Another example of WBC incompetence/corruption

[TitoFan]

On another note.....

https://www.essentiallysports.com/bo...r-a-wbc-title/

"What Will Happen to Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol After Mauricio Sulaiman’s Decision to Ban Russian Boxers From Competing for a WBC Title?"



Of course.

Wonder what took him so long...

Gee, wait... does this pave the way for Ginger to grab another 175-lb trinket now that both Beterbiev and Bivol will be out of the WBC picture? (fake shock)

Gotta hand it to the W(e) B(low) C(anelo) president, Mexian Mafia head Mauricio Sulaiman.

Since it's painfully obvious Ginger has NO business in the ring with either Bivol OR Beterbiev (who between them hold all the belts)... ol' Suli baby has suddenly developed (months after the conflict began) a sense of civil justice and has decided to remove both Bivol and Beterbiev from their rankings. Making it easy for "you-know-who" to come waltzing in. Well... he might have to beat the crap out of Callum Smith again... but what the hell.

Good shet.

[TIC]

i hope that callum smith confirmed as wbc mandatory doesn't get in the way of a potential artur v dmitry fight

[Spicoli]

They've stumbled upon their money collecting soapbox and apparently declared all Russian boxers who are ranked will be dropped immediately . Not as if this couldn't happen 6 months ago so while 'I get it' I'm not really with it. It's an individual sport like no other and seems misdirected to cast a few dozen careers into the shitter with no regard and directly impacting livelihoods. I can see if a fighter hits the ring spouting propaganda boosting up the invasion..?..yeh fook those guys. But a professional fighter making a living absent of Government sponsorship ?! should be allowed to do so and not penalized. The wbc standing on principle and morality is a bit laughable. Wonder if we did this after 9/11 with Saudi Arabia. It's just an endless slippy slide of guilt by Nationality.

[Master]

Russian and Belarusian boxers will be removed from the WBC rankings and banned from competing for titles under the sanctioning body's authority.

The WBC initially announced it would not sanction any boxing in Russia the day after the country's invasion of Ukraine on February 24 this year.

But at the sanctioning body's convention in Mexico on Tuesday, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced boxers from both Russia and Belarus would be removed from their rankings due to the ongoing conflict.

"All fighters from Russia and Belarus are being removed from the WBC rankings," Sulaiman said.

"The WBC will not sanction any fights in those two countries and no national citizen from those two countries can compete for a WBC championship title.

"I wish to express our deep regret for the athletes, for the promoters, for the members of the boxing industry from Russia and Belarus who will suffer with these consequences of the actions outside the ring.

"The WBC believes in peace, believes in fair play, and believes human dignity."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxi...420d42fdace102

[Spicoli]

Literally rewrites history and arbitrarily overturns the controversial Draw verdict from Azumah Nelson v Jeff Fenech I...which took place 31 years ago . Seemingly out of nowhere and while fans definitely want these bodies to revisit-review "bad" decisions, this is very strange and selective. Not to mention very disrespectful to Nelson and surprised Fenech would go along with it to be honest. And a couple decades late. Surely if the wbc is sincere in this effort we can follow up with some from the last year or two but they won't .

[TIC]

the ibf removed zhilei zhang from their top fifteen to put charles martin in at thirteen at heavyweight

[TitoFan]

Literally rewrites history and arbitrarily overturns the controversial Draw verdict from Azumah Nelson v Jeff Fenech I...which took place 31 years ago . Seemingly out of nowhere and while fans definitely want these bodies to revisit-review "bad" decisions, this is very strange and selective. Not to mention very disrespectful to Nelson and surprised Fenech would go along with it to be honest. And a couple decades late. Surely if the wbc is sincere in this effort we can follow up with some from the last year or two but they won't .

This is a bad joke, right?






















Right??

[Spicoli]

Literally rewrites history and arbitrarily overturns the controversial Draw verdict from Azumah Nelson v Jeff Fenech I...which took place 31 years ago . Seemingly out of nowhere and while fans definitely want these bodies to revisit-review "bad" decisions, this is very strange and selective. Not to mention very disrespectful to Nelson and surprised Fenech would go along with it to be honest. And a couple decades late. Surely if the wbc is sincere in this effort we can follow up with some from the last year or two but they won't .

This is a bad joke, right?






















Right??

Interesting how they and Fenech just completely blow off the matter of the one-way brutal rematch they had. As well as the two fighting a third time 15 years later. Fact they're using it to coronate "new" 4 time champs etc is a pretty bad precedent.