Controversy Hounds Mayol
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr.
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 01 Mar 2010
Controversy seems to follow Rodel Mayol around like a creepy stalker. Last November 21, 2009 he finally won a world title belt after four failed attempts when he beat WBC lt.flyweight champ Edgar Sosa by second round TKO in Chiapas, Mexico. The win was immediately followed by protests from the Sosa camp claiming it was Mayol?s headbutt that dazed Sosa and cost him the title. Sosa was hospitalized with a fractured cheekbone.
The World Boxing Council sided with Mayol and validated his title win. More than month ago, Mayol said that he would have wanted to fight in the undercard of a Manny Pacquiao fight. But Omar Ni?o Romero of Mexico was the mandatory challenger and Mayol had to fight him in Mexico.
A few days before his first title defense, Mayol irked the same World Boxing Council leading to the release of an official statement that they were ?extremely disappointed to have read statements made by Mayol and his camp.?
They were referring to published articles that Mayol was concerned about the judges and that he would not be treated fairly by the ring officials in Guadalajara, Mexico in his February 27 bout with Romero. There were also references in the WBC statement about Mayol being quoted as saying that he did not really need to fight Omar Ni?o.
Mayol issued his own official statement disowning the news reports and quotes. He apologized to the WBC for the statements ?unfairly blamed on his team.?
But somehow, that wasn?t the end of Mayol?s troubles. In their fight last weekend, with forty seconds to go in the third round, Nino delivered a low blow that caused Mayol to drop his guard and then the Mexican floored him with a left hook.
Mayol was taken out of the ring on a stretcher while the Mexican corner celebrated thinking they had won. The WBC vice-president Mauricio Sulaiman, however, then announced that the bout had been declared a draw.
The Mexican camp is crying foul once again. A rematch is in the works and even Mayol wants it. He came into this fight with something to prove having gone through two agonizing technical decisions against WBO lt.flyweight champ Ivan Calderon prior to the Sosa bout. Mayol wants a legitimate win and he wants to knock Omar Ni?o out.
The powers that be that are capable of having the rematch staged on neutral territory should make it happen. What happened to Mayol was hair-raising. He could have been hurt permanently.
Omar Ni?o Romero may have just pounced on an opportunity the
way Mayol saw his opportunity against Sosa. In a fight, a boxer?s basic instinct of survival in combat takes over. But basing on recent history, it would not be so far-fetched to say that there is still a vendetta out for Rodel Mayol.
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