By: Sean Crose
The crimson sizzling Shakur Stevenson raised just a few eyebrows some weeks again when he misplaced his WBC tremendous featherweight title on the scales earlier than squaring off with Robson Conceicao.
Underdog Conceicao might have picked up the title himself had he ended up beating Stevenson, however that didn’t occur, as Stevenson simply dominated the combat. With Stevenson subsequently declaring that he’s shifting as much as light-weight, the WBC needed to arrange a match for it’s tremendous featherweight belt.
And that match has now been ordered, as Rey Vargas and O’Shaquie Foster have been instructed to sq. off for the WBC strap.
“The WBC Board of Governors voted unanimously to approve the petition from current WBC featherweight champion, Rey Vargas from Mexico, to fight for the vacant super featherweight title against mandatory contender of the division and WBC silver champion O´Shaquie Foster,” the WBC said on its webpage on Monday.
“The WBC has ordered a free negotiations period for the Vargas vs Foster fight. The winner of this fight will be committed to make 2 mandatory defenses as per WBC rules and regulations.”
The group made it some extent to clarify why Vargas was worthy of getting his petition authorised of.
“Undefeated Vargas was the WBC super-bantamweight from 2017-2019 and made 5 title defenses,” the WBC claimed. “He then moved up in weight and won the featherweight title just in his last fight defeating former champion Mark Magsayo.”
As for the 19-2 Foster, he had already lined himself up as the highest contender at tremendous featherweight for the WBC. It would strike many as being unfair if he had not been given the chance to combat for the belt. Of course, it may very well be argued issues like equity and guidelines hardly ever have something to do with the game of boxing, so it have to be satisfying for Foster to get his shot.
The 36-0 Vargas at the moment holds the WBC featherweight title since besting Mark Mayago in July. As the WBC has made clear, he’s additionally been a junior featherweight world champion.
There has been discuss of the undefeated Vargas squaring off with Leo Santa Cruz for a featherweight title unification (Santa Cruz is the WBA champ). With that bout apparently not taking place, nevertheless it seems to be like Vargas will transfer as much as tackle Foster. Should he Defeat Foster, Vargas will develop into a 3 division world titlist – no small factor.
