The worst decision by a sanctioning body

WBO's first sanctioned bout...

 

1. Sanctioning fees

2. The WBA for having 2 Heavyweight "champions" at once

3. The WBC for making the new position of "Emiritus Champion"

4. The WBA for making the "Champion In Recess"

5. The WBA for the "Super Champion" status

6. All Alphabet orgs. for existing

7. The WBC for being in Don King's pocket

8. Interim Champion's

 

You mean the IBF. They do Don Kings bidding!

 

the ibf for not stripping judah after his loss to baldomir

 

When Leon Spinks won the WBA and WBC Heavyweight championships from Muhammad Ali in 1978, the WBC stripped Leon Spinks of his title. Jose Sulaiman said the WBC did so because Spinks was signed for a rematch with Ali instead of fighting a Don King fighter, Ken Norton. Norton then defended the WBC title against another Don King fighter, Larry Holmes, who won the belt.

In 1983, WBC Super Featherweight champion Bobby Chacon was signed to fight the WBC’s mandatory challenger for his title, Cornelius Boza-Edwards. Promoter Don King, however, wanted his fighter, Hector Camacho, to fight for the title. Even though WBC rules said the mandatory challenger should receive a shot at the title, the WBC withdrew its sanction from the fight and then stripped Chacon for refusing to fight Camacho.

Under WBC rules, a fighter is supposed to defend his title against a mandatory challenger at least once a year. For fighters controlled by Don King, this rule is often ignored. Alexis Arguello, and Carlos Zarate, for instance, were allowed to ignore their obligations to their mandatory contenders while WBC champions.

While WBC Super Featherweight champion, Julio César Chávez wanted to fight top contender Roger Mayweather for a promoter other than Don King. The WBC withheld its sanction of the fight until Don King became promoter.

When Mike Tyson lost to James "Buster" Douglas during a WBC and WBA Heavyweight championship defense, Don King convinced the WBC (along with the WBA) to withhold recognition of Douglas as heavyweight champion. King claimed that Tyson had actually won the fight due to knocking down Douglas and the referee giving Douglas a “long count." Referee Octavio Meyran, in a sworn affidavit, claims that King threatened to have the WBC withhold payment of Meyran's hotel bill if Meyran did not support King's protest. Because of intense public pressure, both the WBA and WBC backed down and recognized Douglas as champion.

In 1992, the WBC threatened to strip Evander Holyfield of his title for defending it against Riddick Bowe instead of Razor Ruddock. Holyfield obtained a court order to stop the organization. In a taped deposition for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Holyfield stated that the WBC wanted him to defend his championship against Ruddock because Ruddock was managed by Don King.

During the 1990s, the WBC did not allow its champions to engage in unification bouts with WBO champions. However, in 1993, the Don King promoted Super Middleweight showdown between WBC champion Nigel Benn and WBO champion Chris Eubank was recognized as a title unification fight by the WBC. Ironically, both men fought to a draw and each retained their respective titles.

When Mike Tyson was released from prison in 1995, the WBC installed him as their #1 contender for their Heavyweight championship. Tyson had not fought in four years, but was promoted by Don King.

In 2000, King-promoted Julio César Chávez was the mandatory challenger for Kostya Tszyu's WBC Super Lightweight title. Chávez was the mandatory challenger though he had not fought at Super Lightweight for two years, had recently lost to journeyman boxer Willie Wise, and had not beaten a top contender since losing his first fight to Oscar de la Hoya in 1996.

In 2005, the WBC stripped Javier Castillejo of his Super Welterweight title for fighting Fernando Vargas instead of Don King-promoted Ricardo Mayorga. Mayorga somehow qualified for a shot at the super welterweight title despite the fact that he had never fought at that weight limit and had lost two of his last three fights.

 

No he was told by lawyers to not fight Roy, Steward who was training him at that time didnt have a clue were he was, he(Manny) would show up for stuff and be like..I dont know were he is at, He should have been training and I have seen him in two weeks..Rocco was with his brother at his fight around that some time, I cant remember is it was a week before or after...

 

Co-sign!:good

 

WBA - For allowing John Ruiz an unlimited amount of title shots.