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WBC President Jose Sulaiman has expressed concern on the free way that boxing organizations are using the approval of interim championships, when they should be used strictly when a champion leaves a title inactive for medical or legal problems.



President Sulaiman will present a recommendation to the WBC Governors at the coming 48th annual convention to be held in Cancun, Mexico, from November 7 to the 13, in regards to instituting a WBC silver world championship, with the prototype being absolutely beautiful, in substitution of an interim championship that does not represent a real title, when it is approved only for a fight without real significance.



The sport of boxing is changing, being now all the way into the 21st Century, and television and other types of promotional organizations, and ways must be found to keep the interest of boxing fans in the world, who are depending on reform that the WBC has been doing for three decades.



The objective is to have the WBC silver championship to be second only to a WBC World Championship, which is even lower how an interim title is being taken by the boxing fans.





WBC CARES IN QUERETARO



President Sulaiman and the WBC team of WBC Cares visited the hospital for burned children in Querétaro, México, and presented the children with sweets and toys. Several former world champions were present on the visit, including Chiquita Gonzalez, Carlos Zárate, Chucho Castillo, Rodolfo Martinez, Victor Rabanales, and Toño Aguirre, among others.



President Sulaiman also gave the children a message to never lose faith, continue playing and studying, and always have dreams. He told them that as an adolescent, he also had a serious burn injury that has left him still today with barely visible fingerprints of both of his hands. He said that he overcame the problem, and came back strongly to continue his studies and work all of his life. It was a good visit, as most of the children at the hospital were very poor.



The WBC group, with all the champions and many other WBC members, including the WBC representative in Querétaro, were visiting Governor José Calzada and the First Lady of the State, with whom the first WBC training gym and school was inaugurated, as well visiting CRIC, a children’s rehabilitating center with more than 400 children who were also presented with candies, toys, miniature boxing gloves, many photos, and the empathic moral support of the presence of the world champions.