For the reason that World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) president prioritized the World Title Discount Plan, a lot progress has been made in the direction of the purpose of getting just one champion per division. With completely different choices and resolutions, vital progress has been made and 11 of the 17 divisions are actually totally resolved, whereas the others are on monitor.
Thus far, there are 10 single WBA champions, with the addition of the bantamweight division, which is presently vacant. The champions are Kenshiro Teraj in gentle flyweight; Artem Dalakian, flyweight; Joshua Franco, tremendous flyweight; Murodjon Akhmadaliev, tremendous bantamweight; Leigh Wooden, featherweight; Hector Garcia, tremendous featherweight; Alberto Puello, tremendous light-weight; Jermell Charlo, tremendous welterweight; Dmitry Bivol, gentle heavyweight; and Arsen Goulamirian, cruiserweight.
The minimal weight will likely be selected March 1st when Thammanoon Niyomtrong and Erick Rosa will battle to find out the one champion of the division. Within the middleweight division, the battle between Gennady Golovkin and Erislandy Lara has already been ordered, which may also depart a single champion.
The Championships Committee continues to make progress within the different classes which have two champions. In welterweight, the subsequent battle of tremendous champion Errol Spence Jr. is predicted, who obtained permission to face Keith Thurman. In the meantime, champion Eimantas Stanionis will face Vergil Ortiz Jr. on April 29. The winners of each bouts will then meet to find out the only real 147-pound champion.
At light-weight, Devin Haney and Gervonta Davis stay champions, whereas at tremendous middleweight there are Saul Alvarez and David Morrell and at heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois additionally maintain championships. The WBA screens these divisions for the absolute best choice.
