Jose Sulaiman: record, next fight and profile →
World Boxing Council president Don Jose Sulaiman says he is waiting to see the video of the WBC light heavyweight title fight in which “Bad” Chad Dawson stopped 46-year-old Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins in the second round, after Hopkins was slammed to the canvas and couldn’t continue because of an injured left shoulder.
WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman believes the world wants newly crowned WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr to face pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and he is ready to lend his good offices to help make the fight happen.
The World Boxing Council, headed by its president Don Jose Sulaiman, has expressed their regret over some of the recent comments that were made by former super flyweight Tomas “Gusano” Rojas following his loss to Thailand’s Suriyan Sor Rungvisai by a unanimous twelve round decision in Srisaket, Thailand last August 19.
World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman is proposing that women world boxing champions must be paid a minimum of thirty thousand dollars per defense, and challengers must get at least eight thousand dollars.
Jose Sulaiman, president of the World Boxing Council, believes 2013 would be the perfect time for the Mexican's dream match between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Both of the undefeated young Mexicans are champions under Sulaiman's organization. In the last few months, the two fighters have won world titles and they are starting to make their names in the sport. Sulaiman wants them to have at least two more years of career seasoning before a match takes place.
Hundreds of friends arrived at Hacienda De Los Morales Restaurant in the Mazarik area of Mexico City from all over the World, to help World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman celebrate the eightieth birthday with his family.
It’s soon going to be time to discover if Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is a chip off the old knock your block off and punch to the liver. Chavez Jr. ( 42-0, 30 KO’s) challenges for the WBC middleweight title, held by Germany’s Sebastian Zbik( 30-0, 10 KO’s), at the Staples Center in LA on June 4th.
WBC President Jose Sulaiman is disputing Jorge Arce's claim of being the first "Mexican boxer to win four world titles in four weight divisions." Arce knocked out Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. last Saturday to win the super bantamweight title. Arce was the WBC/WBO junior flyeweight champion and the WBA/WBC super flyweight champion. Sulaiman says Arce's title at 112-pounds was the WBC interim-belt and the Mexican boxer never held the "full title."
World Boxing Council president is among those who were terribly disappointed over the manner in which former three-time world champion Sugar Shane Mosley refused to stand and fight against pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao in their WBO welterweight title fight in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Not slim, but none….are Shane Mosely’s chances of defeating Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, according to WBC President Jose Sulaiman.