Responding to a tweet by Gervonta Davis:
WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman: It has come to our attention that our organization is under attack claiming that the WBC is racist and bias. These irresponsible accusations derived from the Gervonta Davis vs Leo Santa Cruz fight. For the record, The WBC has not published in any of our platforms a single post regarding Gervonta Davies or the fight other than a repost of an exemplary publication by Gervonta himself, which is the following:
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The WBC does not have spokesmen, the only authorized person to speak on behalf of the organization is the WBC President, Mauricio Sulaiman.
The WBC tirelessly fought against apartheid for 18 years. The WBC has led many activations against racism, abuse of power and discrimination. Just to name a few of our active social responsibility worldwide campaigns.
The WBC stands strong for unity, inclusion, respect and brotherhood. We regret the irresponsible and false accusations and invite everyone to verify the facts.
Maybe not racist but definitely a lot of favoritism…
Yes, sir! Can’t agree more!
We all know the WBC are a bunch of clowns. They have a history of changing rules to allow Mexican fighters to take Clen, gifted franchise championships so that a dangerous mandatory don’t get their fair shot, etc. This is the reason Lopez and Haney are arguing about undisputed… The WBC title. Im guessing soon they will be boycotted and squeezed out eventually.
If enough quality fighters ignore these corrupt organizations they might be able to put them out of business.
Michael St. John that’s what I say. They are only Alice because they get sanctioning fees. No sanctioning fees and the business dies.
the only time I would think this really happened was from 2004-2008, when Glenn Johnson defeated Antonio Tarver for a real light heavyweight title, lost it to Tarver, who lost to Hopkins, who lost to Calzaghe. then Calzaghe retired. I think the problem also is that too many of there promoters and managers have too many ties to these groups.
Also you need some groups to have ratings. I think while there were problems before as there are problems with FIFA, it was not so bad until the IBF came into being. that third group was really not needed. Boxing did alright with just WBA and WBC. Look up perhaps why the WBC came into existence in the early 60’s.
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Yup, makes sense to me!
So they congratulate the loser but not the winner?
The loser being Mexican and the winner being Afro American. Something suspect going on there.
Why are sanctioning bodies needed. Simply plug fighters information into a computer and let them create the rankings and schedules. The crooks will need new rackets.
Some may deny racism but suppose it is?
Not everything is racism.
When it comes to racism allegations, I require a high standard of substantiated proof because reputations, economic standards and/or lives are at stake. Substantiated proof such as:
1) Direct admission of guilt.
2) Verifiable video evidence.
3) Verifiable audio evidence.
4) Verifiable photographic evidence. and/OR
5) A verifiable pattern of practice/behavior that consistently causes a disparate impact to an individual(s), a group(s) and/or an entity(ies).
This “card game” can get subjected to flagrant use, so I will see if the allegation further develops or subsides to zero value.
E-Man, the good racist, and there are a lot of them out there, use all of the resources in their power to make sure that those things you mentioned don’t occur when they are practicing racism. Some racism is overt and some is covert, it serves the same purpose; to undermine a group of people thought to be inferior socially, psychologically, economically, and politically. One must have power to be a racist. Its run like a well oiled machine and has a proven track record of being quite successful. Your always going to have outliers that use the race card, but way more have been victims, facts!
From what I gather, someone associated with the WBC made a (since removed) comment on their personal Twitter account about Tank’s gloves. Davis responded by saying the WBC are clowns. Trying to spin this a “racism” issue seems rather bizarre.
The word here likely is more like “favoritism”. I do see the point.
WBC is has recently since Mauricio Sulaiman has taken over from his father has not only shown favoritism but also distain towards Black fighters. He has done that over and over and the pattern only continues with woman who posted the Davis glove gate tweet who is highly respected person in the WBC. Black fighters should boycott the WBC and not pay the sanctioning fees associated and denounce the organization. Yes he is racist by simply applying favoritism over professionalism and seemingly taking aim at one group in particular. Wilder, Charlos, Davis, mandatories that are black, Franchise belt hypocrisy, and so on and so on. BS organization as of now under current leadership.
There is absolutely racism, discrimination and favortism in society. The problem is ppl like Davis, Trump, etc use it to benefit them in personal gain issues. Sort of like women who use legitimate domestic violence or concerns of rape of women, to advance their own personal agendas. It casts doubt on the majority of legit cases. Davis’ accusations are baseless, and the the WBC merely posted a humble and honorable Santa Cruz congratulating Davis for his victory. Where is the bias? Racism? He is a young guy with no understanding of boxing history, or what racism really is. He is a product of the social media/fb,tik tok culture where tantrums and misinformation is the norm. Good fighter, but too much hip hop culture too really be accepted into mainstream culture. That is the real issue here, not a sanctioning organization. What he doesnt know is that is decades ago, Ali, Tyson, Leonard, Hearns, and even Mayweather all been accused of receiving favorable treatment by the WBC, and they are all Black.Mic drop. By the way I am a Black guy.
Not racist, but surely clowns.
I don’t see any clear cases of racism. A far better case can be made for corruption and favouritism. When you have that happening on a frequent basis, it will create situations in which those being short-changed will be one race or another. Charging racism at those moments doesn’t actually get at the actual root of the problem.