Sulaiman disappointed with Sergio Martinez’s comments

By Michael Collins: WBC president Jose Sulaiman is reportedly upset with the criticism that he’s received from former World Boxing Council middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, who is disgusted with Sulaiman and the WBC for not forcing WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to give him a fight after Sulaiman had earlier said he was going to make Chavez Jr. fight Martinez.

Sulaiman then for some reason let Chavez Jr. take a fight against Marco Antonio Rubio instead of the Martinez bout. And Martinez’s promoter Bob Arum is already talking about matching Chavez Jr. up against someone else after the Rubio fight, and then Antonio Margarito after that. Martinez won’t be getting a fight against Chavez Jr. next or anytime soon unless Sulaiman forces him or strips him of his title. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen, and Arum seems to be going on as if it’s a done deal that the WBC won’t force Chavez Jr. to fight Martinez.

Speaking with theboxingtribune.com, Sulaiman said “One of the several feelings of sadness that kept me low for a few days was the reason of a boxer Sergio Martinez, who blasted the WBC and me with his uncontrollable mouth, when I had always thought of him as a gentleman, after the WBC was the one and the only once that gave to him ALL opportunities to become what he is.”

Sulaiman seems like he doesn’t have a clue about his part in all of this. Either that or he’s playing innocent. I can see how it would be good for Sulaiman if Martinez had kept his mouth shut about Chavez Jr. going around him and fighting Rubio when he had been ordered by the WBC. Martinez not only didn’t get the Chavez Jr. fight, he didn’t even get a step aside fee, which is normally done when a champion wants to fight another opponent. Martinez just ignored completely and it looks like he’s going to stay ignored unless the WBC does anything to force Chavez Jr. to give Martinez the rematch.