LAS VEGAS — Devin Haney won an interim version of the WBC lightweight title in 2019, which he believed would lead to a bout with then-WBC champion, Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Nearly four years later, Haney and Lomachenko are finally going to meet Saturday in the main event of a Top Rank pay-per-view card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
To the public, the fans and most promoters, sanctioning-body belts are despised because of how they're handed out. It's mind-boggling to consider how many compelling fights the sanctioning bodies have prevented over the years. They've stripped boxers of titles for little or no reason, their rankings are often illogical and they create multiple champions within the same weight class.
Lomachenko isn't crazy about the idea that the WBA is so proficient at having multiple champions in the same class, though the WBC, WBO and IBF all occasionally do it. Even having one champion in the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF leads to four total champions in a class, and Lomachenko believes in the Olympic way of doing things: Get the four champions, put them in against each other and come out with one person holding all four belts.
"In professional sport, it's the same thing. It should be the goal of every boxer to win the world title and be the champion, not one of four or more. If you want to prove the best of the best, have a tournament and you'll see who comes out."
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