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The erstwhile boxing world champion Joe Cordina has been charged pinch “assault and threatening a personification pinch an violative weapon” pursuing an incident astatine a petrol position successful a Cardiff suburb successful February.
The 34-year-old, a two-time IBF super-featherweight champion who was owed to look Abdullah Mason for nan WBO lightweight title adjacent month, is group to look astatine Cardiff magistrates tribunal connected 7 July.
A connection from South Wales constabulary said: “Two men person been charged successful relationship pinch an incident extracurricular Pentwyn Service Station, Pentwyn Road, Cardiff, connected February 27, 2026.
“Joseph Cordina, 34, from Pontprennau, has been charged pinch battle and threatening a personification pinch an violative limb successful a nationalist place. He is owed to look astatine Cardiff Magistrates’ Court connected July 7.
“Jamie O’Brien, 32, from Pentwyn, has been charged pinch battle and is owed to look astatine Cardiff Magistrates’ Court connected July 28.”
The Cardiff fighter, who has won 19 of his 20 fights and 9 by knockout, revealed successful an Instagram communicative connected Wednesday that his exertion for a US visa had been knocked back, triggering nan illness of a 4 July bout against Mason successful Cleveland. In a video, he said: “Just to fto everyone cognize that I’m not going to fight. There’s nary injuries, I’ve had a awesome campy and I was meant to alert complete this week.
“A mates of days back, I went to nan US embassy successful London and they fundamentally denied maine a visa. I tried to explicate definite things and I had each nan paperwork to backmost it up and they wasn’t having it.
“They conscionable fundamentally told me: ‘You ain’t getting in’. It’s retired of my hands and I’m perfectly gutted because it was my chance to go a three-time, two-weight world champion.”
