I just read this on Dan Rafeal's blog. Even the promoters know the WBC is a joke.
"It's a joke. I know it's a joke, you know it's a joke, the fans know it's a joke," Arum told me the other day.
So I asked him why he would allow it to be part of his promotion at all.
"Hey, it doesn't cost me anything," he said, although he acknowledged it would actually cost him "a few thousand dollars."
"I'm not promoting the silver belt," Arum continued. "I'm promoting Chavez and Duddy. You don't hear me announcing the silver belt nonsense from the rafters do you? It doesn't bother me, but I'm not a phony that I'm going to promote it like it means something. That's the difference. I'm not using it as part of the promotion because I don't believe in it. I don't even know what the f--- it is."
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