Mexico City. From the office of WBC President José Sulaiman:
WBC President José Sulaiman said today, “On behalf of all of the members of the WBC and myself, I would like to express our sincere sympathy and condolences to our dear friend and distinguished promoter, Gary Shaw, for the passing away of his father.”
PURSE OFFER RESULTS
Bullit Knockout Promotions of Poland has won the rights to promote the vacant WBC cruiserweight world championship fight between Krzysztof Wlodarczyk of Poland and Giacobbe Fragomeni of Italy with a purse offer of $616,000 (U.S. dollars). OPI 2000 Promotions of Italy offered $477,717.00
Arena Box-Promotion of Germany has won the rights to promote the WBC interim welterweight world championship fight between Luis Collazo of the U.S.A. and Selcuk Aydin of Turkey with a bid of $210,000 (U.S. dollars). Don King Productions offered $201,000.