Sanman promotions boxers Criz Laurente, JC Mananquil, and former unified world champion Marlon Tapales, International matchmaker and MP Promotions President Sean Gibbons and UFC President Dana White.
Gibbons questions BoxRec’s credibility for ghosting legitimate fights
World’s top boxing promoters questioned BoxRecord’s credibility for not recording over a hundred important sanctioned fights including the big victories of former unified world champion Marlon Tapales and rising star Criz Laurente recently in Thailand without any valid reasons.
Known for being the respected world’s leading digital database boxing record keeping body, BoxRec has found itself in hot water all over the world after they were accused of depriving the public for not recording what needs to be recorded.
Manny Pacquiao’s MP Promotions President Sean Gibbons questioned BoxRec’s authority for not counting the fights in Thailand last September when Tapales scored a technical knockout win againstNirun Baonok to capture the WBF International Featherweight title.
Laurente won via third-round knockout against Benchalong Tanbu to get the WBF Intercontinental Lightweight title also that date, but it did not go through the BoxRec’s record without any valid reason.
“BoxRec is no longer the same record boxing keeping body that we knew before, they are depriving the public of the full knowledge, results, and true record of a pro boxer because they are commercializing their site. They just list what they only wanted,” Gibbons said.
“That is not BoxRec, that is absolute shame. This is not pro boxing, and not a pro fighter thing. We are surprised that it did not just happen in Asia but also in America. They are not counting fights in Thailand and other countries that are legitimate fights promoted properly,” he added.
Gibbons claimed that hundreds of legitimate bouts sanctioned by various commissions from Thailand, India, Dubai, Mexico, China, and to other countries were not recorded by BoxRecord following their unexplainable judgment for the past few years.
“BoxRec must know their role as the world’s digital boxing record keeping body, and not as a jury or judge that decides which fight should be recorded or not. All legitimate sanctioned fights must be recorded unconditionally by BoxRec, and that is their job,” Gibbons explained.
Sanman promotions head JC Mananquil also criticized BoxRec for ghosting a legitimate fight by a unified former world champion Tapales, saying when did the BoxRec has learned to act like a commission.
“For 26 years, BoxRec serves as a digital boxing record keeping body. But we are surprised that they did not count Marlon’s latest fights and Laurente’s bout as well. There were many fans that watched those bouts. So, they expected the results to come out as well in BoxRec,” Mananquil said.
International managers and promoters from Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, and China, meanwhile, also expressed their dismay to BoxRec’s unacceptable unfair treatment to various promotions as world’s digital boxing record keeping entity.
“The most frustrating part is that BoxRec initially updated the fights, but they were removed again the very next day. Even more surprisingly, some of our older fights from four or five months ago have also been removed,” Jordan’s boxing manager Mohammad Nabil Mohammad Alawneh said.
“Please remember these are real athletes with real dreams and futures. We are not asking for favors. We are asking for fairness, transparency, and the opportunity to develop professional boxing in Jordan,” he added.
Middle East Professional Boxing founder Jose Mohan was also surprised that BoxRec had removed without explanation four MEPB sanctioned fights and accused the record boxing keeping body as “more of a regulator than a record keeper.”
“Every fighter deserves an accurate record, regardless of who promotes them,” he said.
Thai Eaung Laosuwanwat, the owner galaxy promotions, has challenged BoxRec to remove the records of his boxers from their website if they will not correct all the misinformations that are damaging to his fighters.
“I find the inclusion of incomplete records for my boxers on your platform to be professionally damaging, as it misleads the public,” he said. “If you are unable to rectify these records at once, formally request the removal of my boxers' entire 40-year fight history from your website.”
Chinese boxing promoter Liu Gang, known for being a major part of successful hosting of World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, and International Boxing Federation in China, slammed BoxRec for replacing his name as a promoter from 2016 to 2023 without valid explanations.
“Parties involved have allegedly issued directives to boxing gyms, clubs, and fighters across China, threatening to blacklist them and jeopardize their boxing careers if they do not comply with BoxRec’s new policy. Such threats are unreasonable and unacceptable,” Liu said.
With BoxRec removing some bouts in their database, FightFax remains the other legitimate digital boxing record keeping body in the world.
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