Double Olympic champion Claressa Shields criticises boxing fans' reaction to Kubrat Pulev kissing a female reporter Jennifer Ravalo.
Boxing fans"should be ashamed" of their reaction to heavyweight Kubrat Pulev kissing female reporter Jennifer Ravalo, says double Olympic champion Claressa Shields.Reaction has included a doctored image on social media of Ravalo in a compromising position with Pulev.Vegas Sports Daily's Ravalo said she had only met Pulev a day before the incident, which happened after he defeated Romanian Bogdan Dinu in the American city of Costa Mesa last Saturday.
Her lawyer, Gloria Allred, claimed"the said assault was unlawful and unwelcome" and the boxer has been ordered to appear in front of the California State Athletic Commission , which says it"takes this incident seriously".American Shields said the"boxing fans commenting saying she should suck it up, she liked it... she asked for it, she's doing it for the money" should"be ashamed of themselves".
"He needs to apologise and be held accountable, even if accountable means paying her, or apologising, and just letting it be known he knows what he did was wrong."
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