Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin officially vacated his WBO Middleweight title after choosing not to go through with his mandatory title fight against Matvey Korobov. Two weeks ago, Roc Nation won the purse bid to promote the potential mandatory fight and Quillin was set to make a career high pay day of $1.4 million. After releasing a statement on his official twitter account thanking the WBO, Roc Nation President and Chief of Branding & strategy released this statement to Boxingscene.com:
"Roc Nation Sports wishes Peter Quillin good luck. I'm sure he has a bigger pay day to have given up his title and 1.4 million. We will move on to the next fight to promote"
- Michael R. Yormack.
Quick notes:
- The big question that remains is who will fight Korobov for the vacant WBO title? Billy Joe Saunders and Andy Lee are the two next in line in the WBO rankings for the Middleweight division
- What's next for Quillin? An interesting fight for Quillin would be WBA "regular" champion, Danny Jacobs.
- The roadblock with Quillin potentially fighting Jacobs for the "regular WBA title is that Dmitry Chudinov is the WBA Middleweight "interim" Champion and it was reported last month that Vladimir Hryunov was interested in matching Jacobs-Chudnov. Although those negotiations appear to have stalled.
- If the WBA mandates that Jacobs defends his regular WBA title against the interim champion, Chudinov, it may leave Quillin without a chance to fight Danny Jacobs, for the time being.
- One potential option for Quillin would be to take a stay-busy fight and wait for Sam Soliman-Jermain Taylor to play out and possibly attempt to challenge the winner of that fight for their IBF title
Billy Joe Saunders is an undefeated young prospect who is coming off a knockout victory against Emanuele Blandamura in late July. He expressed interest instantly after the news of Quillin vacating his title and it seems he would be the one who gets the first call.
Andy Lee has also already expressed interest in fighting Korobov for the vacant title, after a recent posting on twitter. Lee was mentioned as a possible opponent for WBA Superchampion Gennady Golovkin in April earlier this year, but the untimely and unfortunate death of Golovkin's father caused the scheduled April date to be cancelled. Lee fought former WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in a competitive fight back in June of 2012 and has plenty of experience being in against top fighters.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out and within the next few days and coming weeks, we should have a clearer picture of whats next for the vacant WBO Middleweight title.
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