{"id":30476,"date":"2020-04-22T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/estado-de-la-division-de-peso-superligero-del-wbc\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T19:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:58:53","slug":"status-of-the-wbc-lightweight-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/status-of-the-wbc-lightweight-division\/","title":{"rendered":"STATUS OF THE WBC LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"
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STATUS OF THE WBC LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At its 57th<\/sup>\u00a0WBC Annual Convention in Canc\u00fan, Mexico, the WBC Board of Governors: (a) designated Vasiliy\u00a0Lomachenko as WBC Franchise Champion; and \u00a0(2) elevated then reigning WBC Interim Lightweight Champion Devin Haney to WBC World Lightweight Champion.<\/p>\n

The WBC then approved the fight on November 2, 2019, between Javier Fortuna of Dominican Republic and Jesus Cu\u00e9llar of Argentina as a Final Eliminator\u00a0to determine the Mandatory Challenger of the Lightweight Division. \u00a0Fortuna defeated Cu\u00e9llar and became Mandatory Challenger to Haney.<\/p>\n

On November 9, 2019, Haney defeated Alfredo Santiago in a voluntary defense of this WBC World Championship and retained his title but became injured.<\/p>\n

On December 13, 2019, the WBC named Devin Haney WBC Champion-In-Recess due to his injury and ordered Mandatory Challenger Javier Fortuna to fight Luke Campbell for the WBC World Lightweight Championship.<\/p>\n

On January 27, 2020, the Fortuna and Campbell teams officially notified the WBC that they had reached an agreement concerning the Fortuna v. Campbell fight. The fight was contracted and scheduled to take place on April 14, 2020. \u00a0In light of the ongoing pandemic, the fight did not take place.<\/p>\n

On March 23, 2020, the Haney camp officially notified the WBC that Champion Haney was completely recovered from his injury, and was willing, ready and able to fight. Accordingly, and in light of the fact that the Fortuna v. Campbell bout never took place, they made a formal request that the WBC reinstate Devin Haney as WBC World Lightweight Champion.<\/p>\n

On April 8, 2020, per the WBC specific request, the Haney camp produced to the WBC medical clearance documentation that confirms that Haney is fit to box and to resume his career.\u00a0 Mr. Campbell\u2019s and Mr. Fortuna\u2019s also contacted the WBC stating their respective positions regarding their contracted bout against each other.<\/p>\n

The WBC Rules & Regulations give the WBC the absolute discretion to designate Champions and Mandatory Contenders, to withdraw any such designation and to order fights.<\/p>\n

Pursuant to, and consistent with, the governing WBC Rules & Regulations, and after carefully considering the positions of all the boxers involved and the special circumstances which the present global health crisis has created, the WBC Board of Governors conducted a vote which resulted in the following ruling:<\/p>\n

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  1. Reinstate Devin Haney as WBC World Lightweight Champion;<\/li>\n
  2. Grant Champion Haney a voluntary defense of that Championship;<\/li>\n
  3. Sanction the Javier Fortuna vs. Luke Campbell bout to be for the WBC Interim World Lightweight Championship and Mandatory Challenger of the division; and<\/li>\n
  4. Order the winner of Champion Haney\u2019s voluntary defense to fight the winner of the Fortuna vs. Campbell bout immediately after that voluntary defense takes place without any intervening bout.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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