{"id":34199,"date":"2021-09-10T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=34199"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:01:17","slug":"wba-schedules-purse-bid-for-soro-madrimov-eliminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=34199","title":{"rendered":"WBA schedules purse bid for Soro-Madrimov eliminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Soro presently holds the \u201cgold\u201d title<\/p>\n<p>Unified super welterweight champion Jermell Charlo already has two mandatory challengers waiting in the wings: Erickson Lubin for the WBC and Bakhram Murtazaliev for the IBF. The WBA is working on giving him a third, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/1436047046528618502\">Dan Rafael reports<\/a> that the sanctioning body has scheduled a September 20th purse bid for a final eliminator between #1 Michel Soro and #2 Israil Madrimov.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Soro (35-2, 24 KO) achieved mandatory status in 2018 with a two-round wipeout of Greg Vendetti, setting up a rematch with the last man to beat him: Brian Castano, who\u2019d just defended his \u201cworld\u201d title by drawing with Erislandy Lara. After Soro\u2019s team won the purse bid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2019\/6\/20\/18693127\/brian-castano-vacates-wba-title-over-contract-dispute-michel-soro\">Castano elected to vacate the title<\/a>, claiming promoter Univent failed to put Castano\u2019s purse in escrow or sign off on VADA testing.<\/p>\n<p>Soro instead signed on to face Magomed Kurbanov, who wound up withdrawing the day before fight night, and instead stayed busy with a pair of knockouts over Anderson Prestot and Cedric Vitu. He hasn\u2019t fought since November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan\u2019s Madrimov (7-0, 5 KO) got fast-tracked to the big time and certainly looked the part early in his career, though he\u2019s coming off a couple of shaky performances. He went the distance for the first time against Eric Walker despite seemingly knocking him cold in the 12th, then<a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2021\/4\/3\/22365496\/akhmadaliev-iwasa-results-highlights-murodjon-retains-belts-giyasov-madrimov-dazn-boxing-news-2021\"> saw the judges again in April in a bout with unheralded Ghanian Emmany Kalombo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I like this matchup; Soro\u2019s only loss since 2012 was a split decision against the aforementioned Castano and the 26-year-old Madrimov needs a fight like this to graduate to true contender status. Let\u2019s just hope Matchroom wins the bid to head off any further Univent shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN\/AFP via Getty Images Soro presently holds the \u201cgold\u201d title Unified super welterweight champion Jermell Charlo already has two mandatory challengers waiting in the wings: Erickson Lubin for the WBC and Bakhram Murtazaliev for the IBF. The WBA is working on giving him a third, as Dan Rafael reports that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}