Without even realising it, Teresa Perozzi was named NABC World Middleweight Champion yesterday morning ? and her new belt will be in the mail soon.

With the Association of Boxing Commissions president Tim Lueckenhoff apparently washing his hands of the row between WIBC?s Don (Moose) Lewis and promoter Boxu Potts over whether Perozzi?s victory in Trindad 13 days ago was valid, NABC president Ed Hutchison believed the Bermudian?s crown was null and void, so offered his instead.

But neither Perozzi ? nor Trinidadian promoter Boxu Potts who put on the fight in which Perozzi beat Scroller Carrington in the sixth round ? had been informed of the ABC?s apparent decision leaving the frustrated boxer once again in limbo over her champion status.

And Potts, who had originally approached the NABC, revealed that a second sanctioning body were on the verge of giving Perozzi a world champion billing, which could leave her a double or even a triple world champion by the end of the month.

?I just don?t know what?s going on,? said Perozzi, after reading in the morning headlines that she had lost her bout and then being told by she had got a different one instead ? or as well.

?This is getting very frustrating. I did what I had to do and now all these questions are being asked and stories are coming out, it?s difficult to know what to think.

?I am learning more from you than I am from the people involved, I don?t what is happening to be honest.

?I know that I won that fight and I know that I am the WIBC world champion until I am told differently. To be honest I don?t care whether it is the WIBC, the WBA, the NABC, the ABC, the 1-2-3, whatever it is I have earned the right to be a world champion and I am the world champion.

?I am the first Bermudian to have a world title and they can?t just change history by suddenly taking it away from me.?

She added that she had been approached by a lawyer and was ?considering her options?.

Although the ABC has apparently removed Perozzi?s WIBC crown, the Trinidad & Tobago Boxing Board have yet to submit a report to that regulatory body and Potts claims the sport?s regulators are acting prematurely.

?The ABC can?t take away the crown, nothing like that can have happened already because they haven?t received a report yet,? said Potts, who revealed that another one of the fighters from that night, Iva Weston, has hired a lawyer to get her belt back.

?This man Don (Moose) Lewis is going to be in the sanctioning graveyard by the end of this, and the WIBC is going to be history in the Caribbean and it?s going to be history, full stop.

?Whether or not Teresa stays as WIBC champion, she is now also the NABC champion and there is another body onboard who is going to make an announcement when the Trinidad Board makes their announcement.

?Teresa is probably better off with the NABC, they are the people I want to work with now and they are people I want to work with to get her a world title defence in Bermuda in November.?

Regardless of whether or not Perozzi is still the WIBC world champion ? and calls to the ABC and WIBC were not returned yesterday ? she is definitely the NABC world champion after Hutchison moved to intervene in the row.

?A fighter gets paid to fight the person in front of them to the best of their ability for the time allowed,? said Hutchison, himself a former pro.

?If a fighter performs well enough to win, the one thing that can never be taken away from them is the certainty of their victory.

?In the case of a title contest the same should be true for the certainty of championship recognition. On September 23rd, 2005 at the Jean Pierre Complex, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, however, the certainty of championship recognition failed.

?Like all participants in championship fights, Jizelle Salandy, Pamela London, Iva Weston, and Teresa Perozzi put their personal safety and professional careers on the line that evening for themselves, for their fans,and for the sport of boxing.

?Unlike most winners of championship contests, however, their championships were declared ?not valid? and they were left with no recognition

?Failing to honour the personal courage, sacrifice and accomplishment of professional fighters who put everything on the line and did everything asked of them is unacceptable.

?Effective immediately Teresa Perozzi is recognised as the NABC women?s world middleweight champion.

The accomplishment of each of these brave athletes is not in dispute. Neither is their status of champion.?

And Bermudians will be able to see Perozzi?s fight with Carrington on Saturday, October 15 on pay-per-view. The details of the package are still being put together by ZBM and Cablevision but the programme is also set to include her bout at CedarBridge Academy earlier this year where she was controversially beaten by Monica Nunez, a fighter Perozzi is desperate to take on again in a rematch.