WikiLeaks implicates Mayorga in rape case cover-up!
Posted on Jan 4, 2011
WikiLeaks implicates Mayorga in rape case cover-up! | Boxing Futures
Former welterweight and light-middleweight champion Ricardo Mayorga has been implicated in a WikiLeaks cable for cutting a deal with the Nicaraguan government to protect him in a rape case.
A sporting hero in his home country Nicaragua, Mayorga shot to fame in 2003 after shock defeats over Vernon Forrest in which he unified and defended the WBA and WBC welterweight crowns.
But in a secret cable from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, the nation’s leftist government is said to have ceased on an ‘opportunity to blackmail’ Mayorga after he was accused of raping a young woman in a hotel in September 2004, one month before his fight with Felix Trinidad.
According to the document, Daniel Ortega, the head of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) government, ‘agreed to protect the boxer in the courts if he would give the party a large portion of his international boxing winnings and "advertise" for Daniel in public.’
Following the alleged fixing of the trial, the document states that, ‘much of Mayorga's winnings now reportedly go to Ortega, and when Mayorga fought in Chicago in August 2005, he dedicated the fight to Daniel, wore the FSLN colors, and flashed the number of the FSLN slot on the Nicaraguan electoral ballot to the international media.’
Mayorga, who is slated to face Miguel Cotto for the WBA light-middleweight title in Las Vegas on March 12, has vehemently denied all the allegations, claiming that the cable is ‘absolutely not true’.
Posted on Jan 4, 2011
WikiLeaks implicates Mayorga in rape case cover-up! | Boxing Futures
Former welterweight and light-middleweight champion Ricardo Mayorga has been implicated in a WikiLeaks cable for cutting a deal with the Nicaraguan government to protect him in a rape case.
A sporting hero in his home country Nicaragua, Mayorga shot to fame in 2003 after shock defeats over Vernon Forrest in which he unified and defended the WBA and WBC welterweight crowns.
But in a secret cable from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, the nation’s leftist government is said to have ceased on an ‘opportunity to blackmail’ Mayorga after he was accused of raping a young woman in a hotel in September 2004, one month before his fight with Felix Trinidad.
According to the document, Daniel Ortega, the head of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) government, ‘agreed to protect the boxer in the courts if he would give the party a large portion of his international boxing winnings and "advertise" for Daniel in public.’
Following the alleged fixing of the trial, the document states that, ‘much of Mayorga's winnings now reportedly go to Ortega, and when Mayorga fought in Chicago in August 2005, he dedicated the fight to Daniel, wore the FSLN colors, and flashed the number of the FSLN slot on the Nicaraguan electoral ballot to the international media.’
Mayorga, who is slated to face Miguel Cotto for the WBA light-middleweight title in Las Vegas on March 12, has vehemently denied all the allegations, claiming that the cable is ‘absolutely not true’.