WBC President José Sulaiman said today, “On behalf of all of the members of the WBC and myself, I would like to express our sincere sympathy and condolences to our dear friend and distinguished promoter, Gary Shaw, for the passing away of his father.”

PURSE OFFER RESULTS

Bullit Knockout Promotions of Poland has won the rights to promote the vacant WBC cruiserweight world championship fight between Krzysztof Wlodarczyk of Poland and Giacobbe Fragomeni of Italy with a purse offer of $616,000 (U.S. dollars). OPI 2000 Promotions of Italy offered $477,717.00

In response to statements made by WBC light flyweight world champion Rodel Mayol and his handlers, who said that they are concerned that he will not be treated fairly by the ring officials in his fight this Saturday in Jalisco, Mexico, the World Boxing Council prepared the following statement:

The New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame Newsletter
Volume 15 Issue 2 E-Mail Address: hhascup@yahoo.com February 2010 NEXT MEETING DATE - PRESIDENT - HENRY HASCUP 59 KIPP AVE, LODI, N.J. 07644 (1-973-471-2458)

Thursday,
February 25th

* The next meeting for the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame will be on Thursday, February 25th, at the Faith Reformed Church located at 95 Washington St. in Lodi, N.J. which is right at the corner of Washington and Prospect St., starting at 8:00 P.M.

* We again will be showing Old Time Boxing films starting at 6:00 P.M.

Anna "La Polla" Fernandez was bestowed the Order Francisco de Miranda, in Venezuela.

Dear friends:

It is with a broken heart and with regret that I inform you that our dearest Roy Van Putten passed away last night in Aruba.

There is no one single person in the world that will not remember Roy's always exemplary behavior, professionalism and his sweet and warm smile.

We will be communicating details about the services and in the meantime I would like to express my deepest condolences to his wife Edith and Renato, who have joined the WBC family without missing one single convention since 1985.

The news released last week confirmed what I had previously said In this column, regarding the fact that the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. would not be held in March as it was being announced; in my experience, it was not possible that a fight of such magnitude could be promoted in just 60 days, as Pacquiao wished, as he will be running for office looking to get a position in the Chamber of Deputies of the Philippines and will precisely end his campaign in May.