Saunders fined over drugs-for-sex video on Twitter


  • Boxing
  • Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018

Boxing - Frank Warren Press Conference - BT Tower, London, Britain - May 1, 2018 Billy Joe Saunders during the press conference Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge

(Reuters) - Boxer Billy Joe Saunders has been fined 100,000 pounds by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) for posting a video on social media in which he offered a woman 150 pounds worth of drugs to perform a sex act on another person.

The 29-year-old British WBO middleweight champion later deleted the video from Twitter and tweeted an apology, describing his actions as "banter when wrong". https://twitter.com/bjsaunders_/status/1041964042368282625 Nottinghamshire police are investigating the incident, according to reports.

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