Jose Sulaiman has died

[Kirkland Laing]

Every major sport in America has a long history of no regulation and massive corruption in the early days of the sport -- baseball, American football and so on. Boxing is still unregulated. It would be more difficult to regulate than other sports but not impossible. It's managed to avoid any kind of major enforcement by government because boxing has dropped in popularity and isn't worth the effort by politicians so corrupt motherfuckers like the WBC can continue to function unimpeded.

And look at the muthafukkas running them sports and calling the shots now. They get paid. Like fat rats. Bud Selig, Baseballs Commissioner took home 25 million in 2013. Roger Goodell, Footballs Commissioner 29 million. David Stern the Basketball Commissioner 22 million. Hockeys commissioner Gary Bettman made 9 million. Even Golfs muthafukkin commissioner was able to take 6 million home. But the muthafukka in boxing have to do it for free, right?

Are you seriously trying to claim that professional boxing is run as well as the NFL? So this year there's going to be silver, diamond, interim, regula, super and emeritus Superbowl champions?

If you turn the NFL over the course of fifty years from semi-pro nickel and dime outfits into a ten billion a year business then you as a regulator can expect to be rewarded for that. There's no problem paying a chief executive a salary commensurate with the job. The NFL chief is taking home less than 0.3% of NFL revenue. You can make a case that CEO pay in general is far too high and I'd agree with you but they're being paid what their employers are prepared to pay.

But that's a publicly declared expense, it's not somebody gouging the market or racketeering. Now let's say over the same fifty year period you've presided over boxing being one of the biggest if not the biggest spport in America to being a niche sport that the general public are largely unaware of. One of your top regulators has been indicted and convicted on thirty teo counts of racketeering and taking bribes (IBF). All other regulators are shielded from similar indictments by having their headquarters offshore but it looks to everyone that they're exactly the same kind of racketeering outfits as the IBF is. How much should the head regulators of professional boxing be paid?

Maybe the boxing sanctioning bodies need total reform, not to mention lots more prison sentences handed out before we start deciding whether any of these guys should ever be able to earn a living from boxing again, never mind setting their salary levels.