Eddie Hearn: “George Kambosos is not undisputed, the only way to solve that is to make this fight”

By: Hans Themistode

Eddie Hearn is becoming more and more agitated with the current confusion surrounding the lightweight division.

At Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater in New York City last weekend, road warrior George Kambosos Jr. made one of the messes of the year. The Australian-born tennis player stomped on Teofimo Lopez’s backyard as a significant underdog and went on to brutally strip him of his WBA, WBO, IBF and WBC franchise titles.

After his sure victory, Mauricio Sulaiman, Chairman of the WBC sanctioning body, will go on to declare Kambosos Jr. is the division’s new undisputed world champion, a distinction he also bestows on Lopez.

However, with Devin Haney in possession of the full WBC title, Hearn is trying to debunk any confusion surrounding Kambosos Jr.’s undisputed status.

“Mauricio would say George Kambosos is undisputed,” Hearn told a group of reporters. “Other regulators, you can’t agree with a franchise belt. So there’s absolutely no arguing with a belt that you can’t merge. We just don’t want to be controversial. George Kambosos is not without controversy. The only way to solve it is to make this war.”

Just over two years ago, confusion over who was the undisputed lightweight champion began to feed its ugly head.

In the August 31 game against Luke Campbell, Vasiliy Lomachenko, who already owns the 135-pound WBA and WBO titles, took care of business with Luke Campbell. In doing so, Lomachenko won the vacant WBC title. Before Lomachenko went on to lose the belt to Teofimo Lopez in his next ring appearance, the Ukrainian star was elevated to the WBC franchise champion, a confusing new title sanctioned by the body. WBC created. That saw Haney lifted from the interim WBC title to the full title.

Initially, Sulaiman revealed that it was impossible to win a franchise championship in the ring. However, as of late, the franchise card has been handed over many times.

While Haney is proud of his current title reign, the 23-year-old never wanted to win his first championship that way. In fact, Hearn not only revealed the steps that Haney and himself took to attract Lomachenko to the ring, but the longtime promoter also revealed that Top Rated, the advertising agency that Lomachenko was in currently fighting, want not. part in fighting the young star.

“I said to Devin Haney, who do you want to fight?” said Hear about a conversation he had with Haney a few years ago. “He said Vasiliy Lomachenko. We have mapped out a roadmap to pursue Vasiliy Lomachenko for the WBC title. He became his must, Top Rated wanted to avoid Devin Haney and they asked him to be the franchise champion, Lomachenko didn’t. ”

With Haney successfully defending his WBC crown for the fourth time in his youth career against former £130 player Joseph Diaz last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, he has now turned his attention attention to Kambosos Jr.

While Hearn has revealed that Kambosos Jr. As their number one goal, if for some reason a deal can’t come to fruition, the longtime promoter believes Haney will have no shortage of options.

“We have options. A fight with Ryan Garcia, the Davis Tank is a fight he will be in. In time, who knows – Teo, Lomachenko will be fighting in a few weeks. We have options. ”