WBC must stripped Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Timothy Bradley

Jose Sulaiman, the head of the World Boxing Council sanctioning body, explained his position for maintaining Floyd Mayweather as the WBC’s Welterweight champion despite the fact the American champion/criminal must serve three months in jail for assaulting a woman. “The World Boxing Council has always been in the corner of the boxer,” Sulaiman told Boxing Scene. “The organization was created to protect the fighter.” On the surface, it’s an honorable maneuver by Mr. Sulaiman, to support Mayweather in his time of need. But upon closer scrutiny, there are a lot more details to this matter which make Sulaiman look inconsistent. Earlier this year Suliaman and the WBC stripped Timothy Bradley of his WBC Super Lightweight championship, just six months after he impressively won the belt in a high-profile unification bout with Devon Alexander.* At the time Sulaiman defended the action taken against Bradley: “Timothy has no fight scheduled at this time, consequently there is no information as to when he will resume his boxing career,” Sulaiman said in an issued statement to explain the WBC’s decision to strip Bradley. Interestingly, Bradley was also stripped by the WBC of his Lightweight title in 2009. It seems to be a rather hasty and harsh mistreatment of poor Mr. Bradley, wouldn’t you say? Especially when compared to the leniency Sulaiman is granting Mayweather.* Let me explain. The WBC Welterweight champion has not made a WBC mandatory defense since Andre Berto defeated Luis Collazo by narrow decision in January 2009. *In July of 2009, Selcuk Aydin met Jackson Bonsu in a WBC 147-pound class world title eliminator and he defeated Bonsu by ninth-round knockout. Guess what? Aydin has still not received his earned WBC world title shot in over two full years. Sulaiman and the WBC permitted Andre Berto the luxury of three additional optional defenses during that time period – *Carlos Quintana, Freddy Hernandez and Victor Ortiz – while Selcuk Aydin waited and waited. Oh wait, Aydin did get to fight Jo Jo Dan twice in what were termed WBC Silver Belt title fights.* Now that Mayweather now wears the WBC Welterweight title belt after defeating Ortiz in September, Aydin, a 28-year-old power puncher with a 23-0 (17 KOs) record, should be in line to face Mayweather next. Right? The WBC will always be in the corner of the fighter, right? Especially one that won his official Eliminator OVER two years ago.* But it doesn’t look that way. Sulaiman expressed that he is optimistic Mayweather, who is expected to get out of jail in late March, will finally agree to face Manny Pacquiao in the summer or autumn of 2012.*”(The WBC) should not touch Mayweather’s career or his title, because we want him to fight (Manny) Pacquiao, which is the fight that the world wants and perhaps the last boxing match for both,” Sulaiman told ABS-CBS journalist Ronnie Nathanielsz. Tim Bradley must be wondering, “What about me Jose? Why did you touch my career and title? Why didn’t you show me the same respect you are giving Mayweather?”* If Mayweather attempts to dodge Manny Pacquiao again – as seems to be the hidden agenda of Team Mayweather, it’s going to be very interesting to see how Sulaiman will handle that matter. Stay tuned, because we will be watching this story very closely… Read more: http://www.*************.com/headlines/the-wbcs-inconsistent-in-handling-of-mayweather-and-bradley/#ixzz1hsHc0GYs