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Jose Sulaiman (wbc) is a cancer to boxing #596
THis is funny. Essentially, Israel Vasquez refused to purchase a "silver" title off of Jose Sulaiman, so the fat little monkey of a man, sent him an angry letter demanding that he return the last wbc title that was given to him last year.
Sulaiman, WBC now sticking it to Vazquez
May, 26, 2010
From Dan Rafael
WBC president for life Jose Sulaiman, the tyrannical one, is at it yet again. Well, not exactly -- because "at it again" would indicate that at some point he actually stopped his wicked ways. But they apparently will never end.
In March, El Presidente threatened to take away the junior welterweight belt held by Devon Alexander for the ghastly crime of -- hold onto your hat -- wanting to fight fellow titleholder Timothy Bradley! For shame! How dare Alexander even think of something so objectionable!
In April, Sulaiman tried to shake down Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley for $45,000 for the symbolic (of nothing) diamond belt. I guess there must have been another payment due to Graciano Rocchigiani. Mayweather and Mosley both refused to fight for the belt and, believe it or not, the sun still came up the next morning, probably to the chagrin of the president for life.
(As an aside, because Manny Pacquiao defeated Miguel Cotto last fall and accepted the diamond belt in the same welterweight division that Mayweather and Mosley fight in, had the winner of their May 1 bout paid for the diamond belt, would he have been the interim diamond belt champion? But I digress.)
This month, Sulaiman turned his ire on Israel Vazquez, the Mexican warrior who has probably spilled a gallon of blood over the years defending the WBC junior featherweight title.
Vazquez, of course, met Rafael Marquez for the fourth time last week in the final chapter of their glorious, all-time rivalry. Their first three classic fights were for the WBC's 122-pound title. The fourth fight, at featherweight, was not a championship bout -- not that it mattered to anybody.
As usual, however, the WBC believes that the boxing world revolves around the WBC and that, naturally, it had to insert itself into the fight in some way. It wanted Marquez and Vazquez to fight for its "silver belt," whatever the hell that is. Originally, the WBC announced that this newly created bizarre little title would replace the interim belts it had been handing out like candy on Halloween. Since Vazquez and Marquez had fought only once apiece at featherweight and had been out of the ring for ages, neither of them really qualified for an interim belt. But a silver belt? They could have that for the right price.
Sulaiman said the WBC voted unanimously to award the belt to the winner. That must be how the president for life keeps getting elected unanimously over and over whenever his term is up, as happens in third-world countries run by dictators.
Anyway, Marquez and promoter Gary Shaw went along with the scam. I have no idea why, but that is certainly their prerogative. If Marquez wants to waste his hard-earned money by paying a sanctioning fee for a worthless title, that's his business.
But it is also the prerogative of Vazquez to decline, and that's what he, manager Frank Espinoza and Golden Boy promoter Richard Schaefer did, having fended off several overtures from Sulaiman.
The president for life didn't like the decision. How dare Vazquez refuse to fight for his pointless/meaningless/expensive/garbage trinket! How dare he refuse to pay up!
Espinoza had declined the invitation to fight for the belt in a letter to the WBC a month before the May 22 fight. The feeling on the Vazquez side was that he was near the end of his career and wanted to keep as much of his career-high payday of $800,000 as possible. There was no need to spend thousands of dollars on a title, especially one that was basically meaningless. In other words, thanks for the offer, but no thanks. Good for Vazquez.
But that wasn't good enough for Sulaiman, who continued to pursue Vazquez. The holier-than-thou president for life couldn't handle the rejection because, after all, the boxing world is supposed to revolve around him and his fiefdom, where no members of his puppet board of governors ever tell him no. (Or maybe there was yet another payment due to Rocchigiani?)
Sulaiman, filled with righteous indignation, wrote a hysterical letter back to Espinoza, blasting them for rejecting the silver belt.
The president for life even had the audacity to demand that Vazquez return his "emeritus" championship belt, which Vazquez had been given during a long layoff while recovering from eye injuries suffered against Marquez during WBC title fights. In reality, Vazquez had been stripped of the real title and tossed aside because he couldn't defend it for an extended period, thereby costing the WBC money. The WBC then gave Vazquez the nonsense "emeritus" title and moved on without him. Until, of course, it could suck a few more bucks out of him for a silver belt.
In part, here is what Sulaiman wrote to Espinoza, and pardon the grammar and run-on sentences, for which I will cut him some slack because English is not his first language:
"I would never believe that you, much less Israel, would take such an action stepping shamelessly on the organization and the person that have placed every step of the ladder in the whole career of Israel Vazquez, including his election as Emeritus WBC World Champion, after his surgery, when no one was sure that he would come back to boxing, [a] crown to which very few and selected champions have ever been appointed to.
"At the 78 years of my life, to accept something so cynical, disrespectful and unfair for the WBC and myself -- as your decision is, without a doubt -- is just leading me to doubt if my nonprofit 66 years [of] life in boxing has been worth it. Yours Mr. Espinoza, is a shameless and inhuman action, as there is not one single minute of my knowing you and Israel that I have not offered you my unlimited and full support, and your action has been so morally hurting to me that I cannot keep it to myself, as I have always done in the past.
"I kindly ask you to please return to the WBC the Emeritus Championship belt, which was presented to Israel with your presence in a special press ceremony in Mexico City. … This is an experience that I will never forget for the rest of my period in life."
I could laugh for a day at that hilarious, sanctimonious crap. The pure lunacy from the president for life is something that I will never forget, either.
Jose Sulaiman and WBC are now sticking it to Israel Vazquez - ESPN
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Originally Posted by MMASUX
When the fuck did that happen? There's a reason the IBF had to recently clean house. To many corrupt muthafukkas were employed by them.
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