This weekend, the upstart in boxing, The Bombardment Boxing Promotion Company, will host a professional boxing event at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England, where Paul Butler, Britain's lightest professional boxer, will compete for a temporary world champion gold belt, the lightest of the WBO boxers.
Paul Butler must have been very unhappy about such a game. Because Paul Butler was supposed to challenge the world champion title for the third time this weekend against the current WBO's lightest weight world boxer, Filipino boxer John Riel Casimero.
However, what people did not expect was that just last week, John Riel Casimero, who had arrived in Liverpool to start pre-match preparations, was disqualified for violating the rules when he lowered his weight. It is reported that John Riel Casimero is in the sauna after daily training to consume the water in his body to reduce weight, which is also a common practice of professional boxers, but according to the latest regulations of the British Boxing Council (BBBofC), this method of weight loss is prohibited. So, John Riel Casimero was disqualified.
According to WBO regulations, John Riel Casimero has not been stripped of his world boxing title, but he will attend a hearing organized by the WBO to explain the reasons (the British Boxing Council believes that John Riel Casimero is deliberately violating the rules).
In order to make the match as scheduled, the organizer of the event, Probellum Boxing Promotion Company, had to find Jonas Sultan, a fellow john Riel Casimero, to save the game and play with Paul Butler, and the title contested by the two sides became the chicken rib WBO's lightest weight temporary world boxing champion gold belt. Theoretically, the winner of this tournament will be the mandatory challenger for the WBO's lightest weight world boxing title.
Paul Butler, 33, is arguably a veteran contender in the lightest weights. As early as 2014, Paul Butler defeated the then world champion Stuart Hall to win the title of IBF's lightest weight world champion. But soon after, Paul Butler gave up the title and lowered himself to the super-lightest weight, wanting to go to the lower level to play his strength advantage. But it was clear that this was a wrong decision. In 2015, Paul Butler was defeated by Zolani Tete in the IBF Super Lightweight World Championship title, while also encountering the first KO of his career. After a few years of hanging around at the super lightest weight, Paul Butler, who had not seen any success, had no choice but to return to the lightest level.
After returning to the lightest division, Paul Butler regained his familiar form at the familiar level and was given the second chance to challenge the IBF World Lightweight Title in 2018. Unfortunately, due to the problem of weight reduction before the game, Paul Butler eventually lost to Emmanuel Rodriguez, missing out on the IBF's lightest weight world champion gold belt.
Paul Butler didn't give up, though, after a seven-game winning streak. Paul Butler took the title of WBO's lightest international boxing champion while getting the chance to challenge the world champion again.
Jonas Sultan, 31, is a 31-year-old who played in the super ropeweights until 2020 and challenged the IBF Super Ropeweight World Champion Gold Belt in 2018. But after 2020, it has been almost two years since the competition, so Jonas Sultan has soared in weight and has to upgrade to the lightest competition. In October 2021, Jonas Sultan defeated Puerto Rican boxer Carlos Carabalo to earn the WBO Title of Intercontinental Champion.
But then again, Jonas Sultan once beat WBO's current world boxing champion John Riel Casimiro in 2017, so Paul Butler had better not underestimate Jonas Sultan's strength.
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