The World Boxing Council celebrates it’s fifty third anniversary today

The historic Inauguration happened at High Noon plus sixty minutes in Mexico City, at the now extinct Prado Alffer Hotel.

There at that monumental occasion was our Honorary Lifetime President, Don Jose Sulaiman, embarking on a path to become the greatest boxing commissioner of all time.

Witnessing the historic moment, there were representatives of local and international commissions from 11 countries.

Nat Fleischer the then Director of Ring Magazine and author of more than 60 boxing books, legendary promoter George Parnassus, pioneering promoter Aileen Eaton, plus commissioners, boxers, managers, and many more people inextricably linked to the world of boxing.

The WBC was created in México thanks to and during the Presidential era of great leader and avid boxing fan, Adolfo Lopez Mateos. The main organizers were the then commissioners of this city: Mr. Luis Spota Saavedra, Professor Ramón Velázquez González and Secretary Rafael Barradas Osorio.

Onslow Fane, from Enganld, was elected as the first WBC President, he would be almost immediately followed by Mr. Luis Spota, and he was succeeded by Mr. Justiniano Montano and then Professor Ramon G. Velázquez, Jose Sulaiman Chagnon and now our current President, Mauricio Sulaimán Saldívar.