Andrade no tendrá que dejar su cinto para pelear contra Parker. La WBO crea interino en el peso medio y ordena Alimkhanuly-Falcao
Daniel Pi
@BastionBoxeo
Una vez más ha quedado claro que a ciertos boxeadores se les dan beneficios mientras a otros ni siquiera se les garantizan sus derechos. En no pocas ocasiones a un monarca que había recibido la orden de defensa oficial cuando tenía planeada una pelea en otra división se le ha obligado a abandonar su cetro, pero esto no es lo que la WBO ha considerado más provechoso para el organismo y para su campeón mundial del peso medio Demetrius Andrade.
Aunque incluso varios medios estadounidenses afirmaron que era prácticamente seguro que Andrade iba a dejar su título del peso medio, esto ya no será necesario, puesto que la WBO ha intervenido para crear un provisional cinturón interino del peso medio por el que tendrán que pelear el retador obligatorio Zhanibek Alimkhanuly y el brasileño Esquiva Falcao. De ese modo, Andrade eludiría por el momento su muy difícil defensa obligatoria contra el kazajo Alimkhanuly sin perder su corona.
Hay que recordar que Alimkhanuly ya había recibido garantizada su posición de retador obligatorio del peso medio, que se habían ordenado las negociaciones con el campeón y que estas se encaminaban ya a una subasta antes de que Andrade se decidiese a buscar una pelea por título interino en el peso supermedio ante Zach Parker. Por lo tanto, la decisión de la WBO es más que cuestionable.
Por otro lado, respecto a Andrade, éste ha recibido garantizada la pelea que deseaba por título WBO interino del peso supermedio contra Zach Parker, con quien ahora tendrá 10 días para completar un acuerdo o se recurrirá a una subasta con puja mínima de 300.000 dólares. El mismo margen de tiempo tendrán también Alimkhanuly y Falcao para pactar su combate, siendo la puja mínima para la división del peso medio en caso de subasta de 200.000 dólares.
En fin, es llamativo que un boxeador que tanto ha lamentado que la gente le “evite” haya salido corriendo de un combate en el que tenía un gran riesgo de ser derrotado, estancando una vez más una división en la que reina. Todo ello a la vez que se le otorga una pelea eliminatoria ante un Parker que ya tenía en su poder la posición de aspirante obligatorio del peso supermedio.
Andrade will not have to vacate his belt to fight Parker. The WBO creates interim in the middleweight and orders Alimkhanuly-Falcao
Daniel Pi
@BastionBoxing
Once again it has become clear that certain boxers receive benefits while others not have even their rights guaranteed. On many occasions, a boxer who had received the official defense order and was planning a fight in another division has been forced to abandon his title, but this is not what the WBO has considered most profitable for the organization and for its world middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade.
Although several media outlets stated that it was practically certain that Andrade was going to give up his middleweight title, this will no longer be necessary, since the WBO has intervened to create a provisional interim middleweight belt for which will have to fight mandatory challenger Zhanibek Alimkhanuly and the Brazilian Esquiva Falcao. That way, Andrade would circumvent for the time being his very difficult mandatory defense against the Kazakh Alimkhanuly without losing his title.
It must be remembered that Alimkhanuly had guaranteed his position as mandatory middleweight challenger, that the negotiations with the champion had been orderedand that they were heading for a purse bid before Andrade decided to seek an interim title fight at super middleweight against Zach Parker. Therefore, the decision of the WBO is more than questionable.
On the other hand, regarding Andrade, he has received the fight he wanted for the interim WBO super middleweight title against Zach Parker, with whom he will now have 10 days to complete an agreement before a purse bid with minimum offers of $300,000. Alimkhanuly and Falcao will also have the same time frame to agree on their fight, with the minimum offer for the middleweight division in the event of purse bid being $200,000.
In short, it is striking that a boxer who has regretted so much that people «avoid» him has run out of a fight in which he had a great risk of being defeated, once again stalling a division in which he reigns. All this while being awarded an elimination fight against Parker, who already had in his possession the position of mandatory super middleweight challenger.