Comments Thread For: WBC Prez Clarifies Position on Banning Fathers as Trainers

[alexnation]

I refuse to see Papachenko go. He is the best trainer out there

[Madison Boxing]

This guy is full of ****

[New England]

this is probably for publicity

sanctioning bodies should be rounded up and given cement slippers.

[New England]

I refuse to see Papachenko go. He is the best trainer out there

and the last longtime p4p champion, floyd mayweather or whatever his name was, he was trained by some dude named roger and that other guy, what was his name... flynn senior maybe?

ahh, f#ck it. all i know is that the WBC knows best.

[Jim Tom]

Floyd Mayweather Sr? whos he trained other than his son?

His son is the best ever and that settles it. Chad Dawson was also very good under him and Oscar Deal Hoya.

[AdonisCreed]

Well that argument is offset by the fact that the father won't let their son take unnecessary punishment if they see the fight reaching a point of no hope. And THEN when you add the fact that it's also the refs and the doctors job to protect the fighters as well that makes this rule even more ******. Keep it the same, if they want to change anything in boxing it should be the ranking system or the fact that different networks hinder big fights from happening. I mean in the NBA, NFL and Premier League teams aren't allowed to pick and choose who they play in the championship. Find a way to make ducking obsolete.

[rudy]

In early September WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman said that the sanctioning body was conducting an ongoing pilot program, doing interviews and gathering data - following a proposal made during the WBC's Miami convention, regarding parents in the corner of a fighter as chief seconds.
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Funny that How comes Jose should have banned becoming President, the fat git has never ever fought and wants talk like an expert

[anonymous2.0]

Our point is to make a long term resolution because some of the tragedies that have happened in the ring - most of them have happened with the father in the corner," Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com.

I'd like to know what tragedies Sulaiman is referring to.

[Califire209]

I believe the opposite,, A father in a Fighter's corner will throw in the towel when they feel their son is in trouble more so than a trainer that is not a Father

[chrisJS]

There’s been excellent father son teams that have ended up with the son in the hall of fame with his faculties intact and they all stayed together - the Jofre’s, the Trinidad’s, the Calzaghe’s, The Lomachenko’s are doing great. If anything it’s trending up more than ever. The only one of those to really take a “beating” was Tito against Hopkins and that was more of a schooling and his dad stopped it too.

WBC are garbage.