WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS
Posted on | March 19, 2009 | No Comments
March 17, 2009 – Mexico City.
From WBC President Jose Sulaiman:
The WBC has obtained a donation from the Roomate Hotel of furniture for 75 bedrooms that the WBC will donate to professional boxers with very limited financial conditions in Mexico, especially to former world or national champions as well as to those who are indigent, but who were professionals for at least five years.
The first two boxers to receive this donation of a bed with a base and its mattress, a wooden closet 24-inch television, a desk and a minibar are Víctor Rabanales from Chiapas and Raul “Baby” Juárez from Mexico City. Rabanales is a former WBC bantamweight champion of the world who was for a time under the influence of drugs, but recovered after a rehabilitation program of several months that was sponsored by the WBC. He is married and has two little children. Juárez was a three-time Mexican national champion and fought unsuccessfully for the world title two times. He is also married.
The WBC declares a day or mourning for Jean Deswert, a fine boxing gentleman who dedicated so much for so many years to boxing. Mr. Deswert, who was born in 1926, was a well-known referee and judge for the European Boxing Union and WBC, a member of the WBC Ring Officials Committee, and a great leader of the Royal Belgian Boxing Federation.