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Tangible scandal surrounding Klitschko at a boxing event in the USA: video censored, important passage missing

2022-06-17T03:51:52.508Z


Tangible scandal surrounding Klitschko at a boxing event in the USA: video censored, important passage missing Created: 06/17/2022, 05:36 By: Markus Hofstetter Wladimir Klitschko was honored for his sporting achievements. He did not attend the ceremony, but sent a video message. Parts of it were obviously too delicate for the organizer. KIEV/Canastota - The International Boxing Hall of Fame (I


Tangible scandal surrounding Klitschko at a boxing event in the USA: video censored, important passage missing

Created: 06/17/2022, 05:36

By: Markus Hofstetter

Wladimir Klitschko was honored for his sporting achievements.

He did not attend the ceremony, but sent a video message.

Parts of it were obviously too delicate for the organizer.

KIEV/Canastota - The International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) honors boxers, coaches and others associated with the sport of boxing.

Around five years after the end of his career, former world champion Wladimir Klitschko has also been included.

His brother Vitali Klitschko, who is currently the mayor of Kyiv, was inducted into the Hall of Fame back in 2018.

Incidentally, the honorees of the 2021 vintage also include Floyd Mayweather and Laila Ali, daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

Klitschko's speech censored: In the video he first talks about his sporting career

The ceremony in which the award ceremony took place took place last weekend from June 9th to 12th in Canastota, New York State.

Since Wladimir Klitschko was unable to travel to the USA because of the Ukraine conflict, he addressed the audience in a video message.

This video can also be found on the Klitschko Twitter page.

There could now be a real scandal about this video because it was manipulated by the organizers.

First of all, Wladimir Klitschko goes into his sporting career in his video.

He says he remembers starting his boxing career at the age of 14.

At the time, he never dreamed of making it this far in the sport, especially among the respected champions of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

That is fantastic and a great honor.

Klitschko speech censored: Criticism of other ex-boxing world champions because of close relationship with Russia

But then his speech becomes political.

He blames Russia's aggression on his homeland that prevented him from attending the ceremony in person.

He later referred to another boxer, Roy Jones Jr. “There is one person I have a real question for: a person broke Ukrainian law by invading the occupied Crimea through Russian territory is.

That person is Roy Jones,” says Wladimir Klitschko.

"So Roy, whose side are you on?

On the side of the aggressor or on the side of the defender of his right to life?

I respect you as a fighter, but I have doubts about your moral compass," Wladimir Klitschko continued.

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Klitschko speech censored: organizers cut out passage in video language

The course of the ceremony can be followed on the official video, which can be found on Youtube.

It also shows how Wladimir Klitschko's video speech is shown.

But the part in which he criticizes Roy Jones Jr. has been censored by the organizers and cannot be seen.

It is noticeable that this scene was cut out poorly in terms of craftsmanship.

She seems to be too political for the IBHOF.

It is piquant that Roy Jones Jr. is on the list of IBHOF honorees for the year 2022.

Roy Jones Jr. is said to be very close to Russia.

The ex-boxing world champion met Vladimir Putin in 2015 and received Russian citizenship from him.

Source: merkur

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