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GOA, India -- Asian soccer leaders rebelled against FIFA on Tuesday, calling off their extraordinary congress and postponing the election of three representatives to the new FIFA Council.The Asian Football Confederation said the congress lasted only 27 minutes after member countries voted 42-1 against the agenda. The decision comes two days after FIFA barred a Qatari candidate from running for a spot on the council.The congress in Goa had been called to elect three officials to join existing AFC members from Japan, Kuwait and Malaysia, as well as President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, on the 37-member FIFA Council.The congress has spoken with one voice and that has been clear for us all to see, Sheikh Salman said. FIFA President Gianni Infantino, I am not sure if you have been at a shorter congress but I think you can see the strength of opinion in the room.Only Singapore voted in favor of the agenda. The countrys candidate, Zainudin Nordin, was set to benefit from his Qatari opponent being excluded.The increase of the FIFA Council to 37 members, chaired by Infantino, was a key part of reforms at the scandal-hit world body and was approved on the same day in February that the former UEFA secretary general beat Sheikh Salman for the presidency.Today the AFC and Asian football has shown solidarity, Sheikh Salman said. The message has been clear to everyone both inside and outside Asia.The AFC later held an emergency executive committee meeting, where Chinese candidate Zhang Jian was added to the committee until the next extraordinary congress. Dates and a venue for the rescheduled election will have to be ratified by FIFA.FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert earlier this month opened a case against Qatar Football Association vice president Saoud Al-Mohannadi, who was one of four men seeking one of the new seats from Asia on world soccers ruling council.FIFA prosecutors asked Eckert to ban Al-Mohannadi for no less than two years and six months for not telling the truth and not cooperating properly with an ethics investigation. But Al-Mohannadi said at the time he was confident of a fair review and that he had cooperated candidly. The case does not involve Qatars 2022 World Cup bid, but no further details were provided by the FIFA ethics committee.FIFA announced Sunday it had barred Al-Mohannadi from running in the election based on an ethics committee report, leaving Zhang, the Chinese soccer association secretary general, running against Ali Kafashian of Iran and Nordin of Singapore for two of the three FIFA Council seats from Asia.The third seat from Asia has been reserved for female candidates, with Moya Dodd of Australia running against Han Un Gyong of North Korea and Mafuza Akhter of Bangladesh.The AFC president, who ran for the top job in soccer against Infantino in the wake of the scandals that rocked FIFA last year, said stalling the election wasnt designed to delay any reform agenda.There is no argument between us and FIFA, Sheikh Salman said. I think we will be the first supporters of the FIFAs reforms ... but we need to be fair and just as well.It is unclear what the effect of Tuesdays turmoil will have on an Oct. 13-14 meeting of the FIFA Council in Zurich with Asia now below its quota of delegates.The session was set to look in detail at the 2026 World Cup, with the United States and Canada among potential hosts. Infantino made an election campaign promise to add eight teams to create a 40-team tournament.The issue of when Asia could next host a World Cup is also up for debate with China eager to bid as soon as possible. A current FIFA rule that bars confederations from back-to-back hosting means China can next be a candidate for 2030.However, FIFA could also propose a two-tournament gap for confederations -- knocking European bidders out of the 2026 contest but also pushing back Chinas ambitions to at least 2034. Bogdan Bogdanovic Jersey . 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Canelo Alvarezs return to the junior middleweight division against Liam Smith last month generated close to 300,000 pay-per-view buys, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya told ESPN.com.?Headlining an HBO PPV card on Mexican Independence Day weekend at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 17, Mexicos Alvarez scored a ninth-round knockout of Englands Smith to win another junior middleweight world title after having vacated his middleweight title.At 300,000 buys, the fight grossed approximately $20 million in domestic PPV revenue, although roughly half goes to the cable and satellite operators.Were going to wind up doing close to 300,000 homes, which is great when you combine that with almost 52,000 fans we had in the crowd, De La Hoya said. Were very happy, extremely happy with the numbers.However, the total was a drop of about half of what the 26-year-old Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) generated in his previous fight, a crushing sixth-round knockout of Amir Khan in defense of the middleweight title on May 5 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and about one-third of the 900,000-plus buys he generated for a unanimous decision win against Miguel Cotto last November to win the middleweight world title at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.However, while Cotto is one of boxings biggest stars and Khan is a very prominent name with wide recognition among American boxing fans, Smith was fighting in the United States for the first time, never had previously been on American television, was a gargantuan underdog and essentially was unknown.Obviously, nobody had ever heard of Liam Smith, and when you have to try and sell a pay-per-view fight with somebody that nobody has ever heard of, you have a tough job ahead of you, De La Hoya said. We were able to attract the fans who love boxing, and they were treated to a special fight. When it was all said and done it was a terrific fight, a lot of action.dddddddddddd.While some will view the figures as a sign perhaps of diminishing star power for Alvarez, who has been heavily criticized for avoiding a megafight with unified middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin -- a bout De La Hoya said they hope to make for September 2017 -- De La Hoya said he did not put any stock in that.De La Hoya, a Hall of Famer and one of the biggest pay-per-view stars in boxing history during his 1992 to 2008 fighting career, pointed out that even as popular as he was, when he faced a few lesser or unknown opponents along the way, sometimes his PPV totals suffered.The fight with Smith was Alvarezs sixth as a pay-per-view headliner. In addition to Smith, Khan and Cotto, he also faced Floyd Mayweather in a 2013 loss that sold 2.2 million pay-per-views, third all time, and set the PPV revenue record of $150 million until it was broken last year by Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao.Alvarez also headlined against Erislandy Lara and Alfredo Angulo in 2014, each of which generated more than 300,000 buys.Alvarez, who plans to move up to the middleweight division limit of 160 pounds after fighting his previous middleweight bouts at a catch weight of 155 pounds, is out until at least early 2017 because he suffered an avulsion fracture of his right thumb early in the Smith fight.If his thumb heals on schedule, De La Hoya said Alvarez could fight in the first quarter of next year and then plans to fight again in May, with a potential fight against Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) in September.Im sure when Canelo decides to fight at 160 next year there will be plenty of name fighters and opponents who will bring excitement and great fights and the fans will acknowledge that and, once again, he will do even bigger pay-per-view numbers, De La Hoya said. 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