Super Champions and Interim Champions are just a foolish way for the WBA to keep the championship title in circulation and collect more sanctioning fees. They couldn't settle for collecting a fee from 1 champion per division in a given amount of time (think of how often a 'champion' fights the longer he keeps a belt) so they figured it would be more profitable to be able to sanction 2-3 champions in that same span of time. When Hopkins was fighting every 9-12 months, the WBA had to wait those 9-12 months to get paid. However, make Hopkins the Super Champion and make Masoe the 'plain' WBA champion and you have a bit more action with the belts and a bit more money to collect. I never understood why Hopkins fought Joppy for the WBA title when he had been stripped of it to be a Super Champion and would win just to get stripped again and still be a Super Champion.