JMM v. Juan Diaz: Sanctioned by the WBO

**Lance Uppercut** · 02-18-2009 08:15 PM

I guess Golden Boy won out. If you recall Frank Warrent wanted Kahn's fight to be for the vacant alphabet title.

**bzkfn** · 02-18-2009 08:22 PM

Wow, I thought for sure Khan-Barrera was gunna get it with Warren having alot of sway with the WBO and Barrera being the #1 Ranked fighter in their division. Glad that they went with the better fight between the 2 top lightweights in the world right now.

**Lance Uppercut** · 02-18-2009 08:56 PM

It will also bring the WBO title in line with The Ring Title which, by proxy, will give legitimacy to the WBO title.

**HattonTheHammer** · 02-18-2009 11:23 PM

YES

Finally the sport serves us with some legitimacy and we get an authentic world title fight on the 28th.

Not that this fight needed anything else to sell it over for the hardcore boxing fan.

Gonna be a great fight!!

**Howlin Mad Missy** · 02-19-2009 10:10 AM

the right decision.

**fan johnny** · 02-19-2009 12:46 PM

Well... seeing as they rank Barrera as #1 winner should have to face Khan/Barrera. If Diaz's beats Marquez where's he get placed on the P4P list?

**p4pking** · 02-19-2009 06:35 PM

It's a no brainer that this fight SHOULD be a world title fight rather than Khan-Barrera, though I haven't been keeping up with the rankings at all(not that there's ever much reason to). Marquez is the linear champ and both fighters are big draws, it's an excellent match up period and neither need the belt. While it doesn't exactly make the fight more intriguing being for the WBO title, the winner deserves any bargaining chip they can get I suppose. Personally having just watched Campbell Funeka I feel Ali definetly deserved to win the belts, but I'd hate to see Amir Khan become a world champ if he manages to beat an old blown up MAB, so good decision really.