{"id":147318,"date":"2025-04-02T06:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=147318"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:00:13","slug":"wbc-championship-status-by-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wbc-championship-status-by-division\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC Championship Status By Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WBC CHAMPIONSHIP STATUS BY DIVISION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AS PER THE RULINGS FROM THE WBC ANNUAL CONVENTION IN HAMBURG AND THE ACTIVITY WHICH HAS AFFECTED EACH DIVISION<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HEAVYWEIGHT\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oleksandr Usyk defended his title and won by UD12 in the\u00a0rematch vs Tyson Fury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agit Kabayel fought Zhang Zhilei winning the WBC heavyweight interim championship on\u00a0February 22 in Riyadh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BRIDGERWEIGHT\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Lerena vs silver champion Serhii Radchenko was announced at the\u00a0convention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* The fight will take place in South Africa on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Krzysztof W\u0142odarczyk vs Adam Balski was approved for the interim Bridgerweight title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* The fight will take place in Poland on may 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><u>CRUISERWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badou Jack was returned back to champion from his champion in recess status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badou Jack vs Ryan Rozicki to be his first challenger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* The fight will take place on May 3 in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yamil Peralta and Michal Cieslak are set to fight for the interim title.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*There has been no communicattions about this fight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noel Mikaelyan was placed as champion in recess due to promotional disputes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*The WBC has been officially notified that such disputes have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Undisputed champion Artur Beterbiev will fight a rematch with Dmitry Bibol on February 22 in Riyadh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Bivol Defetaed Beterbiev and is now Undisputed champion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interim champion David Benavidez will fight David Morrell on February 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Benavidez won and confirmed his status as mandatory contender.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The winner will be the mandatory challenger of the division to fight the winner Beterbiev vs. Bibol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*The fight has been ordered and if there is no agreement a purse bid will take place on April 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUPERMIDDLEWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Saul Alvarez is in voluntary stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jaime Munguia was ordered to fight Christian Mbilli for the interim championship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Munguia lost a fight after the convention and is now scheduled for the rematch which will happen May 3 in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A tournament is to be restructured within the top contenders of the division who are available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* WBC has ordered Mbilli vs Pacheco for the interim title if no agreement is reached a purse bid will take place April 8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>MIDDLEWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Carlos Adames will have two mandatories. Firstly, against Hamzah Sheeraz on February 22 in Riyadh. Then, the winner fights Meirim Nursultanov.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Adames defended his title in Riyadh on February 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Adames vs Meirim has been ordered, if no agreement is reached a purse bid will take place om may 6.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUPERWELTERWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Sebastian Fundora will fight Errol Spence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Spence has withdrawn from fighting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory challenger Terence Crawford<u>,<\/u>who won a final eliminator in this division has not confirmed his status to the WBC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Crawford decided not to continue in this division<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serhii Bohachuck won a final elimination on December 21, 2024 vs. Ishmael Davis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interim champion Vergil Ortiz will fight Israil Madrimov on February 22 in Riyadh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Vergil defended his title in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sebastian Fundora defended his title against Chiordale Booker on march 22 in Las Vegas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WELTERWEIGHT<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Mario Barrios made a voluntary defense against Abel Ramos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Souleymanne Cissokho was to fight Egidijus Kavaliauskas in a final eliminator, but he got hurt; WBC is waiting for the information of the new date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*The fight will take place in New Guinea on May 10<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUPERLIGHTWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Alberto Puello will make his mandatory defense against Sandor Martin on March 1 in New York. If Sandor wins, he will be allowed a voluntary defense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Puello defended his title by \u00a0decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antuane Russell was granted an indirect rematch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Russell Competed for another organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dalton Smith will fight Walid Ouizza a final elimination for the \u00a0mandatory position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*The fight will take place April 19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>LIGHTWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Shakur Stevenson will make a voluntary defense against Floyd Schofield on February 22 in Riyadh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*There was a last minute substitute due to injury and Stevenson defended by KO9 vs. Josh Padley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interim champion William Zepeda is healing from a shoulder injury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Zepeda defended his title on March 29th in a rematch vs Tevin Farmer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUPERFEATHERWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion O\u2019Shaquie Foster is in voluntary stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A final eliminator fight was ordered between Mark Magsayo and Eduardo \u201cRocky\u201d Hernandez. Both fighters will have a tune up fight before fighting the final elimination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*The purse bid is schedule for April 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FEATHERWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Brandon Figueroa will make a voluntary defense against Stephen Fulton on February 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Stephen Fulton conquered the WBC title.<\/p>\n<p>*The winner will fight champion in recess Rey Vargas immediately next.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruce Carrington will fight an eliminator fight, which could be accepted as final elimination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Bruce Carrington won a final elimination vs Enrique Vivas on march 29 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUPERBANTAMWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Naoya Inoue will make a voluntary defense against Sam Goodman on December 24 in Tokyo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Goodman has withdrawn from this fight and Inoue will defend on January 25 vs Ye Joon Kim.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Inoue defended on January 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Inoue will defend his title on May 4 vs Ramon Cardenas in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>BANTAMWEIGHT.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Junto Nakatani has faced all the number one contender during the year. \u00a0He is in the voluntary stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nakatani will defend vs. David\u00a0Cuellar on\u00a0February 24 in\u00a0Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Nakatani knocked out Cuellar in 3 rounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>SUPERFLYWEIGHT<\/u><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Jesse Rodriguez defeated Pedro Guevara in his latest bout and is in voluntary stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Moloney vs Roman \u201cChocolatito\u201d Gonzalez to fight final elimination for the mandatory position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Neither fighter replied thus cancelling this order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FLYWEIGHT<\/u><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Kenshiro Teraji is in voluntary stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interim Champion Galal Yafai won the interim title on November 30, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory challenger Francisco \u201cChihuas\u201d Rodriguez has been waiting for 2 years. It was ordered the mandatory fight Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Matchroom won the purse bid and will stage the fight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Kenshiro Teraji unified vs WBA champion Seigo Yuri Akui onMarch 13 in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><u>FLYWEIGHT<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carlos Canizales vs. Panya Pradabsri will fight for the vacant title on December 26 in Thailand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Pradsbari won the title in a controversial decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A rematch has been ordered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two final elimination fights for the mandatory defenses will take place between the top available contenders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>STRAWWEIGHT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champion Melvin Jerusalem made his mandatory fight on September 22, 2024, against Luis Castillo; he is in voluntary stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Jerusalem defended his title in Japan vs Yudai Shigeoka.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBC CHAMPIONSHIP STATUS BY DIVISION &nbsp; AS PER THE RULINGS FROM THE WBC ANNUAL CONVENTION IN HAMBURG AND THE ACTIVITY WHICH HAS AFFECTED EACH DIVISION &nbsp;<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":147339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}