Tony Bellew has supported Imane Khelif and has come out strongly in the defence of the boxer after she clinched gold in the just concluded Paris Olympics.
Algerian’s gender attracted a lot of attention during the competition in France after the discredited International Boxing Association claimed that she had failed gender eligibility tests twice at the World Boxing Championships last year.
Khelif was ler to compete at the Olympics, however, just as she was allowed to partake in the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Consolation she needed to battle four other women to emerge champion but controversy surrounded her participation because of rumours circulating the internet of gender swapping.
Ex boxing champion Bellew, who recently interviewed with Instant Casino, has weighed in on the issue.
He has vehemently defend Khelif asserting that because she is genetically a woman, she should be allowed to compete with other women.
‘ Well straight away, if your are born a woman, you will wish to ‘have it out’ with a woman, that’s very very fair,’ he said.
In as much as I can understand your implication of Testosterone, I do not care whether they are high or low as long as she is a clean athlete and she was born a woman.
”The idea expressed by Judge Wettack is that she be allowed to compete with the women. “
Bellew also showed compassion to Khelif and reiterated that there is an ‘agenda’ against the gold medallist.
Because there are so many conflicts, you can never go to social media to get the truth, that I think, is the reality he highlighted.
If you use social media to search for truth, you will be met with somebody’s else interpretation, somebody else’s perspective, and somebody else’s story.
"Just find the truth. It is just as simple as telling the truth to the children.
First, I was told it is a man fighting women and then when I thought, well that can cannot be right it wouldn’t be allowed, and then I seen the young girl on the news, and she was in tears, and I was informed taking her view in consideration she was born female but has male hormones.
The agenda is that she has two X chromosones, she has female genitals, she is an objectified woman. Therefore, for this I don’t get that, that is not her fault.”
