Jermell Charlo has been stripped of his WBA junior middleweight title, which means the previous undisputed champion has misplaced the final of his undisputed titles.
WBA president Gilberto Mendoza knowledgeable Dan Rafael of the championship committee’s resolution to alleviate the 33-year-old Charlo of his closing piece of title {hardware}.
Charlo is 35-2-1 (19 KOs), now with out a belt for the primary time since 2019, and he hasn’t boxed since a lopsided defeat – transferring up two weight lessons – to Canelo Alvarez on the T-Cell in Las Vegas final September.
Charlo fought as soon as in 2020, as soon as in 2021, as soon as in 2022 and Canelo was his solely combat final 12 months.
Charlo didn’t defend the undisputed mantle he earned having unified towards Brian Castano in 2022 in a rematch of their 2021 draw, however whereas he might nonetheless be classed as a lineal champion, the WBA has now formally referred to as him a champion in recess.
Charlo has had out of the ring issues, and having fought Canelo at tremendous middleweight, he had not knowledgeable the governing physique of his plans, both of preventing once more or, in that case, what weight class he would return in.
As anticipated, the WBA title will now be on the road on this Friday, (March 8), in Saudi Arabia when Uzbek Israil Madrimov, the WBA No. 1, and Russia’s Magomed Kurbanov (No. 2) meet.
Madrimov is 9-0-1 (6 KOs) whereas Kurbanov is 25-0 with 13 stoppages.
