The World Boxing Association on Thursday elevated Rolando Romero to super champion in the welterweight division, then declared the regular welterweight title vacant and set up Jack Catterall and Shakhram Giyasov to fight for it on Saturday in Egypt.

The move gives rolly romero a new status at 147 pounds, but it also opens the door for a belt fight that will take place on the card headed by Oleksandr Usyk against Rico Verhoeven. Catterall and Giyasov are now the men left to decide who carries the WBA welterweight title after the organization stripped the division’s immediate title picture back by one step.

Thursday’s decision is part of a familiar pattern in modern boxing, where sanctioning bodies continue to reshuffle titles while the sport’s weight classes grow harder to follow. The WBA’s language around Romero was paired with a separate official communiqué from Gustavo Olivieri’s OMB that mentioned a possible return by Vasiliy Lomachenko and a possible fight with Emanuel Navarrete, another sign that the governing bodies are still trying to write the sport’s next chapter through announcements rather than fights already made.

That broader criticism was front and center in the text surrounding the decisions, which said the judgments by the four boxing organizations have become irrelevant, superfluous and little more than trophies used as decoration in some fights. Olivieri was quoted saying they “pretenden seguir haciendo historia,” a line that captures the gap between what the sanctioning bodies say they are doing and how many in boxing appear to see them.

For Catterall and Giyasov, the practical effect is simple: the vacant WBA welterweight title is now theirs to fight over on Saturday in Egypt. For Romero, the elevation changes the label around him but not the conversation around the division, where belts continue to move through boardroom decisions even as the sport tries to present them as the product of merit inside the ring.