Suarez urges WBO to take action

The camp of Charly Suarez, the Filipino fighter nobody wants to have a piece of, has filed a complaint with the World Boxing Organization (WBO).

The formal letter to the WBO was forwarded by Suarez’s manager Ric Navalta, who is pushing for the governing body to uphold the right of his boxer.

Suarez is the mandatory challenger to WBO super-featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete but the Mexican champion’s promotional team, Top Rank, has arranged a unification fight with Eduardo Nuñez, also from Mexico.

Nuñez has the International Boxing Federation 130-pound strap.

Navalta insists that this matchup is contradictory to what the WBO had ordered last June when it installed Suarez as the mandatory to Navarrete’s title following the controversial ending of the Navarrete-Suarez match held last May in San Diego.

In that fight, Suarez was declared loser technical decision when referee Ed Collantes ruled that a clash of heads — and not a legal blow — opened a hideous cut on Navarrete’s eyebrow.

Under the rules, whoever is ahead on the scorecards at the end of the fight wins and all three judges had scores in favor of Navarrete.

But since the cut was caused by a legitimate punch, Suarez should have been the winner by technical knockouts.

The California State Athletic Commission even reversed the technical decision win by Navarrete to a No -Contest after a review and the WBO stated that an immediate rematch be staged.

“We want that Charly’s rights as the mandatory challenger be observed,” said Navalta during a Q&A that also included Suarez and lead trainer Delfin Boholst.

“We have faith in the WBO that the rematch will be observed,” he added.

Still, Navalta swears that whatever the WBO rules, the team will accept so they can “move forward.”

Suarez, who turns 37 next year, has an unbeaten record of 18-0 with ten knockouts.