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In a stunning
turn of events, the French
Boxing Federation (FFB)
belatedly exposed the news
releases issued by the team of
former WBF womens world
flyweight champion Raja Amasheh
and the German Boxing Federation
(BDB) as blatant hoaxes and
leaves the female German fighter
looking embarrassed and with egg
on her face.
Amasheh was defending her title,
together with the WBC’s “Silver”
belt, on Oct. 11 last year in
Saarbrücken, Germany and had to
concede the titles together with
her undefeated professional
record to French challenger
Amira Hamzaoui by split
decision.
At the conclusion of the fight
two highly experienced WBF
judges outvoted an inexperienced
and new WBC judge. As a result,
Team Amasheh protested the
verdict and the WBC agreed by
revoking their sanctioning and
returning their “Silver” belt to
Amasheh.
Furthermore,
Team Amasheh claimed that the
WBC had overturned the decision,
ruling the bout a No Contest in
order to retain her undefeated
status. The BDB conned
boxrec.com by even reporting
this untruth, while the World
Boxing Federation turned down
Amasheh’s request of
“re-scoring” the fight.
The false claim of the judges’
decision being overturned made
worldwide headlines in the
internet and many German
newspapers also fell for the
hoax and printed this story
spread by Team Amasheh.
However, while only a few
journalists showed interest in
the truth, the FFB now published
the official response of the WBC
to their protest (in which they
banned the WBC from operating in
France) – and it clearly
demonstrates that in fact the
decision in favor of Hamzaoui
was never overturned by anyone.
Thus Hamzaoui remains the
winner, but the victim of a
devious manipulation in which
Team Amasheh played a central
role.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman
confirmed in his letter (send
from the office of the WBC
Executive Special Counsel
attorney Alberto A. Léon)
already on Dec. 10, 2014
unmistakably:
“The
German Boxing Commission (BDB),
which is the entity that
sanctioned the championship
fight, declared it a No Contest.
At the outset it is important
that you understand that the
local commission was the
authority that actually reversed
the result. The WBC just
acknowledged and accepted the
local commission’s decision. In
fact, the WBC had ordered an
immediate rematch soon after the
championship fight, and before
the local commission reversed
the result.”
This is in full accordance with
the WBC rule 2.3., which clearly
forbids the WBC to touch the
result if they revoke
sanctioning of a contest. This
is also what Sulaiman confirmed
to a journalist, whom he told in
writing:
“The
WBC was notified by the local
boxing authority (…) about the
change to a No Contest.”
It hardly is possible to find
more clear-cut words to expose
the plot of Team Amasheh.
However, at the same time, BDB
president Thomas Pütz, via the
BDB’s lawyer, confirmed in the
ongoing court case in Germany
that the BDB never made a
decision with regards to the
verdict of the judges and not
even was the recipient of a
protest by Team Amasheh.
Amazingly,
Pütz even had the nerve to lodge
a sworn affidavit to the effect
that he blames the WBC to be the
entity who changed the result
from SD Hamzaoui to NC. One may
speculate now on BDB’s Pütz’
true role in this conspiracy, to
which extend he is familiar with
boxing rules and whether Pütz is
aware of the criminal
liabilities of not telling the
truth under oath.
While the Kiel country court
will decide on coming Monday if
they grant Amira Hamzaoui an
injunction forcing the BDB to
admit the truth – that in
reality nobody ever changed the
result of the contest – the
whole case will surely remain in
the hands of lawyers and
possibly even law enforcement
agencies.
Marcus
Bartscht, attorney for Amira
Hamzaoui, stated: “Now that the
truth is out and the
manipulation has been made
public, I will sit down with
Amira to consider her options.
We may well go to a civil court
hereafter, because it was the
BDB who advised boxrec.com to
change a result which was in
effect never changed.”
While the sport of boxing cannot
be termed a winner in this whole
affair, Raja Amsheh and her team
are now disgraced – as sour
losers and having triggered a
disgraceful scheme to make the
public believe that her proper
loss came as a result of
wrongdoing by the WBF judges,
instead of just that her
opponent simply beat her in the
eyes of two of the three people
who really mattered.
Her positive achievements – and
Amasheh was a two-weight WBF
world champion! – will
unfortunately now be
overshadowed forever by the
image of a fighter and her
trainer who tried to manipulate
herself out of a loss by
detestable actions.
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