What's the difference between a Super and Regular Champion?

The World Boxing Association has two champions at Super Welterweight. Shane Mosley is their 'Super Champion' and Vyacheslav Senchenko is their 'Regular Champion' in the SAME weight class. What's the deal lads?|||It's a ridiculous rule that the WBA has had for a few years now and to explain it, it's kind of tough but bear with me, here it goes:





In a weight division where the WBA titlist has unified the title with another sanctioning body belt or if the WBA titlist has made 5 successful title defenses, the WBA will name him their "super" champion and they will make the top 2 available contenders fight for the "regular" title. The reason that they give for "super" champions is so that the unified champion will not have to make as many mandatory defenses since a "super" champion only has to make a mandatory defense every 18 months but most knowledgeable people will tell you that it's just another attempt to make more money through sanctioning fees (just like all of the interim titles that are out there). The WBA has also broken their own rules regarding the "super" titles because in the welterweight division, Shane Mosley won the "super" title after beating Antonio Margarito because when Margarito beat Miguel Cotto, they deemed him the "super" champion even though he never even defended the title or unified it with another sanctioning body. The same thing goes for the lightweight division because Juan Manuel Marquez actually won a vacant "super" title which is technically impossible to do going by their rules because you either have to be promoted to "super" champion after already having won a WBA title, or you have to unify the title with another sanctioning body and Marquez did neither but I've come to expect anything from the putrid sanctioning bodies.





According to the WBA's website, they got the idea for "super" champions from Lennox Lewis, most likely because they stripped him of their title when he chose to fight someone else instead of their mandatory challenger.