The WBA has pledged to reduce the number of its world champions after announcing it will no longer recognize the bridgerweight division.<\/p>\n
The bridgerweight, named as such because it bridges the gap between cruiserweight and heavyweight, has not taken off and the WBA has said it will no longer have bridgerweight bouts once scheduled fights at the weight have taken place.<\/p>\n
The sanctioning body issued a statement that read: \u201cThe WBA remains committed to its goal of reducing the number of world champions, and our recent decisions continue to move in that direction. In this regard, it is important to note that three recently announced bouts have not been approved by the WBA as of this date.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdditionally, the WBA announces that it will discontinue recognition of the bridgerweight division. The remaining previously approved bouts in the weight class will be completed during a transition period. Thereafter, no bridgerweight contests will be sanctioned by the WBA.\u201d<\/p>\n
The WBC is now the only sanctioning body that recognizes the weight class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WBA has pledged to reduce the number of its world champions after announcing it will no longer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1039430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,286377,38808,79,16,15,21854],"class_list":["post-1039429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-weight-class","tag-bridgerweight","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116784129723754775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}