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This international competition will seek out new sports idols
Jeju (South Korea) - With its champions retired or close to hanging up his gloves, the World Boxing Council (WBC) today approved the creation of a World Cup to look for new idols of the sport for years to come.
"The WBC has always been a reformer," said its president Jose Sulaiman on the decision to host the World Cup that, in principle opposed to the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA).
Sulaiman told Efe that have yet to approve the details and format of the Cup, but already defined the objective of developing fighters in the future can take the place of the idols that have already left or are about to leave.
Champions like Oscar De La Hoya, Julio César Chávez, Félix 'Tito' Trinidad and Erik Morales, who gave luster to boxing in the last decade are already retired and others who have world titles are not yet his fame and athletic success.
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To search for the successors, the WBC has created the World Cup, with national tournaments such as already exist in countries like Mexico, where it is called "Golden Gloves" and in Venezuela, with the name "Street Tournament.
According to early drafts of the tournament, each country will have its own heat to end by continent of boxers who will participate in fighting six and eight rounds.
Most professional boxers reach its fulfillment in these types of battles before being considered stellar features, while it matures, sports leadership in their respective countries.
Sulaiman said the WBC tournament is not intended to stand in the road and at work that corresponds to the AIBA, but said provisions to the collaboration or confrontation so to meet its target to train new champions.
Sulaiman felt that amateur boxing is not for a quality sport and criticized its qualifying format of the fighting that developed in their tournaments.
"We're going to force throw out this devilish machine computer; want boxers, not runners," declared the leader of the CMB in holding that both amateur and professional styles are not compatible.
The WBC president said the agency will not touch the boxers to develop under the AIBA format but will be willing to yield to the participants of the World Cup if required by their Olympic teams.
"If (AIBA) want our fighters to the Olympics, below are free", added the head of the World Council.
The WBC Convention in Jeju, South Korea, will end on Friday after the agency analyze its agenda includes adoption of classifications and the establishment of mandatory defenses for their champions.
The WBC is currently 17 champions in as many categories and a total of 51 boxers classified Latin American countries.
In its Convention in Jeju, the CMB has classified 35 fighters Mexicans, three Colombians, two Cubans, two Puerto Ricans, two Nicaraguans, two Spanish and one Panamanian.
Jeju (South Korea) - With its champions retired or close to hanging up his gloves, the World Boxing Council (WBC) today approved the creation of a World Cup to look for new idols of the sport for years to come.
"The WBC has always been a reformer," said its president Jose Sulaiman on the decision to host the World Cup that, in principle opposed to the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA).
Sulaiman told Efe that have yet to approve the details and format of the Cup, but already defined the objective of developing fighters in the future can take the place of the idols that have already left or are about to leave.
Champions like Oscar De La Hoya, Julio César Chávez, Félix 'Tito' Trinidad and Erik Morales, who gave luster to boxing in the last decade are already retired and others who have world titles are not yet his fame and athletic success.
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To search for the successors, the WBC has created the World Cup, with national tournaments such as already exist in countries like Mexico, where it is called "Golden Gloves" and in Venezuela, with the name "Street Tournament.
According to early drafts of the tournament, each country will have its own heat to end by continent of boxers who will participate in fighting six and eight rounds.
Most professional boxers reach its fulfillment in these types of battles before being considered stellar features, while it matures, sports leadership in their respective countries.
Sulaiman said the WBC tournament is not intended to stand in the road and at work that corresponds to the AIBA, but said provisions to the collaboration or confrontation so to meet its target to train new champions.
Sulaiman felt that amateur boxing is not for a quality sport and criticized its qualifying format of the fighting that developed in their tournaments.
"We're going to force throw out this devilish machine computer; want boxers, not runners," declared the leader of the CMB in holding that both amateur and professional styles are not compatible.
The WBC president said the agency will not touch the boxers to develop under the AIBA format but will be willing to yield to the participants of the World Cup if required by their Olympic teams.
"If (AIBA) want our fighters to the Olympics, below are free", added the head of the World Council.
The WBC Convention in Jeju, South Korea, will end on Friday after the agency analyze its agenda includes adoption of classifications and the establishment of mandatory defenses for their champions.
The WBC is currently 17 champions in as many categories and a total of 51 boxers classified Latin American countries.
In its Convention in Jeju, the CMB has classified 35 fighters Mexicans, three Colombians, two Cubans, two Puerto Ricans, two Nicaraguans, two Spanish and one Panamanian.