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<\/p>\nFormer IBF super-featherweight world champion Joe Cordina has been charged with “assault and threatening a person with an offensive weapon” after an incident at a petrol station in Cardiff in February.<\/p>\n
Cordina, 34, is set to appear at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court on July 7.<\/p>\n
A statement from South Wales Police said: “Two men have been charged in connection with an incident outside Pentwyn Service Station, Pentwyn Road, Cardiff, on February 27, 2026,<\/p>\n
“Joseph 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’ Court on July 7.”<\/p>\n
South Wales Police said another man – Jamie O’Brien, 32, from Pentwyn – has been charged with assault and is due to appear at the same court on July 28.<\/p>\n
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\n Cordina is a two-time IBF super-featherweight world champion<\/p>\n
Cordina ‘gutted’ as world-title shot collapses<\/p>\n
Cordina said on Wednesday, via his Instagram story, that his proposed fight with WBO lightweight world champion Abdullah Mason in Cleveland, Ohio on July 4 had collapsed after his application for a US visa was denied.<\/p>\n
He explained in a video: “Just to let everyone know that I’m not going to fight. There’s no injuries, I’ve had a great camp and I was meant to fly over this week.<\/p>\n
“A couple of days back, I went to the US embassy in London and they basically denied me a visa. I tried to explain certain things and I had all the paperwork to back it up and they wasn’t having it.<\/p>\n
“They just basically told me ‘you ain’t getting in’. It’s out of my hands and I’m absolutely gutted because it was my chance to become a three-time, two-weight world champion.”<\/p>\n
Cordina lost the IBF super-featherweight title when he was stopped by Anthony Cacace in Riyadh in May 2024 – the only defeat on his 19-fight CV – and has since earned unanimous-decision victories over Jaret Gonzalez Quiroz and Gabriel Flores Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former IBF super-featherweight world champion Joe Cordina has been charged with “assault and threatening a person with an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}