[du365]

this is great...even though shane held the WBA title, WBC stooge jose sulaiman is getting NERVOUS that big-time fighters dont consider alphabet belts important enough to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/sulaima ... more-44869
quote]In his weekly “Hook to the Liver” column published in El Universal, WBC President Jose Sulaiman commented on the decision of Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley to not fight for Mosley’s WBA title to avoid paying the sanctioning fees.

“…it was for me a humiliation and a threat to all world boxing institutions, which are who open the doors to all boxers from their very beginning, bringing them into the world ratings, to give boxers the opportunities to win world titles that lead them to fame and glory,” said Sulaiman. “They enjoy it for a while to fall next into the paws of the giant TV corporations and some promoters, once that boxers have become the top of the cream, taking away the merits and kicking in the behinds of the world sanctioning bodies, once they don’t need them any more, while those organizations continue working, through the good and the bad, to bring more boxers to the top, to see again the same lesson be repeated once and again.

“If this practice is not remedied, and as they can not produce the elite boxers that are born and formed by the modest boxing promoters and the local boxing commissions, boxing will be led to extinction as a great competitive sport in no more than 25 to 50 years.

“Oscar de la Hoya, the promoter, as well as the WBC’s superheroes, Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley, built their greatness on the opportunities that the WBC, and less frequently, other colleague organizations gave them, while HBO reached the top of boxing TV, showing the best fights in half a century of the WBC.

“These three great boxers continue being my personal heroes and absolutely the pride of the WBC, as well as keeping my respects for HBO. But how sad and unfair it is that they have forgotten the institutions that opened their doors and let them to conquer glory and the pride of the boxing fans of the world. As the fight Mayweather-Mosley is going to be exclusively for the money and only to see who is going to win over the other, with no other interest, and as a boxing fan, I have decided to stay home to watch it on the Mexican Televisa, which does recognize and respect always those which have been an important part to take boxers to the heights.”[/quote]

[Snoop]

Whatever. WBC can go suck a dick, especially when they keep coming out with all these pointless belts, like their "diamond" championship.

[Byrd Man]

that motherfucker needs to learn some grammar. All those run on sentences made me dizzy and I lost focus on what the hell he was saying.

[STEVENSKI]

He actually does have a point about fighters using the alphabets to climb the ladder & once at the top dropping them. Not that I am a fan of the alphabets mind you.

[D-MARV]

I perosnally think this is a step in the right direction... This alphabet people can get pretty damn pathetic at times. What they did to Tim Bradley was terrible. Threatening to strip him of his title after he just won it??? The mandatory shit can get pretty messed up at times. Bottomline is that these alphabet people are robbing fighters left and right. If the fighter has no desire to fight for their titles then who gives a fuck?

[Snoop]

He actually does have a point about fighters using the alphabets to climb the ladder & once at the top dropping them. Not that I am a fan of the alphabets mind you.

He holds a valid point that there needs to be a ranking system in the sport of boxing, but it's just that the sanctioning bodies, the WBC especially, have gotten out of hand with all the inconsequential belts they've flooded the sport with. Too many "championships" actually hurt boxing more than it helps and I find it annoying that he's crying when it doesn't go his way in this one instance, but doesn't seem to give a shit about the sport of boxing when it works in his favor. Fuck people like that.

[Jack 1000]

that motherfucker needs to learn some grammar. All those run on sentences made me dizzy and I lost focus on what the hell he was saying.

His son Mauricio, writes even worse! But I still have found him to be willing to write back most of the time I think I even asked this of the WBC at one time or read it somewhere, "Why do you have to have these sanctioning fees?" And Jose said that the representatives don't get any salaries, (you know, working for the "betterment of boxing." so they use them to pay the bills needed to stay in business.) So I guess their would not be any business if there weren't sanctioning fees. I think if that were true, they would still find some way to make up the lost revenue.

I have to agree with just about everyone. There's too many belts. And even though their are no sanctioning fees with the new "Diamond" belts Champion Emeritus Belts (meaning champion in recess.) the WBA's "Super Champion" bullshit, which was an idea from Lennox Lewis! Go figure! Lennox wanted a system where unified champs wouldn't have to defend their belts so much, and that's why the WBA created a minimum of 18-27 months between title defenses if one of their champions also held a WBO, WBC, or IBF title in the same weight class.

The problem is just too widespread. The IBF has the least amount of non-legit title belts, but for personal reasons I have always found them to be the most corrupt. I had issues with Bob Lee going all the way back to Eugenia William's scoring in Holyfield-Lewis I. I blasted her, questioning her competence and lack of integrity and he wrote back attacking and trying to discredit me and I have chosen to be the most cynical of the IBF since than. But the others, WBC, WBA, and WBO have always been cool with me and I have been cool with them. I think that the IBF sucks the worst because they have vacancies in their rankings for no reason and they will strip fighters the most for unification, rather than trying to encourage it. The WBA sort of used to be like that, but not so much anymore. The IBF will almost always force champions to fight #1 mandatories who are undeserving and in my view, they were always the most easily intimidated by Don King.

The federations have to work on reducing the belts and solving the sanctioning fee issue. But I DO NOT think that a magazine belt (RING) is the answer, at all.

Jack

[JD]

I have the utmost respect for for the decision to tell the WBA that they can keep their trinket.

[Box in Hand]

The only reason he's upset is because they are losing money. He's masking his greed with all of that other bullshit he's talking. Money is the motivating factor. I used to think the Ring Magazine belt was the last legitimate belt but Goldie Locks bought it and diluted that shit. Fuck them belts.

[Mean Mister Must...]

The only reason he's upset is because they are losing money. He's masking his greed with all of that other bullshit he's talking. Money is the motivating factor. I used to think the Ring Magazine belt was the last legitimate belt but Goldie Locks bought it and diluted that shit. Fuck them belts.

I agree with your post Box, except for the part about The Ring. I don't like the fact that DLH owns it but so far I have not seen any of the ratings favor his fighters.