With David Haye as their Heavyweight champion I felt it was time to look at the rankings of the WBA. It was time to see if their top 15 made any real sense, and to see who, if Ruslan Chagaev can’t fight Haye, will be Haye’s next mandatory defence. The rankings used in this article are the WBA’s rankings from December 2010 and are freely available on WBAonline.com.
Firstly their champion is David Haye, Haye won the title by beating Nikolay Valuev on 7th November 2009, since then he has made a mandatory defence (against John Ruiz 3rd April 2010) and a voluntary defence (against Audley Harrison 13th November 2010). As he has failed to secure a bout with either of the Klitschko brothers in a unification bout he is almost certain to need to make a “mandatory” defence.
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Haye the WBA and Rahman
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