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Jose Benevidez Jr was the WBA Interim aka WBA Regular Junior Welterweight Champion, #1 contender, & mandatory challenger...he had the choice of either accepting the fight with AB for the WBA Super Junior Welterweight Championship or turning it down. They informed him of this last year after AB beat Khabib Allakhverdiev.
If he would've accepted the fight, if TR & PBC didn't come to agreement for the fight, it would immediately go to purse bid or AB would be stripped.
Instead, Benevidez chose to vacate the WBA Regular Championship and move up to 147 rather than take the bout with AB....in hopes of jumping everyone in line in the WBO rankings & possibly fighting Jessie Vargas at 147, even though Benevidez already had a guaranteed title shot after Theophane at 140 against Broner which would be worth more money/bigger fight.
That leaves Ricky Burns vs WBA #2 ranked Michele Di Rocco to fight for the WBA Regular Championship and mandatory challenger spot for Broner
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So............yes? It would have had to gone to a purse bid. So Benavidez did the easier thing and wants to fight Vargas
not surprised
Jose Benevidez Jr was the WBA Interim aka WBA Regular Junior Welterweight Champion, #1 contender, & mandatory challenger...he had the choice of either accepting the fight with AB for the WBA Super Junior Welterweight Championship or turning it down. They informed him of this last year after AB beat Khabib Allakhverdiev.
If he would've accepted the fight, if TR & PBC didn't come to agreement for the fight, it would immediately go to purse bid or AB would be stripped.
Instead, Benevidez chose to vacate the WBA Regular Championship and move up to 147 rather than take the bout with AB....in hopes of jumping everyone in line in the WBO rankings & possibly fighting Jessie Vargas at 147, even though Benevidez already had a guaranteed title shot after Theophane at 140 against Broner which would be worth more money/bigger fight.
That leaves Ricky Burns vs WBA #2 ranked Michele Di Rocco to fight for the WBA Regular Championship and mandatory challenger spot for Broner
So............yes? It would have had to gone to a purse bid. So Benavidez did the easier thing and wants to fight Vargas
not surprised
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So............yes? It would have had to gone to a purse bid. So Benavidez did the easier thing and wants to fight Vargas
He didn't want any problems with THEE Problem
#AboutBillions
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Another person affiliated with Jay-Z that's highly skilled in his craft sitting on the sidelines
Great name too, Ima have to start calling Rigo that
Jay Rigotronica
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Axum Ezana
Driving in the fast lane
fetty wap still aint ready
all these injuries
fetty wap still aint ready
this shameful motherfukker
Lucas Matthysse bows out of May 7 fight with left eye injury
Argentine slugger Lucas Matthysse, whose injured left eye is still giving him problems, has bowed out his planned return fight, Golden Boy Promotions vice president Eric Gomez told ESPN.com on Wednesday.
Matthysse was scheduled to return on May 7 to fight in the HBO PPV co-feature of the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan middleweight championship bout at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. A deal was in the works for a welterweight fight with Mauricio Herrera (22-5, 7 KOs), who was also going to move up in weight.
But Matthysse is not physically ready to return, said Gomez, who has been meeting with Mario Arano, Matthysse's co-promoter from Argentina, this week in Los Angeles.
Lucas Matthysse has bowed out of his planned return fight, still dealing with an injured left eye. Tom Hogan/Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions
"He was training and getting ready for the fight, but he felt some discomfort in his eye and he wants more rest," Gomez said of the longtime junior welterweight contender and one of the best pure punchers in boxing.
In his last fight, on Oct. 3 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, Matthysse challenged Viktor Postol for a vacant junior welterweight world title. In an upset, Postol knocked out Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs) in the 10th round with a shot to the left eye that fractured his orbital bone.
Matthysse went into that fight coming off one of his biggest victories, a majority decision win against former junior welterweight titlist Ruslan Provodnikov in April -- a top fight of the year contender.
Gomez tamped down rumors that the 33-year-old Matthysse is retiring.
"He's not going to fight on May 7. He is going to rest more but he is not retiring," Gomez said. "Mario talked to him about it. What Lucas is going to do is rest, take some more time for his eye to heal and see how it is. In a few months we'll see how he's doing and go from there."
Gomez said he and Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya will begin looking at other possible fights for the Alvarez-Khan co-feature.
Matthysse (eye injury) bows out of return fight
This dude got his eye socket broken TWICE...once by Swift and the other by Postol
Argentine slugger Lucas Matthysse, whose injured left eye is still giving him problems, has bowed out his planned return fight, Golden Boy Promotions vice president Eric Gomez told ESPN.com on Wednesday.
Matthysse was scheduled to return on May 7 to fight in the HBO PPV co-feature of the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan middleweight championship bout at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. A deal was in the works for a welterweight fight with Mauricio Herrera (22-5, 7 KOs), who was also going to move up in weight.
But Matthysse is not physically ready to return, said Gomez, who has been meeting with Mario Arano, Matthysse's co-promoter from Argentina, this week in Los Angeles.
Lucas Matthysse has bowed out of his planned return fight, still dealing with an injured left eye. Tom Hogan/Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions
"He was training and getting ready for the fight, but he felt some discomfort in his eye and he wants more rest," Gomez said of the longtime junior welterweight contender and one of the best pure punchers in boxing.
In his last fight, on Oct. 3 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, Matthysse challenged Viktor Postol for a vacant junior welterweight world title. In an upset, Postol knocked out Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs) in the 10th round with a shot to the left eye that fractured his orbital bone.
Matthysse went into that fight coming off one of his biggest victories, a majority decision win against former junior welterweight titlist Ruslan Provodnikov in April -- a top fight of the year contender.
Gomez tamped down rumors that the 33-year-old Matthysse is retiring.
"He's not going to fight on May 7. He is going to rest more but he is not retiring," Gomez said. "Mario talked to him about it. What Lucas is going to do is rest, take some more time for his eye to heal and see how it is. In a few months we'll see how he's doing and go from there."
Gomez said he and Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya will begin looking at other possible fights for the Alvarez-Khan co-feature.
Matthysse (eye injury) bows out of return fight
This dude got his eye socket broken TWICE...once by Swift and the other by Postol
I was head of and have no shame being #matthyssemafia but this dude is clearly mentally shook of fighting game opponents.
back to Argentina eating lizards and fighting coal miners for hot sauce la machina
back to Argentina eating lizards and fighting coal miners for hot sauce la machina