By Miguel Rivera

A few days ago, WBA President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza was very willing to state on the record that he disagreed with the way the World Boxing Council handled this week's controversial situation with Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto.

The organization derecognized Cotto as the middleweight champion earlier this week, after both sides were unable to reach a deal on the sanctioning fee for Saturday's fight with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

The WBC has recently made some questionable moves by selecting fighters who were champions of other organizations - and making them mandatory challengers.

In a move that has never been done in the past, the WBC sanctioned a "unification" between their interim-champion Marco Antonio Rubio and WBA/IBO champion Gennady Golovkin.

Golovkin, who KO'd Rubio and then captured the IBF title in October, is a three belt champion and sits as the mandatory of the WBC.

Mendoza says the WBC made a big mistake by getting involved in the step-aside negotiations between Cotto and Golovkin.

Cotto became furious after having to pay Golovkin $800,000 just to step-aside and then the WBC wanted an additional $300,000 to sanction the fight. Cotto was only willing to pay Golovkin his fee and an additional $125,000. Neither side budged from their positions.

"I think we are going to be seeing more big name boxers making these decisions. My intention is not to criticize what the Council did or did not, but the decision was a little off. I do not agree with the decision that was made. They should have found a solution, perhaps after the fight. Cotto for me is a serious person who has nothing to hide. But I also wonder what and who was involved in the step aside agreement. I think that the WBC did not handle it well and that is my feeling and I will let [Maurcio Sulaiman] know at our next meeting," Mendoza told ESPN Deportes.

"To me all of this seems a bit unethical, and I know Miguel respected world titles. As sanctioning bodies, we can not get into private agreements. Doing so will detract the public."

Sulaiman was not very happy the comments that were made. He explaining his willingness to open the WBC's books for review and even challenged the WBA to participate in a public debate.

"We have open and transparent books. The costs are very clear that we use. Every penny goes straight to boxing in one way or another. We are truly a global organization," Sulaiman told El Vocero.

"The penalty that was made was ​​that comment [from the WBA]. It seems that they have hidden details and I invite them to a public hearing to clarify this. If they are acting this way, it is a terrible thing. But they need to evaluate their organization and not the Council."

"They have four or five options in each division [to become a world champion]. Anyone can be a champion of the WBA because there are too many [belts]. What we are doing is to return the order to boxing. There is a lack of regulations and currently it's where everyone is does whatever they want. And this is the way to remove that anarchy and abuse of boxing."

"They have temporary, recess, regular champion, super champions. They have all kinds of options, and it is very comfortable for them see how the WBC handles things with respect and they feel threatened when what they do is discovered."