The boxing world remembers Don José Sulaimán 10 years of his goodbye
By Gabriel F. Cordero
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
This Tuesday, January 16, in the Antigua Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, a mass was celebrated in memory of the 10 years since the departure of Don José Sulaimán, an extraordinary Mexican sports social leader who took boxing to the highest levels of the world sport.
His family, the family of the World Boxing Council together with the Boxing Family including boxers, champions, trainers, promoters, journalists and fans commemorated the tenth anniversary of his death by remembering anecdotes and outstanding achievements that he managed to immortalize inside and outside of the boxing world.
Don José Sulaimán was a visionary in his time and we can safely say that he was a sports and social influencer from boxing to sports and from Mexico to the World.
"Boxing was everything in Don José's life. They have been 10 fast, slow, difficult years, full of satisfaction but I know that my father always opens the doors for us day by day," said Mauricio Sulaimán after a decade without his father and at the head of the green and gold organization, the most important in boxing and world sport.
After 10 years without José Sulaimán, the life president of the WBC, it has now been up to his son Mauricio Sulaimán to continue the legacy in defense of boxing, fighting against different economic and television interests along with new markets, the emergence of platforms and the continued protection of the boxer inside and outside the ring from the pre-scenarios, doping controls, protection insurance and the continuous updating of ring officials and the body's medical staff.
Don José Sulaimán was a faithful, kind man, always in a constant search for good and a remembered family leader but above all a man of peace, a friend to many and a man full of kindness who, together with humility and work, achieved the most important changes. and transcendental in the history of boxing.
We remember you with great gratitude and nostalgia...Forever Don José Sulaimán--
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