Did you read the same article I did?sucracristo wrote:read the article and that is not what it says, even implicitly.
sulaiman said explicitly that it is completely up to the promoters.
i'm sure that is what GB wants, and maybe that is what mauricio is repeating.
it is also what the announcers were saying immediately after the fight, that
they would both be fighting other people. i laughed a little when they said they
weren't worried about lawsuits in that article, considering that they had to declare
bankruptcy and wouldn't even exist anymore if it weren't for the grace of
roccigiani. the schedule for negotiations and purse bids is in the contracts,
and was officially announced and repeated many times since. perhaps GGG
will be willing to wait a little longer if he gets paid and gets a shot at the wbo in
the interim with an iron clad agreement canelo will fight him in the fall, with
money set aside to cover GGG if canelo backs out. when they specifically discussed
GGG fighting on the cinco de mayo card that made my ears perk up because that
would get GGG paid probably more than he has made before, satisfying one of the
requirements, and if andy lee got by saunders then GGG could lock him in on that card
and take the wbo as the co-main event, satisfying the second requirement, and then
canelo fighting another 154lber would help hype the fall fight and give canelo a payday
to set money aside to secure GGG. the idea that the wbc is going to tell GGG to screw
if he doesn't step aside is lunacy though. that article doesn't come close to saying that
and explicitly says it is totally up to GB and K2. maybe suliaman said it because he
thinks the deal is doable, which is a whole other thing.
How could you come away with anything but the fact that there really is NO 15 DAY DEADLINE?
Read this and understand well: THE WBC WILL NOT BE STRIPPING CANELO OF ANYTHING ANYTIME SOON.
Here is the entire article. It is pretty clear what is happening even if you don't want to acknowledge it:
By Jose Luis Camarillo, notifight.com
The World Boxing Council (WBC) is willing to support "everything necessary" to ensure that a mandatory fight takes place between their new middleweight world champion, Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, and his mandatory challenger, unbeaten Kazakh Gennady "GGG" Golovkin, who also holds the WBA/IBO/IBF titles.
WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman likes the idea of having a doubleheader on Cinco De Mayo weekend, where both boxers appears on the same card to make title defenses, and then use that event to build toward a September showdown on Mexican Independence Day weekend.
He feels the fight can become much bigger with both boxers making defenses prior to a showdown in 2016.
"There is no disadvantage [in doing a doubleheader]. The subject [of making the fight] is in the hands of the promoters, Golden Boy Promotions and K2. They already know what the whole situation, especially if they reach an agreement where everyone makes a defense [prior to their mandatory fight] and use that as a leading into making this a much bigger event, with greater benefits for them - as was the case for Canelo against (Miguel) Cotto, where they did quite a job to maximize the event," Sulaiman said.
Sulaiman also says he is not worried about a potential lawsuit from Roc Nation Sports, who promote Miguel Cotto. There is a monetary dispute over last weekend's show, because of a financial split between RNS and Golden Boy - which Golden Boy wanted to change after the WBC recognized Cotto as their middleweight champion for failure to pay a sanctioning fee for the fight.
"Roc Nation has threatened to sue the WBC for everything that happened in the week of the function in Las Vegas, but we do not care. Instead of doing something negative, we did many things to support the function and the result was obvious, it was a great success," Sulaiman said
Still think there is going to be a new champ in 8 days?
Or a forced purse bid down the road?
If you do you aint payin' attention.
