A CENTER OF WORLD SPORT, CHINA TO HOST WBC CONVENTION
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 13 Aug 2015
Sulaiman.
China continues to become a center of world sport. Following its winning bid over the Philippines to stage the World Cup of Basketball in 2019, China will next host the Annual Convention of the premier professional boxing organization, the World Boxing Council on Kunming from November 1 to 7.
The WBC website notes that relations between China and the World Boxing Council ?began brewing and percolating 10 years ago, prior to the historic 46th convention in this extraordinary nation where gunpowder and fireworks were invented.?
The magnificently hospitable host for the first WBC Convention in China was Chengdu, where the boxing family was most kindly received by everyone and due to the efforts of the hosts the event, according to the WBC, ?was unique and unforgettable with a fertile seed being planted, portending a brilliant future.?
The WBC described it as a unique Convention where the boxing elite gathered and where legendary American promoter Don King presented a fight card at the Sichuan Gymnasium.
In the main event former super bantamweight, featherweight and super featherweight, Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera won by a 4th round TKO over Sammy Ventura with Kenny Bayless as referee.
At the initiative of the esteemed, late WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman, China?s Xiong Zhao Zhong of China won the vacant minimum weight title with a unanimous points decision over Mexico?s Javier Martinez Resendiz on November 24, 2012 paving the way for an upsurge in interest for the sport of boxing in China in what was regarded as a crucial first step of a long journey with Zhong becoming the first Chinese to win a world title - WBC crown.
China and the WBC again combine, this time under the leadership of president Mauricio Sulaiman who succeeded his father, the late Don Jose Sulaiman, for the 53rd Convention that will take place in Kunming where boxing has been flourishing in recent years with the world?s leading promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank staging fight cards on a regular basis in China as well as Macau.
The WBC believes the November Convention is an event you can?t miss and from all indications a huge number of Filipino boxing people led by the Games and Amusements Board chairman Ramon Guanzon and renowned boxing patron Tony Aldeguer of the famed ALA Promotions.
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