May 26th, 2015
Dear friends,
It is my pleasure to officially announce that the WBC 53rd Annual World Convention will be held in Kunming, Province of Yunnan, People’s Republic of China, from November the 1st (arrival) to November the 7th (departure). The hotel site will be the Intercontinental Kunming Hotel.
We know that many attendees like to know the date of our convention ahead of time to get better airfares that can be obtained for anticipated acquisition of tickets.
We have agreed to have the arrival of all attending delegates as follows:
October 30, Friday Arrival of Ratings Committee
October 31, Saturday Arrival of members of the Board of Governors.
November the 1st, Arrival of all delegates.
We will have the official opening of the convention the morning of November the 2nd. The closing of the convention and returning home of all delegates will be on November the 7th.
Kunming is being prepared to offer the WBC members one of the best conventions ever and I hope that we all will start making arrangements for our convention.
People’s Republic of China requires that all attending delegates apply for entry visa. However we recommend that you double check with your travel agent any requirements for such country.
It is very important that every person who plans to attend this convention immediately sends his/her reservation, as soon as possible, directly to the Intercontinental Kunming Hotel, where you will find booking explanation http://demopcty.yun2.ynyes.com/list77p1 copying mnicolat@wbcboxing.com There will be two alternate hotels that will be informed next week.
Please take notice of this information, so that we can start organizing this great 53rd Annual Convention in Kunming, for which many surprises are being prepared for the attendants, as well as an important number of recommendations and new suggestions for improving our world of boxing.
I hope to see you in this beautiful place, which is a paradise to strengthen our friendship and the unity of the WBC’s for the betterment of boxing.
Mauricio Sulaiman,
WBC President.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
