Hearn: Bellew, if He Beats Haye, Would Be in The Mix For Joshua - Boxing News
Hearn leading these fighters to an early grave
Hell the Brook GGG fight.degale already told me what I need to know about hearn.
#SmokeSquad Mexican Mafia is Oscar Valdez and Mikey Garcia (el chapo)
Briggs-Oquendo: Promoters Complain Over 1 Million Minimum
By Carlos Boogs
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, the World Boxing Association ordered a purse bid between former world champion Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs and veteran contender Fres Oquendo for the vacant "regular" heavyweight title of the WBA.
Both sides were ordered to negotiate on January 2nd and failed to reach a deal within 30 days. The purse bid will be held on Monday at the offices of the WBA in Panama City and will be directed by Aurelio Fiengo, who is a WBA board member.
The percentage of the split will be an even 50-50, because the belt is vacant. The winner will have the obligation to defend the title against Russia's Alexander Ustinov, who is ranked third under the WBA.
The big issue right now is the WBA's minimum bid of $1 million.
According to the WBA's official rules, a heavyweight title fight will always have a minimum bid of a million dollars.
Sources with knowledge of the situation have advised BoxingScene that several promoters are actually interested in bidding, but feel the minimum bid is extremely high.
There is a real possibility that nobody will show up to bid on this fight. If that happens, the purse bid will be canceled and a new purse bid will be ordered.
If nobody shows up to the second purse bid, the WBA will have take action - and both fighters could lose their spots.
WBA RULES
6. Failed Bid. If no qualified bid is received in response to the first purse bid request, or if the winning promoter or a boxer identified in the purse bid award fails to comply with these Rules, the Committee may request a second purse bid. In the case of a title defense, if no qualified bid is received in response to a second purse bid, the Chairman may vacate the title and the position of mandatory contender.
17. Multiple Failed Bids. In the case of a vacant title, if there are two failed purse bids, the affected boxers may lose the privilege that their position in the rankings gave them to compete for the title. The Chairman may summon immediately a third Purse Bid for the two boxers who were to participate in the deserted Purse Bids and also two other rated boxers, named by the Committee. Bids may be made for a title fight between any two of the four boxers, and the boxers named in the highest responsive bid shall fight for the title.
Both boxers are way beyond their best days and throwing down a million to secure the promotional rights is a tough sell for any promoter.
Briggs, 45, has a record of 60-6-1 with 53 knockouts. Oquendo, 43, has a record of 37-8, with 24 wins by knockout..
The WBA's "super" title at heavyweight will be up for grabs on April 29th, when Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko collide at Wembley in London. The winner of that contest has to make a mandatory defense against Luis Ortiz.
After the smoke settles, the overall winners of the WBA "regular" and "super" title brackets will have to fight each other to establish a single champion as the organization is working hard to consolidate all of their world titles in each weight class.
Does that make Valdez El Mayo?
If that's the ruthless assasin of the real Mexican Mafia, yes.Does that make Valdez El Mayo?
He's the partner of El Chapo, one of the top leaders of the Sinaloa CartelIf that's the ruthless assasin of the real Mexican Mafia, yes.
Valdez/Garcia not a firing squad you want to see
Zurdo over either
Oh yeah, I could've just looked in your sig, my bad
Leo Santa Cruz: My Father Said No Belfast, Says I'll Get Robbed
By Edward Chaykovsky
WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (33-1-1, 18 KOs) would love to face travel overseas to face Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) in Belfast - but he says that important decision is not fully up to him.
Last July at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Frampton captured the WBA belt with a twelve round majority decision over Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz got revenge last month in Las Vegas, when he reclaimed his title with a twelve round majority decision over Frampton at the MGM Grand.
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Frampton is demanding a trilogy fight, but he wants it take place in his hometown of Belfast. He feels it's only fair, since he traveled to the United States to fight Santa Cruz on two occasions. He also claims that Santa Cruz repeatedly promised to fight him in Belfast if a trilogy bout was required.
Santa Cruz wants to do it, but says his father Jose Santa Cruz, who is also the head trainer, is completely against the trip and advised him not to do it.
“My dad is scared that if I go over there, and even if I beat Carl Frampton, the people and the judges are going to be an influence. No matter if I beat him, he thinks that even if I beat him I’ll have the victory taken away from me," Santa Cruz told Villainfy Media.
“My dad says not to go over there, because going over there would be a really bad decision and, you know, he is right and everything but if I go over there and I get the win and beat him, for all the fans to see that I win, that’s all that matters. Hopefully they see that I win and they give me that.”
Santa Cruz has always been extremely close with his father. Last year, their bond got even stronger when the elder Santa Cruz won his battle with cancer.
The three division world champion is very clear that his father's approval is very important to him.
“It’s very important, he’s my father, he’s been there my whole life, my whole career. I always listen to my dad. If he says no, I wouldn’t go there. I do whatever he tells me to do," Santa Cruz said.
- See more at: Leo Santa Cruz: My Father Said No Belfast, Says I'll Get Robbed - Boxing News
Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer