Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
Wlad is keeping the titles together and in order to do that you have to fight your mandatories. If I was Wlad I would have another fight ready in a couple of months.
I agree some people seem to forget or just ignore that this is a mandatory defence, to be realistic there really isnt anyone around who is a great threat, even if he does beat the suggestions above no one is going to care and will just write off this victories as wlad fighting bums and I think guys like wilder and jennings dont want anything to do with wladimir just yet... All wladimir really has left is get all 4 major belts and to do that he needs to fight the mandatories.. Hopefully he does get through a few fights this year and clears out the current mandatory fellows and gets to the wbc belt...

How lepai got to be mandatory challenger is a bit suspect though but you cant blame wladimir for that.