The World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) Championships Committee permitted on Monday, June 5, 2023, that Marlon Tapales, WBA tremendous bantamweight champion, will unify his belt towards the winner of Naoya Inoue and Stephen Fulton. In the meantime, Murodjon Akhmadaliev and Tomoki Kameda should meet in a remaining eliminator to find out the division’s necessary challenger.
Tapales defeated Akhmadaliev final April 8 to retain the crown in a controversial and shut combat. Matchroom Boxing made a direct rematch request to the WBA and though there are components that might assist it, it isn’t possible to take action presently.Â
The brand new champion and his group requested the WBA for permission to combat the winner of Inoue and Fulton, whose bout will probably be on July 25. This bout could be a unification of the WBA, IBF, WBC and WBO titles, which is a robust purpose to confess it for the sake of boxing.Â
Akhmadaliev will now combat Kameda, who received a semi-final eliminator towards Yonfrez Parejo and the winner of this combat would be the subsequent opponent of whoever wins between Tapales / Inoue /Fulton on a date to be decided later.
This decision leaves with out impact some other that has been issued earlier than and any upcoming scenario will probably be reviewed and resolved with the usage of the WBA guidelines.
