WBC will spearhead gladiators` well being forum

This coming Saturday, boxers, managers, trainers, promoters, doctors and top officials from all around the World, meet in Los Angeles to discuss how to further improve the safety of the Sport and its hands on participants.

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman, who`s been at the helm of the WBC six years today, says  that the work achieved results in great satisfaction, but at times it`s been a difficult process resolving  problems along the way. He praised fighters as gladiators of the utmost bravery, simultaneously stressing that it`s the WBC`s avowed aim to protect them, pointing out  that commissioners have the future of boxing resting in their hands. In fifteen days there will be a full and comprehensive report of the LA Summit`s resolutions.

Mauricio commented that many accidents in fights, follow accidents in the gym and the WBC is pressing for gyms to report KO`s that occur in training.  This is essential to provide a comprehensive overview of boxers` comprehensive physical condition.

Safety has and always be number one priority of the World Boxing Council, which celebrates the  fifty seventh anniversary of its establishment on February 14th.  It was on that day in 1963 that the WBC was founded at the Prado Alffer Hotel in Mexico City, comprising of twelve member countries.  Today 166 affiliate nations bonds the WBC Family.  WBC Historian and Press Director Don Victor Cota,  attended that original meeting, and was at today`s Martes a Café meeting, sitting beside Mauricio Sulaiman at the Podium at the Rail Workers Union headquarters, near the Monument of Revolution, in the heart of Mexico City.