NEVADA COMMISSION SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 28 Sep 2008
Keith Kizer.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission has set the record straight following a debate in the Philippines over suggestions that the Games and Amusements Board which has supervision and control over professional boxing in the country and licenses fighters should try to stop the ?Dream Match? between Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao and ?The Golden Boy? Oscar De La Hoya.
Congressman Rufus Rodriguez cited the height, reach and size advantage of De La Hoya and said he will ?kill the smaller Pacquiao even as he asked the chairman of the Games and Amusements Board to try to stop the December 6 showdown at the MGM Grand by cancelling the license of Pacquiao.
The GAB is the government regulatory body that has supervision and control over professional sports, including boxing, and licenses fighters and approves fights abroad.
However, former WBC founding secretary general, lawyer Rudy Salud said neither the GAB nor the World Boxing Council have jurisdiction over the Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight and the only body that can disallow the bout is the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
In an email response to questions from www.insidesports.ph, NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer said the NSAC had ?approved the fight? and that it is only the Nevada Commission that has ?jurisdiction over the fight? since it is being held in Las Vegas.
Kizer also maintained that any cancellation of Pacquiao?s license by the GAB which Salud earlier maintained ?cannot be done unilaterally and without a proper hearing? will not have any ?effect or impact? on the NSAC decision allowing Pacquiao to fight De La Hoya.
Kizer also said the WBC has no jurisdiction over the fight which is not a WBC-sanctioned event. This was earlier conceded by WBC chairman Don Jose Sulaiman who did say however that just like Chairman Buhain he was concerned over the disparity between Pacquiao and De La Hoya.
When Kizer was named executive director of the NSAC in March 2006 it was clear, as respected boxing writer Kevin Iole pointed out, that a large portion of his job was ensuring that fighters are evenly matched.
Iole quoted Kizer as saying ?every boxer, no matter at what level he or she is at, what purse they might be paid, what card they may fight on, is important to us. We owe it to them to ensure an even playing field. That?s been the case since I came on board as legal counsel and I am sure its going to be the case well into the future.?
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