diff --git a/astroquery/simbad/deprecated_core.py b/astroquery/simbad/deprecated_core.py
index 11ceca11c8..96a2a4ad67 100644
--- a/astroquery/simbad/deprecated_core.py
+++ b/astroquery/simbad/deprecated_core.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from astropy.table import Table
 import astropy.io.votable as votable
 
-from astroquery.query import BaseQuery, BaseVOQuery
+from astroquery.query import BaseQuery
 from astroquery.utils import commons, async_to_sync
 from astroquery.exceptions import TableParseError, LargeQueryWarning, BlankResponseWarning
 
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ def _request(self, *args, **kwargs):
 
 
 @async_to_sync
-class DeprecatedSimbadClass(BaseVOQuery, DeprecatedSimbadBaseQuery):
+class DeprecatedSimbadClass(DeprecatedSimbadBaseQuery):
     """
     The class for querying the Simbad web service.