04-10-2019 23:54 via kvoa.com

Boxing trainer sucker-punched before weigh-in

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Ivana Habazin’s trainer has been hospitalized after getting sucker-punched before the weigh-in for a title fight with Claressa Shields.
Bashir Ali was hit, fell and struck his head Friday on the Dort Federal Event Center floor. Habazin of Croatia is scheduled to face Shields, the Flint native and undisputed women’s middleweight champion, on Saturday.
Neither Shields (9-0) nor Habazin (20-3) took part in the weigh-in when it resumed Friday. Fighters on the un
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