MANAGUA – Boxing is set to resume in Nicaragua on Saturday with a televised eight-fight card in front of a live audience in Managua.
The threat of the coronavirus was dismissed by promoter Rosendo Álvarez, the former two-time world champion. “Here we don’t fear the coronavirus, and there is no quarantine.
The three deaths (reported so far by the Ministry of Health) came from outside and nobody within the country has been contaminated,” said Álvarez, known as “El Búfalo.” He said he signed up 16 local boxers for the card, which is being televised by ESPN Latinoamerica (from OOOO GMT), because “Nicaragua is a poor country and the boxers have to eat.