The WBA light heavyweight champion also doesn’t understand the WBC’s position, still turning a blind eye to the obvious.
Russian Dmitry Bivol asked a topical question that has concerned all sports fans for a long time. The representative of the aggressor country, like most fans, does not understand why Artur Beterbiev has not been suspended from boxing.
The WBA light heavyweight champion thinks it is unfair that the WBC has refused to sanction his fights while there is a war going on in Ukraine. But the sanctions do not apply to another Russian, Beterbiev, making him a Canadian.
“It doesn’t bother me because, to be honest, it’s funny. Beterbiev is still Russian. Why is he allowed to box, but I’m not? Okay, he lives in Canada, and I was born in Kyrgyzstan.
If you were born there, you are a citizen of this country. I spent some time there. I spend a lot of time in the US, and last year I was in Russia for less than four months. This is not the main problem. I don’t know what their problem is,” Bivol told Boxing News.
The President of the WBC declared that his organization will not sanction the fights of the Russians until the end of the war in Ukraine. However, Mauricio Suleiman said that Beterbiev, who has a Canadian passport, does not fall under this definition.
Source: korrespondent
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