By Mauricio Sulaimán
President of the WBC – Son of José Sulaimán
The WBC believes in choice, which is why we chose to support women’s boxing when no one else did since the late 90s.
The WBC chose to initiate Women’s World Championships back in 2004. We chose to use our entire platform to bring women’s boxing to the level it is today with exciting fights, sold out arenas and worldwide heroes.
The WBC chose to spend money, time, and effort to have continuous medical and scientific research, evaluate and create specific rules for women in boxing.
The WBC chose to support women and not charge a single penny to them in sanction fees.
The WBC chose to organize three World Conventions exclusively for women’s boxing in Cancun, Tijuana, and Manila.
However, the sport itself is not about choice.
Boxing, by its nature, demands safety guidelines, rules, and protection. Rules are not discriminatory, arbitrary nor sexist. Rules are based on science, expertise, fairness, and above all for safety. Our mission has always been and will always be to lower the risk of anyone going into the ring, man or woman, in this combat sport which is not a game.
The WBC has chosen to honor these rules, principles and values and will continue to research Women’s Boxing, support women’s boxing, and protect any women participating in this incredible sport.
We believe in any women to have a choice, whether to compete under the WBC rules or compete under untested waters with much uncertainty and higher risks for their own lives, their opponents’ lives, and the quality of their lives after ring activity.
LONG LIVE WOMEN’S BOXING.
The man is delusional.
Difficult to believe they are not making money from women boxing. Maybe there is a charge for the belts.
What does this Hack have over Fightnews? These governing bodies commit Extortion. Why is it so hard to understand? Get rid of this Clown. Your website loses credibility every week he is aloud to spew his BS.
Fightnews is a free resource and so I think (hope) that he’s paying them for giving him this platform. If he’s not paying them it’s beyond ludicrous.
I’ve wondered the same thing. Does the creep own the place or what? And I thing womens boxing is an abomination and should be outlawed.
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Perhaps the thing that annoys me the most about his columns is that he always adds “son of Jose Sulaiman” like it’s something we’ll respect. His dad was notorious for showing favoritism and bending the rules for his friends. Not something to be bragging about. Make your own name, contribute for positive changes instead of creating stupid weight classes and ranking fighters that don’t deserve to be anywhere near the top ten.
LOL!!! I don’t see any reason to disagree with your statement which is why I believe that Mauricio “son of Jose…” read this article and gave you the thumbs down.
Nonesense and useless defense.
This individual here. You see, that’s why you cannot remotely agree with Mauricio. He will get the idea that we wish to see more and write twice in one week.
What you preach and what you practice are 2 different things.
I wonder if the wealthy Lebanese businessman reads the comments readers leave on his articles here.
He’s not Lebanese.
Didn’t the WBC sanction a fight between Franchón Crews-Dezurn and some man pretending to be a woman? That’s really looking out for women.
This guy spewing his diarrhea all over fightnews. Why does he have a column here again? Maybe he should write a column of how the WBC favors certain fighters, especially Mexican fighters.
From another site:
“World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is standing firm on his organization’s decision to reject the sanctioning of Amanda Serrano’s last defense.
On Tuesday, Serrano revealed that she was vacating her WBC featherweight world title because the sanctioning body has no intention of sanctioning her future fights for 12 three-minute rounds.
The WBC, at the recent convention, made it clear that women’s title fights would remain at 10 two-minute rounds – and the sanctioning body cited medical studies for their position.”
Lmao what hypocrisy. The WBC believes in choice…which is why they don’t respect Amanda’s choice to fight standard 3 minute rounds like men’s boxing does. Nice.
This is clear and obvious virtue signaling. Gotta love how people will say they arent sexist while literally refusing to even entertain equal treatment or standards between the sexes. Those BS deceptive titles and headlines at work.
The WBC should “choose” to make Canelo vs Benavidez fight happen. Benavidez earned it by clearing out the major players of the division.
The WBC should “choose” to lead the way. If you can’t defend your title for an extended period of time you lose your belt.
The WBC should “choose” to support boxing PERIOD by not charging sanctioning fees they can’t justify. Perhaps this is why some fighters are indifferent about holding these titles that use to have value.
Female boxing is just as boring as females basketball. Maybe if they had a cook off after the fight to see who cooks better would be entertaining.