July 13th, 2015.
My dear friends,
We are very close to our 53rd Annual World Convention to be held in Kunming, China, from November 1 (arrival) to November 7 (departure). The hotel site will be the Kunming Intercontinental, which is beautiful; we will need to have perfect organization because there is an important barrier in language in China.
Everybody is recommended to proceed with direct bookings of the hotel, which makes the work much easier, to the following link:
http://demopcty.yun2.ynyes.com/
Ratings Committee members are scheduled to arrive on Thursday October 29 and work Friday 30, Sunday 31st
* If arrival on the 29 is complicated, then we will arrange the Ratings Committee meetings for Saturday 31 and part of Sunday November the 1st.
Board of Governors members are expected to arrive Friday 30 or Saturday 31st. The Board of Governors private meeting will be held on Sunday November the 1st.
SIMPLE AGENDA
November 1 – Sunday
09:30 Board of Governors private meeting
Evening: Cocktail
November 2 – Monday
09:30 Opening
14:00 Ring Officials and supervisors seminar in the main room
Evening: Awards dinner
November 3 – Tuesday
09:30 Ratings
Referees session
WBC Cares visit
Evening: Free
November 4 – Wednesday
09:30 Mandatory fights
Evening: Talent Show
November 5 – Thursday
09:30 Items of the agenda
Evening: Closing banquet
November 6 – Friday
Social activity general tour
* It is optional for anyone who wishes to depart on Friday November 6.
November 7
General departure
Please help the WBC with any information that you know of people attending the convention, because we need to anticipate how many people will attend the convention in China to be ready with all the budget and materials.
I am sure that we will have the pleasure to have you present in the traditional reunion of the world boxing community, all who have had so many great times, as well as done so much for boxing in past conventions that we must do it again.
Please accept my very best regards.
Mauricio Sulaiman
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.
