Quote Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan View Post
The first Unification fight in a division where the lineal title has been vacated is automatically a lineal title fight.
This means that the winner of Chagaev-Ibragimov would have been lineal Heavyweight champion of the world, right? Jesus...

Also, you could argue that Klitschko has already unified the IBF and IBO titles. Sure, the IBO isn't anything special, but isnt that true about the WBO as well?