BOXING COMMISSIONS DECLARE WAR – ON EACH OTHER! BOXING ACTION IS AGAIN VINDICATED

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THE CRITICISM MADE BY BOXING ACTION ON THE MANNER IN WHICH BOXING COMMISSIONS CONDUCT THEIR BUSINESS HAS BEEN VINDICATED BY THE HEAVY DISPUTE PLACED IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN BY Mr. GREG SIRBCURRENT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE USA ASSOCIATION OF BOXING COMMISSIONS AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION SINCE 1990. Mr. SIRBHAS CALLED ON THE WBC, WBO, WBA AND IBF TO STOP SANCTIONING ALL TITLE FIGHTS IN GERMANY AND TO SEND A MESSAGE TO GERMAN BOXING AUTHORITIES WHO DON’T RESPECT THE FIGHTFAX NATIONAL SUSPENSION LIST.

We never believed we would be supporting Dereck Chisora following his outrageous behaviour of slapping the face Vitali Klitschko at their weigh-in and spitting water in the face of Wladimir Klitschko.

However, in democratic countries even the worst of humankind is allowed to be seen to be given justice in a properly convened court. Dereck Chisora is nowhere near being in that league. Therefore, despite behaving disgracefully there is no valid excuse for not allowing him to be legally represented and given the opportunity to put forward a proper defence to any allegation made against him.

Boxing Action was seriously disturbed at the manner in which one of the German boxing commissions Bund Deutscher Berufsboxe (BDB) failed to honour the mandatory requirement of justice being seen to be done.

Instead BDB scorned the demands of justice given to all, and this includes the disgraced Dereck Chisora,

David Haye was the colour commentator on the V. Klitschko – Chisora title bout for a TV channel. He had no official reason to be at the media conference that followed the ttle bout and there is evidence he baited Dereck Chisora.

Unfortunately, Dereck took the bait and there should be no doubt that the affray that resulted was not wanted by either boxer.

However, without any form of an announced Tribunal hearing the BDB President  Thomas Putz immediately announced Dereck would have US$50,000 of his purse withheld and be given a lifetime ban on boxing in Germany.

By contrast David Haye was told by President Putz that he would be welcomed back to Germany to box at any time.

This was despite the German police exonerating Dereck Chisora from any criminal behaviour but instead they  issued a statement they wished to interview David Haye on a criminal matter, or matters, related to the affray.

Before the police could interview David he left Germany early and instead of using his return ticket he went instead to Las Vegas. USA.

Boxing Action later discovered a contest had been provisionally been made for David Haye to challenge Vitali Klitschko for his World championship and Germany was the favoured country on which  the World title would be staged and BDB would be the German boxing commission that would licence the World Championship.

Boxing Action decided that no call would be put through to the modern day Sherlock Holmes to investigate the matter because, as the ace sleuth Sherlock might have said to his friend and colleague, “It’s elementary, my dear Watson.”

Instead we decided to send-out for a powerful air purifier. ~

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In May of this year Mr. Greg Sirb called for a ban on World title contests taking place in Germany.

He released the following statement;

As per the Oliver McCall fight in Frankfurt, Germany on May 16, 2012 – Mr. McCall was under Medical Suspension from the Mohegan Sun Athletic Commission since November 11, 2011 for a serious medical condition. 

This is at least the 3rd time the German Boxing Commission has allowed an American Boxer to compete in their country while under “Medical Suspension:” They also allowed Barry Butler and Lamont Brewster.

As World Boxing groups I really think it is time to STOP sanctioning any title fights in Germany 

This maybe the only pressure that will make this group take notice of how serious this situation is. No more title bouts – at least until they comply with the basic RULE that if a Boxer is on the Medical Suspension List they cannot fight.

It is simple when you have any US fighter competing in a foreign country it should be the responsibility of that foreign Boxing Commission to request a Fight Fax so that they can determine that boxers accurate record and if that Boxer is under any type of Suspension

At the up-coming ABC meeting I will be instructing all members NOT to comply with any requests from the German Boxing Commission – this Commission has totally ignored the National Suspension List and has put one too many Boxers at risk.

Gregory P. Sirb
PA State Athletic Commission.

May 23^rd 2012.

