What a self-righteous pompous ass you are. You have no say on anything so get off your make-shift pedestal. The man was a piece of trash, a cancer on the sport. You can't deal with truthful comments, go elsewhere. The only people truly mourning this guy are the ones that bought favors from him to have the WBC in their pocket.
**** it... This guy was Corrupt as FFuuuuuk. He did not give a shiz about boxing. He was a career politician, caring about his own pockets.... Let's not forget. Under his watch Wbc eliminators mean nothing Wbc champion emirtus Wbc interm champion Wbc Diamond belt Ect ect... I hope you guys are just as nice at DonKing or BobArum funeral
Am I wrong for feeling some satisfaction that this thieving ****er is dead and that the only remorse I feel is that he lived as long as he did so that he could spend nearly 40 years robbing our sport and running it into the ground? They had a memorial article on him on fightnews that made me want to puke, listing all of his supposed innovations into the sport (many of which had been proposed or implemented by other people and others which were inacted purely out of greed). Now if only all of the other ABC bodies and their presidents would rot as well...
IMO yes, feeling satisfaction at someone's death because they impacted a sport you like is wrong. But I do know what you mean. And this is one of the few places you could say it.
Too bad his father didn't stain the sheets instead of society. He was one load which should have hit his mother's face. You're remembering him far too fondly. He's the specific reason I became a former fan of boxing.
It is boxing not life. I did not agree with many things he did boxing wise, but he hardly deserved to die for it. Let us get a bit perceptive...
I dont know, to me hes no different than a south american dictator who runs his country into the ground, ruining lives along the way for his own personal greed and gain. IMO people like that dont deserve to breath our air. Why should Sulemaine be any different. He always sat there, getting fatter, more smug, and more brazen while he robbed fighters blind in every way he could conceive, held them back, ruined their careers, etc.
Perceptive... South American Dictators; indeed all Dictators; indeed many "World Leaders" are ultimately responsible for the horrible deaths of thousands, if not millions of 'their' people. Jose played a part in ruining a sport for many of us, it really is not the same thing.
Given the opportunity to take over a nation, he would NOT have been any different. He was a despotic "President for Life" type creature, and deserves to be remembered that way.
Yeah I dont agree. That sport was populated by peoples whose lives he literally ruined. He did it knowingly. He robbed people both literally and by holding them back in the sport, preventing them from reaching the heights they could. I really dont see how thats any different from a dictator who keeps his people starving while he steals their money. Some dictators arent violent thugs yet at the same time I have no doubt that one could, with very little research, tie injuries etc suffered by fighters directly to decisions Sulemain made for personal gain whether by mismatches being allowed, looking the other way at weigh ins, etc. No, I think the guy was the scum of the earth.
If you cannot see the difference between someone helping to corrupt a sport and someone sponsoring the torture and death of people, well I hope you are just playing around with me.
Again, not all dictators sponsor torture and death, and Sulemaine had a very really detrimental effect on peoples lives. He didnt just ruin a sport. His actions werent confined to a vacuum in which only the sport was effected. If you care about the sport then by association (at least) you care about the participants and Sulemaine literally ruined lives. Directly and indirectly. I think the guys was worse than human garbage. He was a cancer and I for one am glad hes gone. Its just a shame that his effect on the sport will likely take as long to come back from (if it ever does) as his involvement, which was over 40 years. I find it odd that a lot of people would have gleefully said "he needs to be taken out and shot" for his actions while he was alive but now that hes died at 82 after decades of living high off the hog on the sweat blood and tears of others its taboo to say anything bad about him...
That about sums up my feelings as well. How many boxers lives did he and his cronies ruin? Boxing would be better, if these alphabet orginizations are removed.
