Sulaiman to Refs: Don?t Solicit To Be Appointed As Ring Official
By Alex P. Vidal
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 18 Nov 2007
MANILA -- World Boxing Council (WBC) president Don Jose Sulaiman Chagnon has reminded ring officials?referees and judges?to observe the ring officials code of ethics adopted by the WBC or be removed from the list of certified WBC ring officials ?and will receive no further assignments from the WBC.?
In his message during the 45th convention at the Manila Hotel before the start of seminar for WBC ring officials supervised by Hawaai?s Hubert Minn, Sulaiman informed ring officials from the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe that he ?counts on the fact that your performance will be exemplary, and you will proudly represent our organization.?
Sulaiman also introduced four guides for ring officials:
1. Sudoka Puzzles, which are an excellent tool to improve concentration;
2. Pocket reminders, which are used to remind the scoring criteria that have been the norm in world boxing, and which have been standardized among all the WBC ring officials, searching for justice and equity when scoring a fight;
3. Self evaluation form to filled out and sent to either the fight supervisor or the WBC executive secretary; and
4. Code of ethics.
The WBC president exhorted ring officials to strictly observe the following:
1. No ring official shall in any manner hint or directly solicit any promoter, manager, trainer, fighter or commission to be appointed as a ring official in any WBC title fight;
2. No ring official shall hint or directly solicit any WBC officer or member of the WBC Board of Governor to be appointed as a ring official in any WBC title fight.
3. No ring official shall accept any gift of significant monetary value from any promoter, manager, trainer, fighter or solicit from any promoter, manager, trainer or fighter anything of significant monetary value;
4. No ring official shall in any manner publicly criticize the performance of any other ring official;
5. No ring official shall in any manner publicly criticize the performance of any boxer that contended for a WBC title fight;
6. No ring official shall in any manner publicly criticize the appointment of any other ring official for a WBC title fight;
7. No ring official shall represent or attempt to represent the wBC in any manner other than as a ring official;
8. After an appointment to serve as a ring official in a WBC title fight, no ring official shall prior to the fight have any contact, social or otherwise, with any promoter, manager, trainer or fighter involved in the title fight other than contacts made with the promoter or promoter?s employees relating to travel and hotel accommodations, except when accompanied by the WBC supervisor;
9. No ring official shall engage in any conduct that will discredit the WBC or any other ring official;
10. In the event that any ring official is contacted by a representative of the WBC to serve as a ring official in a WBC title fight and such ring official has even the slightest reason to feel or believe that he or she can not be totally fair and impartial to both fighters, the ring official shall decline the appointment;
11. On WBC sanctioned events. No ring official shall solicit tickets or credentials to the local commission where the fight will take place, nor to promoters, fighters, managers or trainers; and
12. No ring official that is appointed for a WBC title can be seen in public places after midnight, gambling or drinking at any time.
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