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The following reply has been made by Herr Thomas Pütz, President Bund Deutscher Berufsboxe: 

After reading the false public accusations of Mr. Greg Sirb regaring the sanctioning of fights in Germany involving suspended fighters I feel that in my position as president of the Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (BDB) and in order to preserve the BDB and boxing in Germany in general from any harm I have to defend the dignity of the BDB and therefore to clarify a couple of things.  

The BDB – internationally referred to as German Boxing Commission – is only sanctioning fights and allowing boxers to step into the ring when both contestants present valid home licenses and letters of their home commissions confirming that they are medically fit and allowed to participate in a professional boxing contest. In addition to that we have some of the best ringside physicians in the world working for the BDB who check and control the health of every fighter entering the ring before the weigh-in. Luckily, the world sanctioning bodies who have worked with the BDB for a long time and will surely continue working with the BDB in the future know that we are very strict in enforcing our rules and the BDB has never and will never allow boxers to enter the ring who are not medically cleared to compete in a fight. On the contrary, it has been the BDB who stripped the reigning German Champion from his belt because of his medical condition. We have been criticized, insulted and even sued because the health of the fighter was more important to us than the sanctioning fees we could have collected if we had allowed the champion to defend his title.

With this being said I can confirm that the fight between Oliver McCall and Francesco Pianeta has been supervised and sanctioned by the BDB. We had no obligations in sanctioning the fight because we have a written approval and confirmation from the Florida State Boxing Commission (Governor Rick Scott and Secretary Ken Lawson) that Oliver McCall is holder of a valid license (expiration date 05/11/16) and “not under any Florida suspension.” Correct me if I’m wrong but I always thought that suspensions by any US state would automatically be reported to the Commissions in all other States. If not, then this might rather be a problem between two US states than a problem caused by the BDB or in Germany. With all due respect I have to say that the BDB doesn’t even have a FightFax account because we rather trust in the reliability of all the international commissions we are working with and have been working with for decades than in a privately owned and run archive. So if we get an approval from a State commission stating that there is no suspension we have no reason to question this statement and do further investigation. I hope this helps to clarify all questions regarding the McCall vs. Pianeta fight. By the way, this fight was no title fight so taking it as a reason to ask for a ban on title fights doesn’t seem to make any sense to me.

Regarding the other references made by Mr. Sirb I have to acknowledge that he doesn’t seem to know that there are fundamental differences between the way boxing is organized in the United States and in Germany. Other than in the US where there is only one Athlethic or Boxing Commission in each state we don’t have a system like that over here. The BDB is the oldest and most important German Boxing Commission (and generally referred to when people speak about boxing in Germany) but there are also other commission and federations sanctioning fights in Germany.

Especially when talking about the cases of Barry Butler and Lamon Brewster I have to correct Mr. Sirb because the BDB – or as he puts it the German Boxing Commission – had nothing to do with the sanctioning of these fights.

Lamon Brewster fought against Wladimir Klitschko on July 7th, 2007 – this fight was not sanctioned by the BDB but by the GBO, a rather small commission the Klitschkos used to work with at that time; in the meantime Vitali and Wladimir returned to the BDB and their fights are sanctioned by us. In March and August 2009 and in January 2010, Brewster participated in three more fights in Germany (against Michael Sprott, Gbenga Oloukun and Robert Helenius) but all of these fights have been sanctioned by the Faustkämpferverband Austria (FVA), the Austrian Boxing Commission which is in charge of all fights promoted by Sauerland Events and has been for many years. The BDB cannot interfere with any decisions made by the FVA – although I’m pretty sure that the FVA would not allow fighters to step into the ring who have not been medically cleared. But as I said this is none of the BDB’s business.

As far as Barry Butler is concerned, his fight in Germany on November 29th, 2009 in Aachen has been supervised and sanctioned by the German Boxing Association (GBA), a rather small organization which is not member of the European Boxing Union and is therefore struggling for international recognition.

So before calling for a ban of title fights in Germany and before making false accusations towards the German Boxing Commission or boxing in Germany in general, Mr. Sirb should have looked into these details. The BDB is one of the oldest, most prestigious and most experienced boxing federations in Europe and in the world. We have sanctioned a lot of great world championship fights and seen many great champions. I hope that my explanation helps Mr. Sirb to understand the situation, to apologize for his false accusations and to distance himself from the intolerable comments and requests he made probably without knowledge of any details. I respectfully suggest that Mr. Sirb does a little more research next time before publicly making serious statements like the ones I had to respond to with this message.

Thomas Pütz
President Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer.

May, 24^th 2012