Fury vs Charr axed by WBC rating as three AJ alternatives emerge

Mahmoud Charr is unable to challenge Tyson Fury for the WBC heavyweight title after entering the new WBC qualifications for September.

World Boxing News explained that Charr previously had no chance of being penalized for a Fury world championship fight due to his ranking.

The German-based fighter was not in the Top 40, let alone the Top 15, where he needed to be for a voluntary ban.

Fury vs Charr

The WBC elevates Charr despite not fighting since May. However, this is still not efficient enough for a Fury vs. Charr matchup in November or December.

Fury wants to fight this winter on British soil, with Anthony Joshua his preferred option. Charr has been sounded out in case AJ doesn’t agree to the terms.

But that backup is now off the table if Fury has any ambition to defend the title against Charr due to a collapse from Joshua.

Joshua entered the rankings at number six, a position high enough to compete for the green and gold strap if a deal is eventually struck.

If not, as US promoter Bob Arum believes, then Fury has few options for that voluntary defense.

At this point, Charr would have to ask for a special waiver to challenge Fury in the future.

Tyson Fury’s fighting options

Derek Chisora ​​moved up two more places after beating Kubrat Pulev earlier this year. Fury has mentioned “WAR” on more than one occasion for a trilogy fight.

Martin Bakole becomes another solid option due to his ties to the UK. But it must be said that there are few options for Fury of those three.

The rest of the top fifteen are either out of commission due to upcoming fights or have little interest in a UK Pay Per View.

Otto Wallin, whom Fury controversially defeated in 2019, would be a potential fourth contender. The Swede exclusively relayed his views to WBN on a possible rematch earlier this week.

“Yes, I am ready to fight him again. But I think he’s not going to fight me unless he makes me the mandatory challenger and he’s forced to fight me,” Wallin told WBN.

“I think the cuts he had were very bad. He had 47 points after the fight. If he had those cuts, the doctors would have stopped the fight, for sure.”

WBC Ratings – Heavyweight [September 2022]:

1 Deontay Wilder USA 2 Andy Ruiz Jr. Mexico/USA USA 3 Frank Sanchez Cuba CONTINENTAL AMERICA 4 Robert Helenius Finland 5 Arslanbek Makhmudov Russia/Canada NABF 6 Anthony Joshua GB 7 Dillian Whyte GB 8 Otto Wallen Sweden 9 Martin Bakole Congo/GB 10 Zhan Kossobutskiy Kazakhstan INTL 11 Luis Ortiz Cuba 12 Michael Hunter USA 13 Derek Chisora ​​GB 14 Filip Hrgovic Croatia 15 Efe Ajagba Nigeria/USA

WBC Voluntary Court

16 Agit Kabayel Germany 17 Murat Gassiev Russia 18 Jared Anderson USA19 Mahmoud Charr Libya20 Zhilei Zhang China

WBN editor Phil has over ten years of boxing news experience. He follows WBN on Facebook @officialworldboxingnews and Twitter @worldboxingnews.

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