WBC FECARBOX FARCE
May 15, 2008
In Mexico on Friday, KO Entertainment will promote a WBC Fecarbox title double header. Erik Ramirez 23-5-1(18.) will win the WBC Fecarbox minimumweight title, while Michael Lozada 28-4-1(21) will retain his super featherweight version.
Why do I know they will win? Because their opponents, with all due respect, are of very poor quality, and should not be fighting for even these trinket titles. A bookmaker would not give odds any better than 1/33 on Ramirez and Lazada to win.
Victor Rojas, who fights Ramirez, is 4-17-2, and is ranked #365 by boxrec. (Ramirez is #66.) Rojas is 0-9 in his last 9 fights, and has not won a fight since 2001.
Mondragon, 6-17-1, is ranked 728th by boxrec, compared to Lozada’s #79. All but three of his losses have come inside the distance, and he is currently on a streak of 1-8 (his win was over an opponent who entered the ring with a 0-3 record.)
Rojas and Mandragon barely pass as opponents for an acceptable “keep-busy” fight. That the WBC has sanctioned them to “contest” one of its titles once again raises questions as to whether world rankings are achieved through the level of opponent a boxer has beaten, or the level of sanctioning fees his promoter has paid to the sanctioning bodies.
May 16, 2008 at 8:37 pm
In the beginning the Erik Ramirez fight was going to be authorized, but after checking the records it was not approved as informed by Alberto Guerra from Panama, so finally Victor Rojas never even showed up at the Weighing. Erik Ramirez will go for 10 rounds
Michel Lozada will also go for 10 Rounds in a NON FECARBOX Title Bout
Just to clarify, The WBC Always checks the Records and the Skills of the upcoming opponents, before any title fight is authorized.
May 16, 2008 at 9:30 pm
[...] 16, 2008 Thank you to the WBC for responding to yesterday’s post and clarifying their situation. I copy their response [...]
May 17, 2008 at 12:53 am
The WBC always checks the records? They may check them but if they allow anyone to fight then what good is checking them? Please – the WBC (and all the other organizations) are so full of it they’ve begun believing their own line of garbage. What makes the Thai so deserving of his bout with Arce in Mexico? Because he’s the ABCO champion? That title in itself is a scam to get non-deserving Thai fighters ranked in the WBC’s world rankings. This site is Boxing Bollox – and that’s the WBC for ya, bollox.
June 19, 2008 at 11:52 am
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Planetarium!!!