SULAIMAN RE-ELECTED WBC PRESIDENT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 05 Nov 2008
Dr. Jose Sulaiman was unimously reelected president of the World Boxing Council for another term from 2008 to 2012 at the 46th Annual Convention of the world's premier boxing organization in Chengdu, China.
It was a unanimous vote by the members of the WBC Board of governors with each federation granted two votes with Africa being the exception with three.
In his acceptance remarks Don Jose said "I appreciate your trust in me. I have eternal gratitute and I ask you to please keep working together to make our mission in the WBC of getting stronger and stronger in the world succeed.."
Jose Sulaiman has been President of the WBC since the 1975 convention in Tunis.
Eleven countries met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963 at the invitation of Mexican president Don Adolfo Lopez Matreos to create an international boxing organization that was aimed at achieving, according to the WBC history, ? unity among all the commissions of the world to control the expansion of the sport that desperately needed it.?
The countries that met were the US , Argentina , Britain , France , Panama , Chile , Peru , Venezuela , Brazil , Mexico and the Philippines which was represented by then Games and Amusements Board chairman Justiniano Montano Jr and secretary general Rudy Salud.
The WBC stated that the meeting in Mexico that founded the World Boxing Council ?gave birth to the greatest, most powerful and representative boxing organization of all time.?
However, the eminent lawyer Rudy Salud who was elected secretary general at the Manila convention of the organization in 1965 where then Games and Amusements Board chairman Justiniano Montano Jr was elected president, clarified that at the 1963 Mexico meeting the gathering ?agreed to agree? on establishing a world organization and that Mexico?s Luis Spota was chosen as ?a sort of Officer-in-Charge.?
It was clear that no elections could he held without a constitutional framework and it was only in Manila when a Constitution and By Laws was drafted and ratified that elections were held resulting in the assumption of office by Montano and Salud.
Both men quit in late 1971 and Velasquez was chosen president. Velasquez sought re-election but a young Sulaiman won at a gathering of 27 delegations in the Africa Hotel in Tunisia.
The five federations affiliated with the WBC at that time were the European, British Boxing Board of Control, Oriental Boxing Federation, North American Boxing Federation and Latin America . That same year the affiliation of the African Boxing Union was confirmed.
During the WBC Convention in Manila last year Sulaiman paid tribute to both Montano and Salud in particular under whom Sulaiman served on the Ratings Committee where Salud was chairman. In fact Salud was bestowed a ?Lifetime Achievement Award? at the convention which Salud said he accepted on behalf of ?my country and people.?
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