“Fighting Words” – Questioning the WBC over Corrales-Castillo 3

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Within hours after Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo weighed in for the intended rubber match of their trilogy, both fighters were rehydrating.

But less than 24 hours after the much-anticipated bout was called off, a sanctioning body found a different use for water, as the World Boxing Council began an attempt to wash its hands of Jose Luis Castillo.

And why not? Sanctioning bodies will do almost anything, seemingly. They’ll take hard-earned money from the fighters, sanctioning fees for numerous variations of their original world titles. They’ll take credit for doing good deeds and supervising great fights. But they won’t take blame.

Blame is something that must go around following the latest controversy in the Corrales-Castillo drama, and not just for Castillo's camp and Castillo himself, who missed the lightweight limit by 4.5 pounds, misled promoter Bob Arum and miscalculated the backlash that would come from a majority of the boxing world.

No, the WBC is in the crosshairs, too, for their prior assurances that Castillo’s weight situation was under control while under their supervision, and for their current avoidance of the buck stopping where it should: at the people who promised said control and supervision. [details]

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people should of known arum and nevada state athleticc commison cculs have saved the fight

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You nailed it again David.

While Castillo's failing to make weight is itself an issue, the thing that got the fans' ire is the perceived crass deception.

And now Sulaiman and cohorts heap additional insult on the raw wounds of the earlier insult and injury by making claims that are made facetious at best by the failure to substantiate them with any form of evidence.

If the advice to the promoter and the commission were sent through email, it does not take an IT wiz to know that it is very easy to produce documentation/evidence of the advice having been sent. If the advice was sent through traditional post, then there should be a receipt of some sort that can be produced as evidence of it having been received by the offices of Arum and the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Customarily and in view of the importance of the advice, it must have been sent via registered mail or equivalent. If it was sent through Fedex, then a receipt from Fedex should be shown.

The absence of such evidence (or ones similar) along with the deliberately misleading WBC bulletins that you cited as having been received by at least two boxing journalists make one lean towards the identical but separately issued statements of Arum and the NSAC, and to recall that if Sulaiman and company are lying, it is not the first time.

If only the state commissions get together and foist a coup d'etat on the Sulaiman leadership, I think support from national commissions in Europe, Asia and the Americas shall showball. God riddance, Senor Sulaiman!

Edit: While they're at it, they should look at the WBA and the IBF too.

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arums a sellout he new