Team Usyk joins Wladimir Klitschko in condemning WBA's 'greed' as Russian fighters reinstated 🔴 Exclusive from Kat_Lucas_ via iPaperSport
and Gilberto Ramirez in 2022, was told he was free to fight but would not be allowed to display the Russian flag or play his country’s national anthem.
IBA President Umar Kremlev welcomed the WBA’s backtracking, saying that “sport should exist outside of politics… I am glad that WBA leadership shares this principle”. He added that, contrary to the WBA’s previous stance as dictated to Bivol, the IBA would allow Russian athletes to fight under the flag and play their national anthem.
Wladimir Klitschko has previously insisted that “every Russian representative needs to be sanctioned”. In an interview with IFLTV in May, Bivol hit back. “He is a sportsman, he should know sports and politics is different,” he said. “He was an athlete. Now he is [a] politician. It is sad that he wants to shake it up and mix sport and politics.”
Bivol is the only Russian boxer to currently hold a major belt other than IBF, WBO and WBC light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, who has circumvented the ban on his country’s fighters due to his dual citizenship. He has lived in Canada for 15 years and holds a Canadian passport, hence why he was allowed to fight in New York earlier this year.
Yet the world of boxing may be feeling the pinch and will be taking note of developments in other sports. As reported by
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