Sentences with phrase «interim champ»

Mid-way through the round however, Aldo began reaching forward with lightning fast jabs, seeking to draw the interim champ to a more desirable distance for his brutal, counter striking right hooks.

If Khabib wins and becomes interim champ and Tony is the injured legit champ that would mean booking them to unify the titles later this year and having McGregor fight somebody else, not the UFC's ideal scenario sure, but they created this mess themselves by allowing McGregor to hold the belt the whole time he was out for the MayMac fight.

Defend against interim champ or vacate and fight Diaz.

When McGregor is officially stripped of the true LW title (upon the opening bell of 223 main event) the title does not become vacant if there is an interim champ.

I mean, no sense in having an inactive interim champ when the real belt is (barring a religious holiday) ready to rock.

Also the fact that he was the interim champ who last fought in October.

During the UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold weigh - ins on Friday, Romero failed to meet the 185 - pound limit and thus can not become the interim champ even if he beats Rockhold.

After 2 years of activity the regular champion will be stripped and the interim champ will be promoted.

Not exact matches

I know he beat the # 7 ranked guy for the interim title, but Khabib just beat the # 11ranked guy and now he's undisputed champ?

That said, if they're going to do interim titles while full champs are healthy, there are two potential utilities I can see:

, Werdum is 40 (not long ago was champ and still high in rankings), Mark Hunt is 43 (was 10 - 8 when he fought for interim belt!)

If McGregor is stripped Ferguson gets promoted to full champ, injured or not (for precedent see GSP / Whittaker) That means Khabib can fight for the interim title vs Holloway, the legit, lineal LW title belongs to McGregor or Ferguson, Khabib has no claim to it whatsoever without beating one of those two, this whole situation is a complete farce and the only reason you «fans» aren't complaining about it is because you all ride Khabibs dick so hard for some reason.

In a pair of high - stakes welterweight bouts, British superstar Amir «King» Khan (29 - 3, 19 KOs) takes on two - division champ Devon Alexander «The Great» (26 - 2, 14 KOs), while Keith «One Time» Thurman (23 - 0, 21 KOs) defends his interim title against Italy's Leonard «The Lion» Bundu (31 -0-2, 11 KOs).