There's nothing boxing loves more than a phony maudlin farewell. After a death, in the midst of everyone screwing everyone else, the industry pauses for a moment to feign grief for "one of their own" before going right back to their dirty work. Sometimes, that grief is well-founded and proper. Sometimes, though, it shows you just how phony and superficial the fight game can … [Read more...]
WBC President, Jose Sulaiman, Dead at 82
Jose Sulaiman, president of the WBC, passed away earlier today at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 82 after a long, undisclosed illness. Sulaiman, who was born in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico in 1931, went from amateur boxer and low-level official to ultimate boxing power broker over the course of nearly seven decades in the sport. Elected president of the … [Read more...]
Jose Sulaiman and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr: An Erotic Love Story; Magno’s Monday Rant
"Don" Jose Sulaiman, WBC President for Life and 81-year-old lucre lothario, stood in his boxers, ironing his gray slacks in the bedroom of his Mexico City man cave apartment. "Today is the day," he sang in a raspy baritone. Yes, it was the day Sulaiman finally made his move, laying all his cards on the table. After ten years of tortured silence and repressed feelings, it … [Read more...]
Sulaiman hates “fake” world titles and dishonest matchmaking, Wins Diamond Belt for hypocrisy
"In a press release issued from his Mexico City home office, the aged boxing bureaucrat voiced his indignation against "supposed organizations" sanctioning "fake" world title fights and "sullying the image of world organizations like the WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF." According to Sulaiman, these "belt-sellers" are only interested in money and couldn't care less about the safety of … [Read more...]
Broken News: Canelo-Cotto, Pacquiao-Marquez, and Don Jose Sulaiman
by Tim Harrison Being a member of the independent media isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, like most of the skulking, twitter-addicted, media-day-dwelling shills out there, we here at the Tribune can’t go out in public without having to fight adoring readers off with a tennis racket. But without the steady influx of revenue from the very subjects we’re expected to … [Read more...]