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Salud assails boxing body
Written by Staff   
Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:08

LAWYER-SPORTSMAN Rudy Salud, founding secretary-general of the World Boxing Council, has assailed the World Boxing Association for fooling us and making money out of us.

Salud, who was also former secretary-general of the Games and Amusements Board, one time secretary-general of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines, former executive director of the Philippine Racing Commission and the most successful Philippine Basketball Association commissioner in the 33-year history of the pro basketball league, said it was very clear that super flyweight champion Christian Mijares was “kicked up to a super champion which means absolutely nothing.”

This was done after Mijares’ May 17 victory over Alexander Muñoz, thereby being recognized as unified champion with the regular title status “automatically declared vacant.”

Salud said this was a ploy so the WBA could sanction a fight for the vacant title between no. 1-ranked Nobou Nashiro and no. 2-ranked Kohei Kono, set for Sept. 15 in Yokohama, Japan, for which the organization would earn a sanction fee of $20,000.

He said the WBA also sanctioned an interim title fight between AJ Banal and Rafael Concepcion, which was staged last July 26 at the Cebu Coliseum and received another $20,000 as sanction fee.

Salud argued that under the rules, the winner of the Concepcion-Banal interim title would cease to be considered an interim champion once one of the Japanese fighters wins in Yokohama in September. “You cannot have an interim champion once you have a regular champion, so even if Banal won, he’d hold nothing by Sept. 15.”
 
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