Season 5: #16 Mauricio Sulaiman

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The head of the WBC reflects on his time in boxing, including growing up in the the WBC – which was created by his father Don Jose. As a child, Mauricio recalls the likes of Don King and Muhammad Ali visiting the house...

Sulaiman talks about the controversies, the state of boxing, the WBC almost going bankrupt and much more besides, showing a side not often seen in his interviews.

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0:00.0	My father always told us, you never look down at anyone, you never look up at anyone.
0:05.0	We are all the same and everyone has a job to do.
0:11.6	Whether you are a shoe shine boy or you are a president or a king or a lawyer, whatever
0:18.8	you are in life, you are working and you have to respect every single person.
0:25.6	So every single day, when you think you have resolved a big controversy, you go to bed
0:33.7	happy, the next day you wake up and there is another one, so it is a complicated and you
0:40.8	can never please everyone.
0:44.2	There are a few things, first of all it is a reputation, it is a black cloud that is always
0:53.2	on top of boxing.
1:23.6	Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories.
1:25.6	This week I am joined by the head of the WBC, Maurizio Suleiman.
1:29.8	Maurizio became the leader of the WBC after the passing of his father, Don Jose, who I
1:35.2	used to see a lot of in Las Vegas and here I tried to get another side of Maurizio.
1:39.8	Maurizio, the fight fan and boxing person, rather than Maurizio, the boxing politician.
1:45.5	This interview was done in the midst of the bitcon of Ben Saga when no one was saying much
1:50.3	at all and as always is the case with this series of interviews.
1:54.4	I try not to focus too much on current stuff because this is an archive that is designed
1:59.6	to be timeless and not littered with date stamps.
2:02.5	I am sure I will get Maurizio down the line again and I have questioned him heavily in
2:06.6	the past on many of the topics we have covered in this podcast for written pieces.
2:12.2	I really hope you enjoy this from Maurizio and as always, huge thanks to my sponsors
2:16.6	Hansen Lee Resourcing.
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