By Robert Coster
Here is the COVID-19 protocol for Saturday’s Shaun Promotions boxing card at the Carlos Teo Cruz Coliseum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The fights can be seen on ESPN Knockout.
1. Boxers and teams will be separated by an acrylic glass in the locker room
2. First tests have already taken place. Another test at Friday’s weigh-in
3. The teams will be provided with sanitary kits
4. Boxers will use sanitary trunks
5. Surgical masks, gloves, shoes will be tested and provided
6. Boxers will be retested the day of the fight
7. Everybody will undergo sanitary tests upon arriving at the Coliseum
8. The Coliseum can hold 8,000 people, but only 25 will be admitted
9. Teams will use masks and gloves. Boxers will have their own personalized gloves
10. There will only be six bouts on the card
11. Teams will be kept isolated from each other
12. Only three people per team
13. Boxers will be tested again after their fights
These rules are so bizarre and idiotic that they make a complete mockery out of the sport and reality.
Hopefully they will also start enforcing the No Holding rule again, after 15 years of allowing it to ruin fights.