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Take your emotion away from this topic, and you can clearly see, that peter has entered a sport, and division that has rules, and regulations. And it clearly states that

Championship Defense Obligations.

a) Voluntary Defense Obligations: All WBC recognized champions must defend their title at least two (2) times a year. Champions will defend their titles either in a voluntary or mandatory defense, as follows:

i) any of the top ten (10) rated contenders;

ii) upon a majority vote of the Board of Governors, any boxer rated from 11 to 19 positions;

iii) a champion or a top-10 rated boxer of another immediate lower or higher weight division, subject to the majority vote of the Board of Governors;

iv) a former or retired world champion upon majority vote of the Board of Governors; and

v) another boxing organization’s champion recognized by the WBC, upon majority vote of the Board of Governors.
Now, I can understand the frustration because peter has fought 2 times to get this shot, But no one cares that vitali was the champ, and did the honorable thing and retired the belt instead of hold on to it, and fight to keep it while he got better. He let someone else take it, and run with it….
Not only that, but WBC holds the right to choose between the two options here, the number 1 contender, or a heavyweight champ that has retired, and then came back… I.E

Under extreme special circumstances, such as an unification bout or a proposed bout with a legendary boxer, that could result in a great promotion, prestige, and importance for the sport of boxing, the WBC may sanction such bout as a mandatory bout. If a mandatory challenger had already been appointed by the WBC, the winner of the special bout will then face the mandatory challenger without an intervening contest.

Now if you want to challenge whether or not vitali is legendary, that’s up to , and the can be a debate for another day. But, peter isnt fighting blind, and if he doesn’t know these rules, or like them… He can either pick a different sport…OR WAIT if he is told to. Not to mention that a fight between Vitali and Oleg would be huge GLOBALY, a lot bigger and samuel peter could ever make it.

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