Astutely-Karpency: When will Nathan at long last guard in opposition to his obligatory challenger?

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s) could be building his third protection of his title on February 25th in opposition to #10 World Boxing Organization ranked contender Tommy Karpency (21-2-1, 14 KO’s), who was just in the past couple of weeks pushed to the No.10 spot by the WBO.Before that, Karpency wasn’t even ranked in the top 15 by the WBO and I couldn’t comprehend how in the universe Cleverly was can't help being permitted to battle a fella this is not even ranked in the top 15 by the WBO. While its delightful that the WBO has now authoritatively ranked Karpency at #10 well when the battle was even now affirmed, I don’t grasp is why isn’t Cleverly encountering his required challenger?

What's up with that? In his final battle, Cleverly battled and beat #13 ranked Tony Bellew by a dubious 12 adjust larger part choice final October. Now Cleverly is challenging #10 Karpency, who was a few seconds ago pushed to the #10 spot over seemingly much preferable contenders for example Isaac Chilemba, Dustin Dirks, Kariz Kariuki and Vyacheslav Uzelkov.

At the same time why isn’t Cleverly battling his required challenger? At what point is determined to do that? To what extent can Cleverly go without battling his obligatory challenger and WHY is the WBO not making him battle his required? In this case, Cleverly's #1 ranked WBO challenger is the Russian Dmitry Sukhotsky (18-1, 13 KO’s).

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