Laila Ali to get Champion Emeritus status

[Purist]

LAILA ALI TO TAKE SABBATICAL FROM BOXING

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Sanctioning body grants champion emeritus status

Press Release: Ryan Wissow, president of the WIBA, has announced that Laila Ali will be honored as its first ever "Champion Emeritus." Laila is taking a sabbatical from the sport to start a family after marrying former NFL star, Curtis Conway. Since capturing the WIBA super middleweight title in 2002, Ali has remained undefeated with a perfect record of (26-0, 23 KO's) and will receive "Champion Emeritus" status, which by definition means, "retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement."


Does anyone care?

[bzkfn]

In a way, I do. Nobody should get a fucking pass to the title by a sanctioning body. It takes the piss out of the rankings.

[donnydarkoIRL]

No offence to Lailia, shes an extremely talented athlete and all and i do think shes done ok getting out of Muhammads considerable shadow, but who has she fought?

Winner of Calzaghe Kessler mayb :P

[superheavyrhun]

I can sympathise with why they have created this "Champion Emeritus" status, because of the one massive difference between men and women in that the women have to put in a lot more effort into starting a family, and to give them time off for maternity seems to make perfect sense to me.

[brucelee]

Without any offense meant, sometimes I am uncomfortable with women fighting in the ring. Their breasts could be affected by punches.Knowing that those parts of their body are more prone to breast cancer. is there any study as to the side effects of boxing to women's health?

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

I can sympathise with why they have created this "Champion Emeritus" status, because of the one massive difference between men and women in that the women have to put in a lot more effort into starting a family, and to give them time off for maternity seems to make perfect sense to me.

Your quite right

[Big_Deuce]

she needs to fight anne wolfe.

[brucelee]

That's pretty ugly man.

[Trainer Monkey]

Ann"I get run from more then the cops after the alarm goes off"Wolfe

[donnydarkoIRL]

Or does Ann Wolfe need to fight her?

[bzkfn]

I can sympathise with why they have created this "Champion Emeritus" status, because of the one massive difference between men and women in that the women have to put in a lot more effort into starting a family, and to give them time off for maternity seems to make perfect sense to me.

Your quite right

Not exactly sure what Vitali did to get it off the WBC.

[Trainer Monkey]

Or does Ann Wolfe need to fight her?

Ali's backed out of 3 seperate contracts with Wolfe

[Mar]

I've seen very few boxers duck and opponet the way she ali does wolfe....she loved beating up on the smaller girls now all of the sudden she wants a family, and to dance, save the earth all kinds of shit as long as it doesn't involve wolfe.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Or does Ann Wolfe need to fight her?

I was kidding

[killersheep]

The Emitrius is bullshit. There is no reason for it, if you retire, you retire the belt period, it should become vacant and
the #1 and #2 ranked boxers behind her should fight for the belt. This is one of the things i hate about boxing. Give her a retirement watch or pen or something if you feel it is necessary, but the title needs to move on.