Diskussion:World Boxing Council
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Dankenswerterweise gibt es einen Artikel zum WBC. Allerdings ist dieser Artikel doch wohl ergänzungsbedürftig - wenn man sich bspw. die Einträge zu den anderen Boxorganisationen ansieht. Allerdings habe ich leider nicht die Sachkenntnis dafür... Karloswinz 23:14, 18. Apr 2006 (CEST)
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Originaltext aus der Box-Zeitschrift Boxing Monthly : O-Ton (England): "Tyson’s promoter at the time, Don King, tried to get the result voided because, he said, Octavio Meyran had given Douglas a “slow count” when the challenger went down in the eighth. He said the video showed that Douglas was on the floor for longer than 10 seconds. But while Meyran seemed to have picked up the count incorrectly from the timekeeper, the fact of the matter was that Douglas had done what he was supposed to do and beaten the count, getting up at nine, whereupon the round ended. Initially, WBC president Jose Sulaiman seemed quite prepared to go along with Don King’s “no contest” proposal. But the International Boxing Federation announced immediately that it considered Douglas to be the new champion. The World Boxing Association later announced it, too, would recognise Douglas. The WBC belatedly followed suit. It was learned that Sulaiman faced a withdrawal from the WBC by top U.S. commissions and the British Boxing Board, among others, if his organisation had failed to validate Douglas’s victory. Michael Marley of the New York Post wrote that Sulaiman reportedly told a confidant: “I made a mistake. I feel sick,” in reference to the WBC delay in recognising Buster as champ.
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