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Well Jermell should be stripped. Man dodged a signed and made mandatory fight. Only problem I have is the posturing theater of waiting to strip him after he enters the ring etc. It's nonsense. It's becoming a very bad trend. I have no favorites. This is just more crooked sanctioning body coddling.
there are other champions that need to be stripped before jermell. he's taking a bigger fight & a bigger challenge than timmy presents. if they can make exceptions for unifications over mandatories, then a shot at an undisputed championship should be given the same grace. i'd understand if jermell was saying he isn't returning to fifty four but all i've heard from him is he wants to keep his belt. i'd prefer timmy get a shot at jermell for the undisputed championship & jermell will still be the lineal champion if he does go back to that weight anyway
Oh yeh, agree there. Line them up and have a strip off. Jermall, Jermell, Fury and maybe even Spence pre Crawford on timeline. It's a dog and pony show because more and more the alphabet boys are enabling and giving a pass to it for numerous arbitrary nonspecific reasons. Jermall woke up with a headache and had an argument with his wife...sure he gets an 800+ day pass . They make the rules and ignore them. With the belts honestly I just don't put much stock in them for about a decade now. They're the addiction resulting from and pushed by the drug lords aka the alphabet groups. The wbc is repeating Jermall with Fury right now as we speak. Literally "we're in no hurry to find a mandatory" and that's right after not forcing Wilder and Ortiz to find-make terms for a fight the wbc itself ordered! It's all a long con for Sulaiman, yet fans keep bailing his water and making the belts the be all and end all. Mandatories take step aside dough all the time for cases of same division unification. And some don't and should not be expected too after signing a done deal. And honestly here, I'm not at all convinced based on "being bigger" that Charlo vs Canelo will be nearly as competitive as Tszyu vs Charlo. And he'll no longer be undisputed when the fight happens...again it's the wbo playing games and waiting to literally strip him as the bell rings. So as to not get in the way of the marketing of "undisputed vs undisputed". It's beyond ridiculous.