New super heavyweight division? WBA, WBC & IBF Meeting in Cancun

By Gabriel F. Cordero

A new super heavyweight division will be one of the items on the agenda when principal members of the IBF, WBA and WBC meet on Friday in Cancun, Mexico. Those in attendance are to include WBC President José Sulaimán, WBC Executive Secretary Mauricio Sulaimán, WBC legal advsor Gabriel Peñagarícano, IBF President Marian Muhammad, IBF advisor Larry Hazzard, WBA Executive Vice-President GIlberto Jesus Mendoza and WBA ratings director Oliver Gómez.

“My expectation would be to continue with the good and close inter-organtization relations for the benefit of boxing,” said Mendoza Jr. who also plans to address the main threats to world boxing, such as alternative sports, the economic crisis, and the lack of boxing figures as ambassadors of the sport.

The agenda of the meeting in Mexico includes:

1. Unifications of titles
2. Inter-organizational classifications of boxers
3. Working with local and national boxing commissions
4. Creation of the super heavyweight division
5. Proposed McCain legislation in the USA

No, No, No, the last thing boxing needs is more divisions and more belts. God there has not been much good news concerning boxing the last couple of weeks.

Super HW division though would be freakshow stuff exclusively and might draw ratings.

"threats such as alternative sports"

Wonder what that means eh?

Wonder what the weight limit would be? Would the K brothers have to cut weight?

Stupid. Not surprising though. I'm not a fan of proposed 'Super HW" divisions in either MMA or boxing. Not necessary IMO

bobbitt15 wrote:

Stupid. Not surprising though. I'm not a fan of proposed 'Super HW" divisions in either MMA or boxing. Not necessary IMO

I agree totally

I HATE THIS FUCKING IDEA

I must be the only one in favor of this idea.

there were 6'5 260 pound monsters 80 years ago
this is just stupid in my opinion

I would rather they started disciplining heavyweights who enter the ring grossly overweight.

Used to be 8 divisions and 8 belts

know we have 17 divisions with 4 belts atleast per division

LAST THING WE NEED IS MORE FUCKING DIVISIONS AND BELT HOLDERS