unanimous decision win over Manny Pacquiao on July 2, the World Boxing Organization will be re-scoring the fight. However, even if the WBO decides that the 3 judges that scored the fight were in error in giving the win to the 29-year-old Horn, it won’t lead to him losing the WBO welterweight title he won off of Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 KOs).
Ricky Burns – A Throwback
By Frainy: Boxers all over the world are heavily criticized for being inactive, for shying away from fights or for hand-picking opponents in order to preserve their reputation. Indeed, gone are the days of the top fighters or indeed any fighters fighting over 100 fights in their career.
The sport has become far too physically demanding for this to be possible as well as TV deals and money grabbing promoters heavily influencing the career choices made by those in the upper echelons of the sport.
Ricky Burns receives bad news, must fight mandatory challenger next
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KO’s) must be feeling pretty good right about now after having blown out his #2 WBO challenger Kevin Mitchell by an easy 4th round TKO last Saturday night. There’s already been talk of Burns fighting 35-year-old ring rusty former WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison (27-2-2, 15 KO’s) next in what would have to be considered a nice little title milking fighting for Burns. Harrison, by the way, is a fellow Scot like Burns, and the fight would probably make good money for Burns.
Unfortunately, I have some bad news for Burns and his loyal fans. The WBO president Francisco Valcarcel is saying that Burns has to fight his mandatory challenger now and that just happens to be Adrien Broner.
Lamon Brewster announces retirement from boxing – News
By Jim Dower: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster (35-6, 30 KO’s) has reportedly announced his retirement from boxing today after 14 years as a professional fighter. Brewster, 37, is one of the few fighters that hold wins over Wladimir Klitschko. In a press release sent out today, Brewster said that he had couldn’t see out of his left eye and had four unsuccessful surgeries to try and fix the problem. He lost sight out of the eye in his last fight against Robert Helenius a year ago.
Why I think Boxing weight classes should be cut from 17 to 10
By Gari Jones: Following on from a previous article why there should only be one true champion (http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/11/wba-wbc-wbo-and-ibf-why-there-should-be-only-one-true-champion/ ) I believe the number of weight classes should be cut down from 17 to about 10 (I made a revised table down below).