ESPN boxing broadcasters Timothy Bradley and Joe Tessitore issued an on-air apology Saturday night time after laughing about a disturbing video of boxer Simiso Buthelezi, who died after falling right into a coma following his combat with Siphesihle Mntungwa. Bradley mentioned he didn’t know Buthelezi had died, whereas Tessitore mentioned he didn’t know the video Bradley was referencing.
Bradley, the previous mild welterweight and welterweight champion, introduced up the video of a disoriented Buthelezi throwing punches within the path of the referee after Tessitore talked about Alexis Angulo tried to go to a impartial nook, then Edgar Berlanga’s nook, throughout Saturday night time’s combat at MSG’s Hulu Theater.
“I’ve seen worse. There’s a video circulating proper now the place a man really knocked one other man out of the ring. He obtained again within the ring and the opposite man really began boxing a ghost within the nook,” Bradley mentioned through the fourth spherical of the Berlanga-Angulo combat, through clips captured by Terrible Saying.
Tessitore then laughed earlier than Bradley completed his thought. “I’m critical. He was boxing anyone within the nook when the ref mentioned ‘field.’ I’m telling you,” Bradley mentioned.
Bradley apologized at the beginning of the sixth spherical.
“I wish to take the trip proper now and apologize for that final assertion that I made about that man that was really punching somebody within the nook. He really handed away a couple of days in the past. I had no clue that he handed away, and I simply wish to give my utmost apologies to his household and to his family members,” Bradley mentioned.
Tessitore mentioned he was “unaware” of the video Bradley introduced up earlier than acknowledging Buthelezi’s loss of life.
Buthelezi was 24.
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