From: WBC President Jose Sulaiman
Mexico City- “The World Boxing Council is very pleased to celebrate its 45th anniversary with a tremendous boxing event in Las Vegas on Saturday, February 16.
“I am very proud of WBC middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik and our former world champion Jermain Taylor, as well as Top Rank and DiBella Entertainment, for accepting to abide by the WBC Rules and Regulations with respect to the Pavlik-Taylor rematch, as it is an over-the-weight bout but involves the WBC champion.
“Several rules apply to this very important rematch, including Rule 1.22 which says: ‘The WBC Board of Governors, with a majority voting, may grant special authorization to allow a WBC champion to engage in a non-title 10 or 12-round bout.’
“The WBC will present a medal of honor to the winner of the fight, which will be officially sanctioned by the WBC.
“It gives me great satisfaction to see the loyalty to the WBC of these two boxers, both of whom have had very long relationships with us and built their careers using our affiliated titles as stepping stones to get to the highest levels of their careers today.
“Also on the card is WBC super flyweight world champion Cristian Mijares, one of the most solid champions in the world today, who will defend the title against former Olympian Jose Navarro.
“The Mijares-Navarro fight will be the WBC’s 1647th world title bout, and the 262nd WBC world title bout in the State of Nevada .”
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