d Billy Joe Saunders was suspended Monday by the British professional boxing federation after a video in which he explained how to strike his companion in period of confinement.
The 30-year-old British boxer had posted a recording of him in front of a punching bag on social media showing how to "hit her on the chin" and "knock her out". Comments which led to his provisional suspension by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) pending his hearing on a date which remains to be determined.
After an apology, in which Billy Joe Saunders explained that he would "never praise domestic violence", the boxer, accustomed to discrepancies, promised to give 25,000 pounds (28,000 euros) to associations fighting against this violence .
The heavy liability of Saunders
Saunders said it was a "stupid mistake" on Talksport radio: "There are people dying around the world with coronavirus and I was just trying to lighten the mood," he is defended, observing that "it is clearly not what happened".
"My sense of humor is not everyone's cup of tea," concluded the Briton who had already apologized earlier this month after calling an airline to report that a passenger, a passenger his friends had symptoms of coronavirus. He had been disembarked from the flight with two other relatives of Saunders.
In 2018, the boxer was fined 100,000 pounds (112,000 pounds) and warned by BBBoC after a video in which he apparently offered drugs to a woman from his car in exchange for an act then asked her to hit a passerby before the ex-middleweight fled.
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