WBC ELECTS FENECH AS BOXERS REPRESENTATIVE IN THE BOARD
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 14 Nov 2007
The WBC has decided to include a boxers' representative in the Board of Governors who will represent the interests of the fighters and has unanimously chosen multi-titled former world champion Jeff Fenech of Australian as the first boxers' representative.
The WBC meeting in Manila for its 45th Annual Convention also selected Don Majeski as the managers representative. Majeski joins Salvatore Cherchi who was voted as the promoters representative two years ago.
In what the host nation?s Eric Buhain, chairman of the Games and Amusements Board described as a ?hardworking convention? the WBC also decided to draw up a new list of levels for boxers which will be created during the next year.
WBC executive director Mauricio Sulaiman, son of Don Jose, said ?all boxers in the world will be placed in a level or bracket according to their current abilities which would consider several factors.?
Among those enumerated by Sulaiman were a fighter?s amateur career, number of pro fights, amount of rounds fought, record, style, latest results and other factors.
The categorization of boxers is intended to match fighters in the same level and prevent mismatches. In an interview with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today the WBC president described mismatches as ?dangerous for the health of the boxers and a fraud to the public.?
Fenech won the world bantamweight title in only his seventh pro fight with a 9th round knockout over Japan?s Shatoshi Shingaki and won his second world title when he knocked out junior featherweight champion Samart Payakarun in fouir rounds in 1987. He then moved up to featherweight division and won the WBC title for his third crown when he scored a 10th round knockout over Victor Luvi Callejas of Puerto Rico.
The three-division world champion tried to add a fourth title in an amazing career but suffered his first defeat at the hands of the great Azumah Nelson of Ghana when he was knocked out in the 8th round by the junior lightweight champion in March 1992. Fenech retired in 1996 after being knocked out in the 2nd round by Phillip Holiday in an IBF junior lightweight battle in 1996. Fenech ended his career with a record of 27-3-1 with 20 knockouts.
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