{"id":324944,"date":"2025-12-04T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324944\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:09:07","slug":"wbc-president-has-his-say-on-unfortunate-situation-after-stripping-terence-crawford-of-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324944\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC President has his say on &#8216;unfortunate&#8217; situation after stripping Terence Crawford of title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more unexpected developments to emerge from this year\u2019s WBC Convention is the growing fallout between the sanctioning body and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman confirmed that Crawford had been stripped of his WBC super-middleweight title for failing to pay sanctioning fees. The decision ends his reign as undisputed champion at 168lbs, leaving him with the remaining three belts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5yq56d74vlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The now-vacant WBC title is set to be contested by interim champion Christian Mbilli and leading contender Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford responded with a furious nine-minute rant on Instagram Live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see Mauricio got a lot to say about me not paying him $300,000 plus another $100k-something for sanctioning fees. Then he\u2019s going to tell me I didn\u2019t even apologise. Like, who the f*** do you think I am? Boy, you\u2019ve got to slap your f*****g self. I ain\u2019t paying your ass s**t. What the f*** you talking about, pay you $300,000? What makes you so mother*****g better than any of the other sanctioning bodies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the outburst, Sulaiman insists the door remains open for Crawford to work with the WBC again. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0IMNJPFFqOU&amp;t=69s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iFL TV<\/a>, he said the organisation had made \u201cevery attempt\u201d to resolve the issue before taking action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate. Terence\u2019s actions led to the WBC deciding something. We tried to find a resolution and avoid what eventually happened. But boxing champions have obligations, the same as they have great benefits from being a WBC champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also praised Crawford\u2019s career and made clear that the relationship is not beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he ever fights for the WBC and wants to abide by the rules, he\u2019s more than welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the more unexpected developments to emerge from this year\u2019s WBC Convention is the growing fallout between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}