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"WBC Prez Shakes Head: I'm Tired of Childish Actions By Canelo!"

World Boxing Council (WBC) president Mauricio Sulaiman is shaking his head at the recent public statements that were made by Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs), who last week issued a press release to make it clear that he was NOT fighting Gennady Golovkin for the WBC middleweight title.

Canelo is only planning to fight Golovkin for the WBA and IBF world titles. He is not paying any fees to the WBC or IBO - which also have Golovkin as their world champion.

If Canelo wins, he would capture the IBF, WBA titles and the WBC, IBO belts would likely become vacant.

The feud between Canelo and the WBC has been brewing since last year, when the Mexican star was the WBC middleweight champion. He claims the sanctioning body tried to pressure him into reaching an immediate deal for a mandatory fight with Golovkin. Canelo claims he was threatened with the likelihood of a purse bid being called - so he vacated the title.

The WBC would then hand over the vacant belt to Golovkin - an action that infuriated Canelo even further, because GGG captured the belt without actually having to fight for it.

Back in May, Canelo rejected the WBC's request to have a commemorative title belt at stake in his fight with countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

"I've gotten tired of these children's actions, [Canelo] tries to divert attention [away from the fight] and there is nothing there [in terms of a problem]. He should simply dedicate himself to training and fighting, because that is important," Sulaiman said.

Thoughts?

I'm tired of the commemorative belts from the WBC.

Easy solution, he doesn't want anything to do with them.

The sanctioning bodies are just awful, consistingly acting against what should be their main goal, and making up random titles for more money, recognising the best in the division.

The WBC weren't wrong to try and force the mandatory, it's the fight the division needed.

Don't feel sorry for them tho, bunch of fliipin idiots, bet they're seething and not getting a fee for this one

The WBC gave a 15 day deadline for Canelo to sign a contract to fight Golovkin. That is what I have a problem with. They could have given him more time such as 30 or 60 days.

The WBC said that they may give a belt to the Mayweather vs. McGregor winner.

RScarf1 wrote:The WBC gave a 15 day deadline for Canelo to sign a contract to fight Golovkin. That is what I have a problem with. They could have given him more time such as 30 or 60 days.

You’re absolutely spot on!

The WBC installed a blatantly unreasonable 15-day deadline for Canelo to come to an agreement with Gennady Golovkin (immediately after the Mexican had defended his belt against Amir Khan), with the World Boxing Council president (Mauricio Sulaiman) knowing full-well that both Alvarez and also his promoter (Golden Boy) were physically in Florida attending court addressing the All Star Boxing lawsuit.

Also, the WBC decided to create their commemorative Mexican belt to "celebrate" the Chavez-Canelo bout despite being told by Alvarez beforehand that their involvement wasn't required, since it was a non-title catch-weight contest.

It superficially-appeared that the WBC tried to blackmail Alvarez into accepting their commemorative Mexican belt (due to patriotic reasons, with a refusal possibly offending his fans) as a desperate ploy to receive 3% of the combined total fight purses of Chavez & Canelo from the resulting sanctioning-fees.

Love this, go canelo

...sometimes one has to admit they act and look like a bunch of moochers...