Comments Thread For: WBO President is Critical of Plan For Pros in Olympics

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The president of the World Boxing Organization has joined a growing number of the world professional boxing organizations and outstanding promoters and criticized the plan of the International Amateur Boxing Association or AIBA headed by its president Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu to include select pro boxers in the Olympic Games beginning in Brazil in 2016.

Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel, in answer to a query from this columnist on the AIBA plan noted that many of the greatest WBO Champions were Olympic Boxers and they benefited greatly from their Olympic experiences.

Valcarcel said “Professional Boxing has had a great resurgence of popularity over the last 25 years, with countless new venues worldwide where Professional Boxing Championships are contested and numerous new media outlets competing for Boxing’s ever increasing television audience. During this same period AIBA has presided over a decline in popularity and fairness of amateur boxing.”


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**WHAT IF** We make a new Olympic event for Pro Boxing?

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What if…. All the major governing bodies, WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, and even the IBO will have special tournament in every 4 years coincide with the Olympic competition to come up with just one champion in every division, of which the Olympic governing bodies will recognize this as the Olympic boxing champions? And the Olympic boxing amateurs should be phased-out.