A battle destined to move to a handbag bid is touring that very path.
Eimantas Stanionis’ WBA welterweight title protection versus Shakhram Giyasov will probably be made accessible to the very best bidder. The ordered obligatory is scheduled for a Nov. 8 purse bid listening to, the WBA introduced on Wednesday.
Efforts have been made between their respective groups to succeed in an settlement inside and even after the deadline. Stanionis fights beneath the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) banner however represented on paper by TGB Promotions. Giyasov is with Matchroom Boxing and World of Boxing.
No matter progress was made, wasn’t sufficient to sway the game’s oldest sanctioning physique to go this route.
“The committee had ordered the battle final September 19,” WBA Championship Committee chairman Carlos Chavez acknowledged. “The regulatory interval of 1 month to hold out the negotiations… expired this October 19 with out acquiring a solution about an settlement.
“The bidding may have a handbag distribution of 75% for the champion and 25% for the challenger. The minimal quantity to acquire the rights to the battle will probably be US $ 150,000.00.”
WBA Championship Committee vice chairman Julio Thyme will oversee the method from WBA’s U.S. headquarters in Houston, Texas.
Stanionis (15-0. 9 knockouts) was upgraded to full WBA welterweight titlist after Terence Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) gave up his belt. The 30-year-old from Lithuania beforehand held the WBA ‘Common’ title since April 2022 however lodged only one title protection. It got here in a Could 4 resolution victory over Gabriel Maestre on the Canelo Alvarez-Jaime Munguia undercard in Las Vegas.
The victory got here greater than two years after his April 2022 title successful effort over Radzhab Butaev.
Stanionis’ empty 2023 marketing campaign was largely because of the failed efforts by Vergil Ortiz Jr. to make his approach to the ring. Their obligatory title battle was postponed thrice—as soon as attributable to a Stanionis damage and twice attributable to sickness suffered by Ortiz. PBC then pared down its second-half schedule, which left Stanionis—a 2016 Olympian—to go chilly on the sidelines.
Uzbekistan’s Giyasov (16-0, 9 KOs) grew to become the obligatory after resolution victories over Harold Calderon and Pablo Cesar Cano. In his most up-to-date begin, the 2016 Olympic Silver medalist edged Miguel Parra by way of break up resolution on July 31 in Santa Monica, California. The cardboard kicked off battle week for Riyadh Season’s U.S. launch in Los Angeles.
Giyasov has now gone the space in 5 straight begins. He’ll enter his first profession title battle.
As is the case with all purse bids, each events can nonetheless attain a deal as much as quarter-hour previous to the beginning of the session. The WBA has beforehand proven appreciable flexibility with each PBC and Matchroom in accepting verbal agreements—even ones that by no means produce an precise battle.
