WBC PRESIDENT MAURICIO SULAIMAN ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH UCLA, VADA ON RANDOM DRUG TESTING
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 31 Mar 2016
In a laudable effort to try to establish new ways of protecting fighters, WBC president Maurico Sulaiman has told The Standard that the premier pro boxing organization in the world has a two-year program with UCLA, the University of California in Los Angeles and VADA, the Voluntary Anti Doping Association headed by Dr. Margaret Goodman, to eradicate if possible, the use of performance enhancing drugs.
In an exclusive interview with us at the 16 th Gabriel ?Flash? Elorde Annual Awards at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, Sulaiman ?they are doing testing which is out of competition. It's random testing and basically we want to teach the kids that some of these substances are harmful.?
The WBC president noted that some of these substances when taken by footballers or baseball players ?you are scoring, but when you take a substance in boxing you are punching another person.?
Sulaiman emphasized ?there are terrible side-effects on the kidneys, the heart, the liver. So we need to educate fighters, trainers and managers. It?s a system that needs to be incorporated in the WBC rules.?
Discussing the planned July mandatory title fight of No.1 ranked Jonathan Taconing of the Johnny Elorde stable who faces newly crowned light flyweight champion Ganigan Lopez, Mauricio said he believes that Taconing ?will be a new world champion because he is a great fighter and will take the opportunity? which Sulaiman and the WBC provided the Filipino southpaw.
He said the Philippines is ?one of the top five countries in boxing in the world ? and that he wishes to return to the country to meet more people because ?I am sure many Filipinos will be fighting for world titles in the future.?
Photo: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman (L) with the author during the Elorde Awards night at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel Tuesday.
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