ROUND 12: WBC / VADA CLEAN BOXING PROGRAM UPDATE

ROUND 12: WBC / VADA CLEAN BOXING PROGRAM UPDATE

As we enter a major holiday in the world – Easter or Holy Week for the Christian religion, Passover for the Jewish religion – so it is to many a time of reflection and evaluation of what we do. Sadly, we are all seeing the violent world continue to make headlines and the so many children suffering from the acts of the powers that rule the world. There is no country, no religion, not one person to point to and blame, but yes, there are ways to try to change and reduce the tragic moments we see day after day. Let’s all pray, in whatever language and to whichever God, that our violent world changes and we can all start by our own actions.

As we celebrate how Women’s Boxing is starting to finally shine in the major markets of boxing in the world, we see U.S. television finally airing female bouts, we see Cecilia Braekus’ phenomenal career unfold, the Claressa Shields excitement, the several Mexican world champions as main events on Mexican television, Marisela Cornejo’s journey to greatness, the Canadian Jelena Mrdjenovich’s incredible TV documentary, and the debut of medalist Marlen Esparza with Golden Boy Promotions. We sadly see some boxing jurisdictions take steps backwards and make decisions that can only haunt them and put our athletes in serious jeopardy. It has been reported that the U.K. will allow women to fight three-minute rounds!

In a separate report, we will share what has been studied through medical research for years, which was also presented in the WBC’s two female boxing world conventions. There is an easy formula: dehydration + fatigue + strong punch = possible tragedy.

The WBC will never allow three-minute rounds, and will never allow any fight over 10 rounds. That will limit the dehydration and the fatigue elements to lower as much as possible the risk to a tragedy.

The WBC keeps working very hard with the Clean Boxing Program. This is our top priority, and once again I would like to thank and praise Dr. Margaret Goodman and her team at VADA for their dedication and passion to partner with the WBC in making the CBP a reality.

I am happy and honored to present the report of the three months of activity in 2017. I want to thank the many persons who have joined this journey for safe boxing: promoters, managers, trainers, media, fans, and most importability the boxers and their families. Let’s keep moving forward and keep sharing information to make our sport as safe as possible.

The WBC is proud to present the results of the first 3 months of activity of the CBP in 2017:

   32 fighters have been tested out of competition with random selection:

Jermell Charlo – Andre Dirrell – Mateus Korobov – Constantin Benaru – Ivan Baranchyk – Cletus Seldin

Gerald Washington – Erikson Lubin – Alex Fonfara – Paulie Malinaggi – Lucian Bute – Eleider Alvarez

Chris Algieri – Peter Quillin – Cesar Juarez – Oscar Valdez – Tevin Farmer – Sergey Kovalev – Edgar Jimenez

Rogelio Medina Luna – Victor Mendez –  Andrej Wawrzyk – Deontay Wilder – Jermell Charlo – Matheus Korobov

Ivan baranchyk –  Gerald Washington –  Alexander Povetkin – Nawaphon Kaikhana – Deonyay Wilder

– Saul Alvarez –  Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

* Some Boxers have been tested multiple times

 Collection of tests has been performed in 11 countries and some cases multiple states in a country:  

Poland  –  Canada –  Mexico  –  USA

Thailand –  France –  Germany –   Bulgaria

Denmark –  Australia – United Kingdom

  6 Fights have contracted services of VADA for Antidoping Services:

Deontay Wilder vs Gerald Washington

Julio Cesar Chavez vs  Saul Alvarez

Gennady Golovkin vs Danny Jacobs

Deontay Wilder vs Andrzej Wawrzyk

Roman Gonzalez vs Srisaket Sor Rungvisai

Eleider Alvarez vs Lucian  Bute

 19 Fighters have been taken out of WBC ratings for declining enrolment in CBP:

David Haye   – David Price – Erkan Teper – Daquan Amett  –  Michael Soro  –   Rances Barthelemy

Felix Verdejo – Emiliano Marsili –  Yuriorkis Gamboa  –  Hairon Socarras  –  Edivaldo ortega

Emmanuel Navarrete –  Gideon Buthelezi  – Brian Viloria  – Moises Calleros  – Javier Mendoza

Angel Acosta  –  Janiel Rivera – Carlos Buitrago –

  The WBC has made the official ruling of the adverse findings for the following cases:

–      Alexander Povetkin  – Povetkin has presented an appeal which will be evaluated in near future

–       Cletus Seldin

–       Lucas Brown

  The WBC is in final stages of  process to release the official ruling of the following cases:

–       Andrzej Wawrzyk

–       Suriyan Kaikanha (Suriyan Sor Rungvisai)

 *The WBC encourages all boxers and members of the boxing community to be very cautious on ingesting any supplements as the WBC does not recommend or endorse any supplements. 

We invite you all to watch this webinar which hill help you understand  everything about CBP.

Link: http://wbcboxing.com/WBCVADA/

*All enrolled fighters must inform their changes of location using the whereabouts form,or reporting directly to VADA, as instructed in our webinar