Badou Jack vacates WBA title, reign lasted for 28 days

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Badou Jack’s reign as WBA Light Heavyweight Champion is over after less than a month. “The Ripper” dropped the belt yesterday ahead of a planned purse bid with mandatory challenger Dmitry Bivol.

Jack (22-1-2, 13 KO) pulverized Nathan Cleverly for the belt on the Mayweather-McGregor card in his light heavyweight debut. It’s a bit surprising to see him vacate immediately, especially considering he fought dangerous super middleweights like George Groves and James DeGale, but the ratio between Bivol’s threat and his name recognition seems to have been a bit too much for him.

Bivol (11-0, 9 KO) was last seen demolishing Cedric Agnew on Ward-Kovalev II. He looks like the goods at age 26.
 
JayE said:
It's looking like he'll probably fight Stevenson.
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cottagecheesefan said:
that is a great fight, if true
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That actually has me really excited. Jack should be the underdog but I can't help but feel like he can pull off the upset. I'm not basing that on the Cleverly fight, either. He just has a tendency to improve and the rise to the occasion each time out. He's made a pretty big fan out of me.
 
Shoemaker said:
That actually has me really excited. Jack should be the underdog but I can't help but feel like he can pull off the upset. I'm not basing that on the Cleverly fight, either. He just has a tendency to improve and the rise to the occasion each time out. He's made a pretty big fan out of me.
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I would take Jack over Stevenson if this fight gets made. Stevenson will always be very dangerous though because of his power.
 
MMALOPEZ said:
Stevenson has to face The Venezuelan kid Alvarez if not will get stripped
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I think Alvarez is Colombian and I think he's Haymon so they'll likely figure something out. If Jack ends up fighting some no name this won't look too good, though.
 
They are doing this with more than a few fighters these days. Since there are so many belts out there, a few fighters think it's "better" to drift from one to the next without making a defense against someone that could be trouble. I'm not saying that whoever he was slated to fight was good, or that he was bad, but I am saying that this floating from belt to belt ain't good for the sport. I get that these guys want paydays and want a life after boxing, but I also know that if it's the fight game, you gotta be willing to take on all comers, and a champ defends his belt. That's what he ought to do.
 
JayE said:
I think Alvarez is Colombian and I think he's Haymon so they'll likely figure something out. If Jack ends up fighting some no name this won't look too good, though.
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South American living in Canada! He has taken side money 3 times, he claims he is not stepping aside anymore
 
Hes ducking.

If he really wanted to fight Stevenson, he couldve asked for a unification, which bypasses mandatories.
 
MMALOPEZ said:
South American living in Canada! He has taken side money 3 times, he claims he is not stepping aside anymore
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Alvarez can just sit back and make a living taking step aside money from Stevenson lol. This is getting ridiculous.
 
Stop fighting for belts that you don't wanna fight the mandatories for!!

I seriously think the sanctioning bodies need to have a "1-mandatory defense per tile won" contract for their belts. Because everyone's ducking contenders, and winning belts just to add the title on their resume but without defending that very title!

Fighters know what being a titlist entails, it comes with contenders. And if you never had plans to face them in the first place, you shouldn't be fighting for it. Fight whoever you wanna fight, but stop hijacking the belt, and stop screwing other people.

Sergey Lipinets was Indongo's IBF mandatory. But because Indongo was going for a unification with Crawford, they mad an exception. Crawford knowingly took that belt, knowing it comes with contenders. Then he vacated it! Thanks for screwing over Lipinets from his original title shot against Indongo!
 
Jack does have a pulse. I'll believe he'll fight Stevenson when it is signed.

Good fight, BTW.
 
Living off of step aside money could certainly allow a fighter to live relatively comfortably respective to their quality of life's cost of living and how capable they are at budgeting and/or investing. It'd be like receiving durational alimony each time you're asked to stand down, hypothetically collecting a lot of welfare back pay for 6 figures per case or living off of substantial interest accrued from a large sum of money you already have in your bank's savings account. You can still be a "fighter" without having to actually fight. Quite simply you'd do nothing but accept the $, provided you're content with the figure, each time your mandatory positional status is invoked as long as you're willing to play the game. Hell, you could even offer your "patience" as a full-fledged service up front to alleviate the potential burden on the titleholder that's looking for high/higher profile fights. It'd be a sweet little setup to have.
 
Kovalev's "Man Bag" said:
Living off of step aside money could certainly allow a fighter to live relatively comfortably respective to their quality of life's cost of living and how capable they are at budgeting and/or investing. It'd be like receiving durational alimony each time you're asked to stand down, hypothetically collecting a lot of welfare back pay for 6 figures per case or living off of substantial interest accrued from a large sum of money you already have in your bank's savings account. You can still be a "fighter" without having to actually fight. Quite simply you'd do nothing but accept the $, provided you're content with the figure, each time your mandatory positional status is invoked as long as you're willing to play the game. Hell, you could even offer your "patience" as a full-fledged service up front to alleviate the potential burden on the titleholder that's looking for high/higher profile fights. It'd be a sweet little setup to have.
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Lol, that is the post of a middle class middle aged man eyeing retirement right there, heh.
 
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