WBC outrageously rewards Fulton for missing weight by creating new title for him
WBC outrageously rewards Fulton for missing weight by creating new title for him
Source: WBC
06/12/2025
Source: WBC
06/12/2025
The WBC has committed a stunning breach of boxing tradition as well as general principles of fairness. Tonight (December 6th) in San Antonio, Texas, O’Shaquie Foster will face Stephen Fulton in a fight that was supposed to be for Foster's WBC junior lightweight (130-pound) title. Fulton is the WBC featherweight (126-pound) champion but arrived at the weigh-in two pounds over the weight limit at 132. (Foster made weight). Under decades of boxing tradition, Fulton would be ineligible for the title having failed to make weight. But the WBC made up a new rule on the spot, authorizing Foster vs. Fulton to determine the WBC interim lightweight (135-poud) title. The WBC has an active lightweight champion, Shakur Stevenson, and even worse, just a couple of days ago at the WBC convention, the WBC agreed to sanction two different boxers to compete for the interim lightweight title. Those two lightweights, Ricardo Núñez and Jadel Herrera, have been treated unfairly by this ridiculous ruling, forcing them to yield to Fulton, who has never fought as a lightweight and is being rewarded for failing to make weight..