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Post by Todd Bykerk on Aug 18, 2014 10:28:04 GMT -5
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Post by Dee Williams on Aug 29, 2014 13:31:03 GMT -5
Ryan Wissow needs to behave more responsibly if he expects the women's boxing community in the US, or anywhere else, to take him seriously. The language he used to describe American women in general and Kaliesha West in particular were offensive in any context ... and were totally inappropriate from anyone who aspires to a position of influence in a women's sport. Ava is not alone in speaking out about this and I will not be surprised if other US boxers boycott Wissow's sanctioning business.
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Post by Dee Williams on Sept 4, 2014 10:35:23 GMT -5
I was talking about Wissow's demeaning and trashy comments about American women boxers and his ethnic slurs directed at individual boxers, as was Ava Knight ... those were 100 per cent inappropriate from the head of a women's boxing sanctioning body. You can't defend or "paper over" his irresponsible behavior by trying to change the subject to promoters or to UFC, Dana White or whatever. Boxers who dump WIBA belts in the trash and/or boycott Wissow's "business" have now been given very clear reasons for doing so, IMO.
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Post by Dee Williams on Sept 5, 2014 8:03:40 GMT -5
I was talking about Wissow's demeaning and trashy comments about American women boxers and his ethnic slurs directed at individual boxers, as was Ava Knight ... those were 100 per cent inappropriate from the head of a women's boxing sanctioning body. You can't defend or "paper over" his irresponsible behavior by trying to change the subject to promoters or to UFC, Dana White or whatever. Boxers who dump WIBA belts in the trash and/or boycott Wissow's "business" have now been given very clear reasons for doing so, IMO. Sorry DEE-O, but I have NOT read anything from Ryan that you refer to. TD Then you don't know what we are all talking about but you insist on adding your opinions anyway. We do not intend to further publicize Wissow's trash talk itself because it was offensive. You do know about Google by now, Tom De Napoli?? |
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Post by Dee Williams on Sept 6, 2014 21:11:06 GMT -5
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Post by Dee Williams on Sept 8, 2014 8:57:42 GMT -5
This thread could spin off in many directions at once if Todd's "footnotes" take over from the original topic. Please let's keep the thread about what he originally posted about, i.e. Ava Knight's calling out WIBA Prez Ryan Wissow for remarks about female boxers that Wissow made online (last June on his Facebook page and on Twitter) and about the movement by several US female boxers, including Ava Knight, Kaliesha West, Melissa Hernandez, Shelly Vincent and the Serrano sisters, to boycott the WIBA's belts because of those remarks.
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Post by Dee Williams on Sept 8, 2014 22:03:59 GMT -5
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