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Quotes from Dr. C K Wu, Chairman of the World Series of Boxing, President of AIBA PhilBoxing.com Tue, 14 Dec 2010 Dr C K Wu quotes - December 2010 What has the feedback from the launch of the World Series of Boxing been? The initial reaction to the World Series of Boxing has been very positive. We had anticipated this, since in many fields people were waiting for the competition to start before forming an opinion. Now that we have shown that the WSB is real and it works, people are starting to take a keen interest in the competition. The uptake among fans and the media has been excellent. You attended Beijing?s first home match. What were your impressions? It was exciting to see the first competitive WSB boxing. I had already seen one test event and an exhibition match during the AIBA Congress in October, but this was the first time that the teams were genuinely competing for the championship and the individual boxers were thinking ahead to the possibility of direct qualification for the London 2012 Olympic Games through the individual championships. You can see this in the quality of the bouts: the boxers are obliged to come out strong from the start, which makes for excellent bouts and a fantastic match for fans, with five bouts featuring the world?s best boxers over two hours of competition. Have there been any surprises? There is a very good mix of boxers from all over the world competing in the WSB, so it is interesting to see how some of them have adapted to living in a different country and training with boxers from several countries. For the boxers, it is an excellent learning experience. Since the boxing squads change for every match, the teams will need a certain amount of time to establish themselves within their respective conferences, so it?s too early to talk of ?surprises?. The teams in the US also need to learn to take into account an external factor: competing at over 2000 metres altitude in Mexico City is not the same as competing in Memphis, where the altitude is barely 100 metres. How do you see the rest of the regular season developing? Once there has been a couple of full rotations in each squad, we will begin to have a better idea of the strength of each team. This will give us an idea of which teams could be going through to the play-off stage. The individual ranking will also start to take on much more importance, since this is what will be used to determine which two boxers meet in the individual championships for a chance to win direct qualification for the London 2012 Olympic Games. We have also learned a lot from the first couple of match weekends. After all, the WSB is a completely new tournament so there is plenty of fine tuning to be done. As the competition develops, I expect corporate interest to develop, allowing the teams to sign up new sponsors. We have already seen interest from TV channels wishing to broadcast the WSB in countries outside the franchise territories (which are covered by the host broadcaster agreements). What is your vision for the development of the WSB now that the competition has started? Our aim was to start the competition with a maximum of twelve teams in three conferences. I sincerely hope that we can already expand the tournament after the first season. Since the launch, we have had expressions of interest from several parties wishing to set up new teams. But I would also like to see new conferences: Africa and South America have great potential, the former because of the numerous African boxers who are already competing in the WSB and the latter of course because of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.  |
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