To everyone who keeps saying that Yoenlis Hernandez deserves a world title shot vs Denzel Bentley I'm going to tell you why that's BS! 1. He NEVER fought in a world title eliminator and was granted that spot due to a petition from his team. the only top contender he fought was Francisco Veron, Terrell Gausha was coming off 2 losses when he fought Yoenlis and Kyrone Davis was a fringe contender 2. The WBO hasn't had a mandatory for 2 years because Janibek wasn't doing anything with the belts. He fought a very overmatched Vinchenzo Gualltieiri in a unification fight, pulled out of the Andrei Mikhailovich fight because of dehydration in July of 2024. The WBO gave him time to recover and didn't strip him and he fought Mikhailovich in October 2024. He then tested positive for Meldonium in late 2025 and the WBO let Janibek keep his belt until March of 2026. So for 3 months nothing happend 3. Denzel Bentley wins interim title in April & gets elevated to full champion in July. So it took the WBO 7 months from the time of Janibek failed test crown a new champion and 3 months to get the belt off of him. 4. Denzel Bentley & Aaron Mckenna both agreed to a WBO-IBF unification fight in early September. The WBO blocked this unification fight which is a more significant fight for the division and it would've paid Bentley, Mckenna and eventually Hernandez more money in the long run. They blocked this unification the same calendar year that the WBO & IBF will be holding the first annual unified convention in December all in the name of being petty to Zuffa Boxing. That convention will be held to discuss the WBO & IBF working together more but when the time came for the 2 sanctioning bodies to work together they blocked the fight. So why exactly are we even having a convention this year? Its ass backwards 5. The WBO should have either made Yoenlis Hernandez fight in a proper WBO eliminator or shouldn't have ever elevated Denzel Bentley their lack of urgency and clear favoritism for Yoyo is why all this is a mess. The WBA is no different, Yoyo Was 7-0 before he fought Kyrone Davis and hadn't fought a soul worth talking about in professional boxing heading into that fight. Yet he was ranked #1 heading into that fight. Yoenlis Hernandez is defintley one of the better fighters in the middleweight division at this moment in time but he's been the beneficiary of clear favoritism due to Luis Decubas being a very well connected manager and being someone that the boxing industry has anointed to be the next big thing. That's what boxing fans don't get, when this industry prepicks you to be the next big thing a lot of favors and favoritism will be done in order for you to get the most favorable outcomes. You can love that fact or hate that fact, but it is reality. Denzel Bentley fought Janibek and exposed him as not being a boogeyman even in defeat and you really think he's scared of this guy? Use your head people, its politics of the highest level at play here!!!