Boxing-Gloves dispute in world title fight will be resolved (Reuters)
The dispute over the gloves to be used in Saturday’s world heavyweight title fight between Ukrainian holder Wladimir Klitschko and Britain’s Tyson Fury will be resolved before Friday’s rules meeting, officials said. Klitschko, unbeaten for 11 years and a hot favourite to retain his belts in Duesseldorf, has the right to choose the gloves for both fighters but Fury’s camp had protested that the ones sent to him were unsuitable, and hurt his thumb. “On Friday the gloves that will fit will be here,” the German professional boxers’ association (BDB) chief Thomas Puetz told reporters on Wednesday.