It ended a 2020 that was marked by fire by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the new year began with the hope that the world would begin to return to its former normalcy, with the first vaccines to alleviate in viruses already put into circulation.
However, in Europe are experiencing difficult days as a result of a resurgence of cases, added to the existence of a new strain of Covid which, they say, is highly more contagious than the one that has been studied so far.
For all this is that in Britain, One of the modern meccas of world boxing especially for the weight gained by the promoter MatchRoom box, the decision has been made to suspend all billboards which were scheduled to take place there during January.
Due to the increase in COVID19 infections, the BBBofC (British Commission) has ordered the cancellation or postponement of all boxing evenings that were scheduled to take place in the UK during the month of January. pic.twitter.com/Uo3i23SA6J
– ESPN KnockOut (@ESPNKnockOut)
January 3, 2021
With the decision taken by the British Boxing Commission highlights the postponement of the billboard that was to be played in Wakefield on January 22, the stellar fight was going to put face to face to Karim Guerfi and Lee McGregor for the European title of bantamweight.
It was also planned that Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin had their revenge in London on January 30, although from the Russian team had already come out to say that this fight would not take place at least until March because of the complications of the now world champion CMB’s heavyweight Silver then took on coronavirus.