Boxing could lag behind other industries when it’s time for the sport to resume.
That’s what longtime promoter Lou DiBella told BadLeftHook.com. DiBella said safety requirements unique to combat sports make resumption more complicated when medical care is spread thin.
“We’re not re-starting anytime soon,” DiBella told the website. “When the economy begins to re-start, get back to normal, we’re gonna be among the last industries to get back to normal. And that’s for a lotta reasons.
“You need two ambulances at every boxing event. You need medicals to go through state doctors and state commissions. You think state doctors have time right now to do boxing medicals? You think when there’s a shortage of ambulances in Louisiana, New York and Detroit, you think that we’re going to have two ambulances sitting so people can resume beating the f— out of one another for money soon?
“It’s not gonna happen. I’m worried about a lot of fighters, the blue collar fighters, the fighters who have to fight two or three times to have enough to put food on their table.”