As you all know, Rafael Marquez won the newly made up WBC Silver belt after beating Israel Vazquez. In order to fight for the belt, Sillyman attempted to extort thousands of dollars from both fighters. Marquez went along with the extortion. Vazquez declined being that he's at the end of his career and wanted to keep as much money as he could. After Sillyman failed to shakedown Vazquez, he sent a nasty letter to him and demanded that Vazquez return the Champion Emeritus belt that they gave him recently. Here is the letter; "I would never believe that you, much less Israel, would take such an action stepping shamelessly on the organization and the person that have placed every step of the ladder in the whole career of Israel Vazquez, including his election as Emeritus WBC World Champion, after his surgery, when no one was sure that he would come back to boxing, [a] crown to which very few and selected champions have ever been appointed to. "At the 78 years of my life, to accept something so cynical, disrespectful and unfair for the WBC and myself -- as your decision is, without a doubt -- is just leading me to doubt if my nonprofit 66 years [of] life in boxing has been worth it. Yours Mr. Espinoza, is a shameless and inhuman action, as there is not one single minute of my knowing you and Israel that I have not offered you my unlimited and full support, and your action has been so morally hurting to me that I cannot keep it to myself, as I have always done in the past. "I kindly ask you to please return to the WBC the Emeritus Championship belt, which was presented to Israel with your presence in a special press ceremony in Mexico City. This is an experience that I will never forget for the rest of my period in life." Here's the link to the full blog this came from; http://espn.go.com/sports/boxing/blog/_/name/rafael_dan/id/5223721/sulaiman-wbc-now-sticking-vazquez
Wow.. that is so ****ed up. How an organization that conducts itself such as this has any foothold whatsoever over professional sport is totally outlandish.
It is now clear that out of the 4 major sanctioning bodies the WBC has to be worst. All 4 were already terrible to start with. First it was the Diamond Belt, then the Silver Belt, then threatening to strip Devon Alexander the WBC belt because he was interested in fighting Bradley, and now this ****. **** Sulaiman.
Disgusting. No honor whatsoever. I used to admire the man because I thought he really was a good person especially when in came to Mexican boxing. I wonder if for a moment he's ever imagined getting cut up for a moment like Vasquez was and appreciate the sacrifice he does for our entertainment. He can keep his filthy trinket of a belt it does no good to try and confuse the fans who the real champions are because we know who they are and I'm glad Israel won't pay him a cent. He needs that money for surgery and to live and enjoy his life.