Let's hope Saturday night is alright for fighting and the state of California comes to its senses soon.
Not only problems with Miguel Cotto and his WBO 147 title but the World Boxing Council has officially pulled its sanction of the vacant WBC 140 title from the Showtime Network card Saturday night.
An emergency conference call has been set for later Friday afternoon.
The fight between American Devon Alexander and Brit Junior Witter has been given its blessing by the California State Athletic Commission.
However the officials involved conflict with WBC rules and regulations. The referee is American Lou Moret. But two of the judges are American Jerry Cantu of California and Glenn Trowbridge of Nevada. The third official, Benjamin Rendon, is from Mexico.
The WBC wants one of the two American judges replaced with a foreigner.
The commission, the WBC and the promoters will hopefully come to a conclusion in the conference call.
If the fight is not for the WBC title, Showtime could lower the amount it pays the fighters considerably or even pull the fight off the air. It is part of a Showtime doubleheader and the second fight is not affected. It is between Timothy Bradley and Nate Campbell.
So is the fight going to be for the WBC or not?