A 2020 marked by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic has ended and the new year has begun with the hope that the world will begin to return to its old normalcy, the first vaccines to improve viruses already in circulation.
However, Difficult days are being lived in Europe due to a case outbreak, added to the existence of a new strain of Covid which, they say, is much more contagious than the one studied so far.
For all these are they in Great Britain, one of the modern matches of world boxing, especially for the weight that the promoter has gained MatchRoom box, the decision was made to suspend all billboards which were to take place there in January.
Due to the increase in COVID19 infections, BBBofC (British Commission) ordered the cancellation or postponement of all boxing evenings that were scheduled to take place in the UK in January pic.twitter.com/Uo3i23SA6J
– ESPN KnockOut (@ESPNKnockOut)
January 3, 2021
The decision of the British Boxing Commission highlights the postponement of the card that was to be played at Wakefield on January 22, whose stellar fight was to put it face to face. Karim Guerfi and Lee McGregor for the European title with bantam weight.
That was planned too Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin got their revenge in London on January 30, although the Russian team has already come out to say that the fight will not take place until at least March, due to the complications that the WBC world silver champion now had, after caught the coronavirus. .