The WBC President has no plans to disqualify the boxer, although he promised to do so sooner.
There are exceptions to the rules. Despite promising to remove all Russians from the ratings, the WBC has backed down and defended some athletes from the aggressor country.
So, according to the president of the organization, Mauricio Suleiman, the sanctions will certainly not affect Artur Beterbiev. The functionary believes that the WBC, WBO and IBF light heavyweight champion is not a Russian, but a Canadian.
“The fact is that Beterbiev has Canadian citizenship. He has been living in Canada for 15 years.
His children were born there, they have Canadian passports. Beterbiev has a Canadian boxing license. Therefore, we consider it out of this scenario.
In a similar situation, we will allow all Russian boxers living abroad and condemned the war to fight.
This is different than when you live in Russia and have a Russian boxing license. We are open.
If any boxer wants to have his case reviewed, we will organize a case-by-case procedure,” Suleiman said in a comment on iD Boxing’s YouTube channel.
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