A FURIOUS Daniel Geale is demanding the WBA give him the belt he earned by defeating Felix Sturm after being stripped as the sanctioning body's champion.
Geale has lost his WBA middleweight title for choosing to fight Anthony Mundine over mandatory challenger Gennady Golovkin, but it can be revealed the WBA has not even sent Geale the belt all championship winners receive as a memento of their achievement.
Geale (28-1, 15KO) was handed the IBF belt for his unification victory over Felix Sturm in Germany last September, but the WBA has made a number of excuses -- including that it was lost in transit -- in explaining why their belt wasn't delivered to the Australian.
"We will make sure we get that belt, trust me," Geale told thetelegraph.com.au. "I earned that belt, I travelled to a pretty imposing place and won, so I think I deserve it."
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The WBA's decision to strip Geale of the title is bureaucracy at its best.
Geale has been punished for Sturm's refusal to fight mandatory challengers when he was champion. When Geale won the title, the WBA gave him four-and-a-half months instead of the regular nine months to defend against the mandatory -- in this case Golovkin (24-0, 21KO).
Their reasoning was that their mandatory challengers had been ignored for too long.
"What Felix Sturm did by not defending against the mandatory had nothing to do with me," Geale said.
"If I had taken the mandatory with the WBA, then I'm quite sure the IBF would have stripped me so I was in a no-win situation."As I said I have no problem fighting Golovkin anywhere, but things have to be right. My management aren't stupid, we're not going to put ourselves in a situation where we're being exploited.
"I want titles, I want to unify titles."
The WBA's drastic move means Geale and Mundine will fight for the IBF middleweight title only, in a bout to take place close to Australia Day in January next year.
Read more on this story in tomorrow's Mercury.
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