Wales Online<\/a>, the force said: \u201cJoseph Cordina, 34, from Pontprennau, has been charged with assault and threatening a person with an offensive weapon in a public place. He is due to appear at Cardiff Magistrates\u2019 Court on July 7.<\/p>\n\u201cJamie O\u2019Brien, 32, from Pentwyn, has been charged with assault and is due to appear at Cardiff Magistrates\u2019 Court on July 28.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Athletic has approached South Wales Police to confirm the charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was due to fly to the United States this week,\u201d Cordina said. \u201cA couple of days back, I went to the U.S. embassy in London and they basically denied me a visa.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to explain certain things, and had all the paperwork to back it up, and they wasn\u2019t having it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just sort of basically told me, \u2018You ain\u2019t getting in.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Cordina\u2019s last fight took place in California when he outpointed Gabriel Flores Jr in December of last year.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Cordina\u2019s promoter, Matchroom Sport, declined to comment when approached by\u00a0The Athletic.<\/p>\n
The show is being promoted by Top Rank, in association with Matchroom Boxing, and broadcast on DAZN and TNT Sports in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Mason, 22, will still defend his title with The Ring<\/a> reporting fellow American Albert Bell will be the replacement. The Ohio native became boxing\u2019s youngest current male world champion when he outpointed British fighter Sam Noakes in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh boxer Joe Cordina has been ruled out of a world title fight after he was denied a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,9045,82],"class_list":["post-760886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-global-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}