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The organizers of the world professional boxing title match between Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev of Matchroom Boxing refuse to allow Bulgarian journalists to participate in the fight in London. The case has already been taken to the highest level: the International Association of Sports Journalists (AIPS), the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Sports, as well as the four boxing federations, whose titles will be delivered on Saturday.
So far, however, this has not produced any results and so far 12 Bulgarian journalists, interested in covering the match, are still waiting for a change.
The fight, which features the belts of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the International Boxing Organization (IBO), is Saturday at Wembley Arena in London.
Matchroom Boxing is the company of promoter Joshua Eddie Hearn and his father Barry Hearn.
As an organizer, the company has the right to issue a document with the names of journalists who have applied for accreditation, which will release them from the mandatory 14-day quarantine for those entering the UK. An exception of this type is currently made for people who enter the country for work reasons. Matchroom Boxing first refused to do so, and then the company said the deadline had been missed.
According to current regulations, everyone involved in the world title match must be in the so-called balloon and be in one place, including the journalists covering the meeting. One of Matchroom Boxing’s explanations was “that the hotel has only 12 rooms for journalists, which are provided to the English media,” Vladislava Lazarova of the Pulev team said in a statement to the Association of Bulgarian Sports Journalists. According to her, however, the hotel has a completely unoccupied floor.
Pulev’s attorney, John Worth of Epic Sports, is familiar with the case and is trying to resolve the issue with Matchroom Boxing and the British Boxing Board administration.
Matchroom Boxing CEO Frank Smith has informed us that we are behind on all deadlines. We also have no answers to repeated inquiries about the conditions that Bulgarian journalists must meet if they want to be accredited by Epic Sports and Top Rank. “, clarifies Lazarova.
“Since Friday, the Ministry of Sport has endeavored to resolve the case. From there, it sent a letter signed personally by Minister (Krasen) Kralev to the British Ministry of Sport, the British Boxing Board and the permit issuing service. to enter the country without At the moment, the answer only came from the secretary general of his boxing board, Robert Smith, who informed our Ministry of Sports that he was referring the case to Matchroom, “added Lazarova.
Pulev will make a second attempt to reach the top of the world after losing to Wladimir Klitschko in Germany six years ago.
