What injury does Benavidez have? Did something happen to him in the Paez fight in May?Breh...this is the WBA rankings from before Broner/Khabib fought. Knowing TR & GB don't deal with PBC (and Al Haymon has Amir Imam as well who's been on Twitter calling out Postol & The WBC since last Saturday night being he's the mandatory), who would you have rather AB faced over Khabib?
SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT 140 Lbs / 63.50 Kgs
WBA WORLD CHAMPION VACANT EMP
WBC VACANT
IBF CESAR CUENCA
WBO TERENCE CRAWFORD
TITLE BOXER ORGANIZATION COUNTRY
1 JOSE BENAVIDEZ INTERIM CHAMP USA
2 ADRIEN BRONER USA
3 AMIR IMAM USA
4 MICHELLE DI ROCCO ITA
5 KHABIB ALLAKHVERDIEV RUS
6 MAURICIO HERRERA USA
7 LUCA GIACON ESP
8 RUSLAN PROVODNIKOV RUS
9 OMAR FIGUEROA USA
10 KIRYL RELIKH I/C BLR
11 THOMAS DULORME PUR
12 ALBERTO MOSQUERA LAC PAN
13 CZAR AMONSOT PABA PHI
14 JULIO DE JESUS DOM
15 RAMAL AMANOV INT AZE
Who would've been better? Luca Giacon?
Amir Imam would have been a better option.
Mauricio Herrera would have been better too. Did he sign with Golden Boy? I can't remember. Even if he did Oscar has shown a willingness to co-promote for titles or if it is in the best interest of one of his fighters.
And my point about Khabib not being deserving of even being ranked still stands. He was inactive for over a year; he should have been dropped completely.