Fighting has been suspended for all of January in one of the great meccas of world boxing

A 2020 marked by fire through the spread of the coronavirus pandemic ended and the new year began in the hope that the world will return to its old normalcy, with the first vaccines to alleviate viruses already put into circulation.

However, In Europe, difficult days are being experienced as a result of a return of cases, adding to the existence of a new breed of Covid which, they say, is highly contagious than the one studied so far.

For all this is that in Great Britain, one of the modern meccas of world boxing, mainly because of the weight gained by its promoter MatchRoom Boxing, it has been decided to suspend all billboards that would take place there in January.

With the British Boxing Commission’s decision, the postponement of the card to be played on January 22 at Wakefield, whose great fight would come face to face with Karim Guerfi ​​and Lee McGregor for the European Bantamweight Title.

That was also planned Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin had their rematch in London on January 30, although the Russian team had already come out to say that this bout would not take place until March due to the complications the now WBC heavyweight world champion Silver had after contracting the coronavirus.