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The WBC's Board of Governors unanimously agree that the election of Mauricio Sulaiman, as the World Boxing Council President, is the best option to continue the projects started by his late father Jose Sulaiman. “Mauricio is the person who has more aptitudes of all of us. He’s the only one who knows everything about the WBC. He lives in Mexico and learned a lot from his father. It doesn’t matter that he is son of Don Jose, we chose him because of his ideas and heart” Rex Walker said.
Brooklyn Brawl invades Millennium Theater on Thursday, February 27th with a vengeance and will feature competitive cross roads title fights On Thursday night, February 27th Dmitry Salita's Star of David Promotions will present another edition of the popular Brooklyn Brawl series at the Millennium Theater in Brooklyn. In the main event, popular Steve Bujaj (10-0, 7 KO's) of New York takes on upset minded prospect Elvin Sanchez (6-2-1, 5 KO's) of Paterson, NJ in a New York State Cruiserweight title bout scheduled for 8 rounds with bragging rights on the line.
Target practice for Fidel Maldonado, who outlanded late sub John Nater 48-9 in power shots in last two rounds
Marcos "Flaco" Ahumada (14-1, 10KOs) and Alejandro Valori (14-4, 11KOs) will face each other in a trilogy showdown on February 28th for the Argentina cruiserweight title at the Estadio Ave Fenix in San Luis, Argentina. They were involved in two fire-fights in 2013. The first time around, last March, Ahumada scored two knockdowns in the first round, but he suffered his first career defeat by way of a fourth round TKO. Ahumada got revenge two months later, with his own fourth round TKO. The winner will get the hometown bragging rights and most expect the third meeting to end by knockout.
The World Boxing Council, regarded as the premier professional boxing organization in the world at present, will choose a new president on Tuesday. The new president will succeed the late Don Jose Sulaiman who passed away last month after critical heart surgery at the UCLA Medical Center in California.
In devastating fashion, world-ranked Japanese Shingo Wake (16-4-2, 9 KO's) quickly knocked out Jovylito "Katsumata" Aligarbes of Lanao del Norte, Philippines, to make the successful third defense of his WBC Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) Super Bantamweight Title on Monday (Feb 10) at the famed Korakuen Hall in downtown Tokyo, Japan.
Panama's Edwin Diaz (16-18, 5KOs), who all of a sudden started winning the majority of his fights in 2009, gets a big opportunity on February 20th in Panama City, when he faces Leroy Estrada (11-, 5KOs) for the WBC Latino minimumweight title. In 2012, Diaz lost a twelve round unanimous decision to interim-WBA champion Jesus Silvestre, but then he big when he moved up to junior flyweight last August, and won an eight round majority decision over Dirceu Cabarca in a WBC FECARBOX title clash.
Young Filipino fighter Jovy "Katsumata" Aligarbes is set to challenge world-ranked Japanese Shingo Wake for the WBC Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) Super Bantamweight crown tonight (Feb 10) at the legendary Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, both warriors weighting-in at 122 lbs (55.33 kgs), the limit of the super bantamweight division.
He is ranked No 18 in the world light heavyweight boxing division but Robbie "The Butcher" Berridge is a name New Zealanders haven't embraced just yet. Logan Savory explains how the 29-year-old is preparing, bit by bit, for his assault on world boxing.