At the WBO Convention, Luis Perez, in charge of WBO rankings, has denounced the Dominican Republic for allegedly being used by Puerto Rican managers to pad the record of their boxers, by pitting Puerto Ricans against local Dominican fighters with losing records and many of them with no victories at all. Former WBO President Ramon Pina Acevedo, himself Dominican, said that this situation was tainting the good name of Dominican boxing.
Jose Rafael Lantigua, President of the Dominican Boxing Promotion, said that the declarations of Pina Acevedo were the result of misinformation and that there was actually a Dominican boxing revival.
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