The WBO Strips Guillermo Rigondeaux of a 122-pound belt
Orlando, FL (October 28th, 2015)– Junior featherweight world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux was stripped of one of his 122-pound title belts Wednesday because of inactivity according to ESPN’s Dan Rafael .
The WBO world championship committee voted unanimously at its 28th annual convention, which is taking place in Orlando, Florida, this week, to vacate the belt, rejecting Rigondeaux’s plea in a “show cause” letter the organization had asked him to provide stating his case to remain champion.
Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs), 35, was inactive for 10 months and did not have a fight scheduled.
The WBO will order on Thursday a fight between Mexico’s Cesar Juarez (17-3, 13 KOs), No. 1 in the organization’s ratings, and No. 2 Nonito Donaire (35-3, 23 KOs) for the vacant title who is promoted by Top Rank. The date and venue has not been set at this time.
In the Rigondeaux/Caribe response to the WBO “show cause” order, they argued in an Oct.16 letter that Rigondeaux should be granted an exception because of a “lack of appropriate available opponents willing to fight” and that “it would be an abuse of discretion to vacate because Mr. Rigondeaux has never failed to defend against the mandatory challenger.”
In its ruling, the WBO said it was “not moved to consider the reasons contained therein to constitute ’cause’ for Mr. Rigondeaux’s failure to comply with our regulations for world championship contests.”
The WBO further said in its ruling that “this committee shares Team Rigondeaux’s opinion that he is a fighter of utmost skill and pedigree, a gifted athlete that is not only perhaps the greatest amateur boxer ever, but also one of the top pound-for-pound professionals in the world, and we also recognize that Mr. Rigondeaux’s talent, record of accomplishment and complicated style, invariably pose difficulties securing premium fights on the top-tier stage. But that it is the boxing promoter’s paramount responsibility — not ours or that of any sanctioning organization for that matter — to secure, organize, and produce such fights.”
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