{"id":66907,"date":"2017-05-01T22:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66907"},"modified":"2017-05-01T23:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T04:05:23","slug":"world-bogus-association-wba-is-the-laughing-stock-of-boxing-with-shannon-blah-blah-blah-briggs-facing-fragile-fres-oquendo-for-the-their-vacant-heavyweight-strap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66907","title":{"rendered":"World Bogus Association (WBA) Is the Laughing Stock of Boxing with Shannon &#8220;Blah Blah Blah&#8221; Briggs Facing &#8220;Fragile&#8221; Fres Oquendo for the their Vacant Heavyweight Strap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1637\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1637\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1637_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"bb1a80f48a\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1637\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you find this fight a COMPLETE JOKE?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1637-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-4170\" name=\"poll_1637\" value=\"4170\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-4170\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-4171\" name=\"poll_1637\" value=\"4171\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-4171\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1637);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1637); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1637-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66907 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66907 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-66909 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FresOquendo-vs-briggs-3-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"fresoquendo-vs-briggs-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FresOquendo-vs-briggs-3-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FresOquendo-vs-briggs-3.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 3rd at the Hardrock Casino Hotel &amp; Casino, former WBO Heavyweight Champion Shannon \u201cBlah Blah Blah\u201d Briggs, 60-6-1, 53 KO\u2019s who returned once again, to boxing in April of 2014, and since then, has not fought anyone with a pulse, faces another faded fighter in \u201cFragile\u201d Fres Oquendo, 37-8, 24 KO\u2019s who was unsuccessful in two heavyweight title efforts and who by the time of this fight happening, will not have fought in almost three years!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I said three years\u2026. But\u2026. The World Bogus Association (WBA) has him vying for their title against Briggs who has not faced anyone remotely in the top ten.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s call this what it is. Utter BULLSHIT. Belts today mean nothing! It truly is an absolute shame because though I personally have zero faith in any of these bogus organizations, I do understand what it means to any fighter to have the moniker of champion from one of the four major organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This fight MEANS NOTHING.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>End of story\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSosNReDQlc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt On June 3rd at the Hardrock Casino Hotel &amp; Casino, former WBO Heavyweight Champion Shannon \u201cBlah Blah Blah\u201d Briggs, 60-6-1, 53 KO\u2019s who returned once again, to boxing in April of 2014, and since then, has not fought anyone with a pulse, faces another faded fighter in \u201cFragile\u201d Fres Oquendo, 37-8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10928],"tags":[16832],"class_list":["post-66907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","category-columns-by-bad-brad-berkwitt","tag-world-bogus-association-wba-is-the-laughing-stock-of-boxing-with-shannon-blah-blah-blah-briggs-facing-fragile-fres-oquendo-for-the-their-vacant-heavyweight-strap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66915,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66907\/revisions\/66915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}