Mauricio Sulaimán Saldivar (born 30 December 1969) is a Mexican businessman and sports administrator. Sulaiman is, since February 11, 2014, the president of the Mexico based
World Boxing Council, which is, along with the United States based
International Boxing Federation
The International Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of four major organizations recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) which sanctions professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Counci ...
, the Panama based
World Boxing Association and the Puerto Rico based
World Boxing Organization, one of the four major international boxing championship recognizing groups. Before becoming president of the WBC, Sulaiman worked there as its general secretary.
Personal
Sulaimán is the son of the previous WBC president,
José Sulaimán, and of Marta Saldivar. He has two brothers (Hector and Jose Fernando-Jose Jr.) and two sisters (Lucy and Claudia).
Controversy
Sulaimán has recently come under fire for praising
Daniel Kinahan's work as a
boxing promoter
A promoter works with event production and entertainment industries to promote their productions, including in music and sports. Promoters are individuals or organizations engaged in the business of marketing and promoting live, or pay-per-view ...
. Kinahan is infamously known for being part of a powerful
Irish criminal syndicate run by his father,
Christy Kinahan
Christopher Vincent Kinahan, Sr. (born 23 March 1957) better known as Christy 'the Dapper Don' Kinahan; is an Irish drug dealerBreen, Stephen, "GANGSTERS' PARADISE" ''News of the World'' 21 February 2010 with convictions for ecstasy and heroin ...
and who is involved in a
violent war
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with another notorious gang, this one led by
Gerry "The Monk" Hutch. Recently, Kinahan, his father and his younger brother
were sanctioned by the
US government for their activities linked to
organized crime and had their assets frozen by both the US government and the
UAE. Sulaimán, who had met with Kinahan in
Dubai a week before the sanctions, denied having any affiliation with him, saying he was unaware that Kinahan was a high-ranking member of a powerful international
criminal syndicate.
WBC president says made ‘innocent mistake’ meeting Kinahan
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See also
* Gilberto Mendoza, Jr.
* List of Mexicans
External links
1969 births
Boxing in Mexico
Mexican businesspeople
Living people
Mexican people of Lebanese descent
Mexican people of Syrian descent
People from Mexico City
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