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By G. Leon
14/11/2006
WBA to recognize 3 champs at 200... super, regular and interim
According to the WBA's website, Virgil Hill, who holds the WBA regular cruiserweight titlle, will get a long delay on his mandatory defense obligation in order to fight Henry Maske, who has been inactive since 1996. Let's review: O'Neill Bell is the legitimate world champion at 200 pounds and the WBA recognizes him as a super champion. Hill won the WBA regular championship in January 2006 against Valery Brudov but has not made a mandatory defense. Hill's mandatory challenger was announced as Guillermo Jones but then the WBA dropped him and gave as a reason that he "will fight for another entity." Jones never got another fight and therefore hasn't lost to anyone, but instead of restoring Jones as the mandatory, two weeks ago, the WBA sanctioned an eliminator between Grigory Drozd and Firat Arslan, which Arslan won. Hill is now healthy, his mandatory is overdue, Arslan won the eliminator, and Maske is unranked and will not fight a tune-up, so it would seem that Hill should fight Arslan for the overdue mandatory, right?