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The Universal Boxing Organization has already spread its
wings all around the world. With title fights in places
such as France, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt, Finland,
Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, USA, Serbia, Denmark and
Georgia, the UBO has truly developed into a global
sanctioning body.
Director and founder Philip Oswald feels that recent
changes in the directory will further establish the UBO
in the years to come:
“We have brought on board some very enthusiastic and
knowledgeable people to help take over where we might
have been lacking a bit in the past. Personally I have
not been able to dedicate as much time to the UBO as I
would have liked, and by appointing a new acting
president, as well as a new roster of commissioners,
representatives and agents, we are optimistic about the
future”,
said Oswald.
The new acting president is German businessman Joerg
Herzog, and Oswald has also appointed two new
vice-presidents to assist the “head honcho”. American
David Maizner, who will continue to act as UBO press
officer as well, and Director of the Pugilistic
Syndicate of Tanzania, Mr. Emmanuel Mlundwa, shares
duties as 1st and 2nd V.P. These
three, along with the additional team, enjoys the
complete confidence of the man who passionately calls
the UBO “his baby”:
“The Universal Boxing Organization is my baby, it really
is, and since I don’t have the time to take care of my
baby sufficiently, I am very pleased to have found
people who can. People who are not here because it pays
well, but because they are enthusiastic about the
developments we are going through, and the champions we
have and will have in the future.”
Restructuring of the directory is not the only changes
within the organization, and one of the new developments
is that UBO female title-fights are also possible in the
future. “We respect the female sex, so of course we
also accept that women are entitled to box and become
champions too”, Oswald shares.
Phil O., as he known among friends, reveals that a few
months of inactivity from December 2008 until early this
summer has been planned for a while as time to get the
house in proper order:
“We have slowed down our activities because of the
restructuring, but it looks like we could get a busy
second half of 2009. The changes will make us grow, and
realistically I think the UBO will be a part of the
world-wide boxing scene for many, many years”.
Oswald will in his role as director still be involved
with the management of the Universal Boxing
Organization, although on a lesser scale than
previously. He feels comfortable only assisting the new
team when necessary, and, as he enjoys telling them:
“U B O´ing me a good explanation if you don’t do a good
job”.
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