WBC Heroes for Humanity Award seeks out the  bravest of the brave

Humanity is facing the gravest most insidious  challenge,  fighting with all of our intelligence, ingenuity, innovation and resources against the relentless COVID 19 PANDEMIC, and in the midst of this Global Crisis, heroes and heroines are emerging.

Our most daunting and our greatest fight today and tomorrow, up to and beyond the horizon,  is outside ring perimeters, against an invisible opponent.  A virus which knows not,  or plays by any codes rules or mores.  Rather,  it`s a merciless deadly reaper, who`s progress can only be checked with coordinated policies, including the Stay home-Stay Safe campaign, social distancing,  plus pristine and meticulous hygiene.  Scientists around the World, are working around the clock, seven days a week to develop a vaccine to combat and ultimately defeat Coronavirus,  and in so doing stamp it out for good and forever!

The darkest hour leads up to dawn.  Throughout our history, the World has known, encountered, suffered, endured and overcome war,  pestilence, famine and flood.  From the  greatest catastrophes, emerge the very finest acts of selfless heroism, which defines and make us shine as Humanity.  This courage does not adhere to size, strength, gender or age.  It`s a quality of spirit which is within us all.

The World Boxing Council  has created their Heroes for Humanity Award, inspired by boxers who through their kindness, humility, bravery and resolute determination, are striving to overcome this terrible blow, get up from a grievous knockdown, and help  communities regain their feet, equilibrium  and their confidence, throughout the duration of this appalling  crises.  We WILL fight the twelve rounds to victory!

This pioneering  response has been so outstanding  that the USA  Congressional Task Force has chosen to issue a Special Certificate to each one who wins a WBC Hero’s award.  It is essential to emphasize that this is a fighter`s award.  By fighter, we mean any person who`s prepared to show courage to distinguish themselves.  It will be pinned on those who show their valor and decency in helping others who really need nourishing and encouraging in so many different ways, often at their lowest ebb.

It`s your help through sustenance, which saves lives, enriches them and gives them meaning.  It`s our privilege and our honor to acknowledge this as a beacon of  hope and inspiration, but in so doing we need your help.  To nominate someone, who`s excelled in this way, please send their name and the reason you think they’re a hero to President@wbcboxing.com. The  winners will receive their award on our WBC Talks broadcast.

The WBC and President, Mauricio Sulaiman, salute our heroes.

Courage which defines  a hero/heroine, comes in many shapes and forms. Here are some ways in which it`s been described:

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look at fear in the face.

You are able to say to yourself, I lived through that horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”

NELSON MANDELA:

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not fear,

but he who conquers that fear.

CS LEWIS:

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage, he is at least safe from people!”

WINSTON CHURCHILL:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It`s the courage to continue that counts.