Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the WBC, has promised to look into claims from Robeisy Ramirez that his fight with Asror Vokhidov was today unduly cancelled in Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n
“Tonight I was supposed to be fighting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan,” Ramirez, 14-3 (9 KOs), wrote on social media. “Instead my fight got cancelled over a ‘supposedly’ late MRI. I made my position clear to @wbcmoro [Sulaiman] in our call with my attorney. Mauricio, you say you look out for fighters. Prove it. Do right by boxing. Do right by me.”<\/p>\n
Ramirez, in a separate post, explained that the reason he was given for the cancellation – from officials associated with the WBC and promoters – was the absence of an MRI scan. In the same post, he published a photo of him with what appears to be MRI scan results dated May 29 and timed at 5:37pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is also being alleged by Ramirez that he was asked, and refused, to sign a three-fight deal by Raizd Boxing to guarantee his purse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“What happens in these parts of the world deserves to be investigated,” Ramirez said.<\/p>\n
Sulaiman responded to the allegations on social media.<\/p>\n
“I attended phone calls being in Mexico – so I personally couldn’t find anything specific,” he wrote in part. “Safety will always be a top priority… I will personally make a report once all facts are known.”<\/p>\n
Ramirez, 14-3 (9 KOs), is a double Olympic champion and former WBO featherweight beltholder. He was hoping to make his return, under the guidance of the renowned coach Robert Garcia, following a 17-month absence from the ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the WBC, has promised to look into claims from Robeisy Ramirez that his fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,208151,208152,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-robeisy-ramirez","tag-robeisy-ramirez-fight-cancellation","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}