IBF PLANS GORRES-ARCE ELIMINATOR
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 04 Aug 2008
IBF Championship Committee Chairman Lindsey Tucker says he will send out letters to No.3 ranked super flyweight Z ?The Dream? Gorres and No. 5 ranked Jorge Arce to face each other in an eliminator.
In an email to Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today, Tucker said he didn?t expect Arce to ?take it? and if he doesn?t the letter will go to the No.6 and will ?continue down the line until we get two guys who are willing to fight for No.1.?
At the same time Tucker said that for the next seven months newly-crowned champion Vic Darchinyan ?can fight anyone in the top 15 in an optional defense.?
He said Darchinyan can ?even elect to fight Gorres after we start the eliminator process.?
Despite our pointing out that Gorres had already faced Darchinyan in a title eliminator last February which ended in a draw and the Australian got the mandatory title shot against Dimitri Kirilov merely because he was rated one rung higher than Gorres, Tucker insisted that ?if Gorres wants a guaranteed shot at Darchinyan he must win the eliminator and become No.1 and the mandatory challenger.?
The Gorres camp bewailed the IBF decision pointing out that in order to get a shot at the title Gorres would in effect be forced to go through two eliminators.
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