By Erika Montoya

After years of refusing to perform title unifications with other organizations, World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman recognized that unifications are needed for the sake of boxing.

Sulaiman feels that after a fighter cleans out his division, new challenges will be needed. The WBC President pointed out super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz, welterweight and super welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather and bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka as examples of where title unifications should take place in the near future.

"The purpose of allowing unifications is to give boxing what it needs. Sometimes the ranked challengers can´t do anymore than they have already done. In these cases you understand that the boxer needs to progress and grow. They need to compete with other champions. Leo Santa Cruz, Mayweather and Yamanaka fall in this category," Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com.

Erika Montoya is a sports journalist for Milenio Diario/Huffingtonpost Voces/ ESPN You can follow her on Twitter @LaKiks