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EDITORIAL : The Decline of Confidence in the California Athletic Commission By Granville Ampong PhilBoxing.com Sat, 26 Sep 2009  STAPLES CENTER, LOS ANGELES, California - I witnessed what took place of that glorious night at the Staples Center almost a year ago. It was glorious in the sense that a victory over in what could be deemed as an evil ploy and a potential infamy was about to unfold, had Antonio Margarito's illegal hand-wrapping remained unexposed! What if Nazim Richardson, Mosley's veteran trainer, failed his urging to convincingly pressure State Athletic Commission inspector Che Guevara, to unwrap the hands of Antonio Margarito just before he entered the ring in that eventful night at the Staples Center last January 24, 2009? There could have been no glory for Mosley thereafter. And, in fact, upon his knowledge of that controversial hard shell pads discovered atop of Margarito's fists as they were to be unwrapped for rewrapping as scrutinized, Mosley's confidence went sky high and his energy of madness and ingenuity in the ring surged but, of course, not in the case of the boxing public's confidence toward the California Athletic Commission. This said Athletic Commission must prove once more tonight that it can do its job without the urgings of other parties from two extremes. Cris Arreola versus Vitali Klitschko, for tonight's event at the Staples Center in their WBC Heavyweight Championship fight, and the undercards, should be a case through which the California Athletic Commission must lift those clouds of doubts in the minds of the aficionados and boxing fans about questions of incompetence over its authority in making sure fighters are truly cleared of illegal use of any kind and medically cleared of health issues. Notwithstanding the crescendo of criticisms that ushered out this year of having a fighter on a March 7 mixed martial arts card in Tulare, according to the letter of warning through Los Angeles Times dated September 25, 2009, allowed to fight without an HIV blood detection screening , the California Athletic Commission must distinguish its aggressive role in matters of safety for all the fighters. According to Dave Thorton, former director of the state of the medical board and current interim executive officer, the incident is "a lesson learned" for him and the commission and he promises that they "will do better in the future". And, hopefully, he said "this type of incident will not occur again". Meanwhile, the general public of sports and every citizen of the State of California have every right to ask the California Athletic Commission to achieve positive ends of its role in supervising and re-evaluating, if not intensely scrutinizing, the effectiveness of its protocol, that its team must do so to a degree the private party could not accomplish, and that the level of unreasonable waste of energy and abuse and slackness be limited. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Granville Ampong.  |
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