The boxer has become the butt of social media jokes, Alessio Perrone writes.
US boxer Rod Salka must have thought it was a good idea to wear border-wall-themed trunks against his Mexican opponent.
At a super-featherweight match against Francisco Vargas in California last April, Salka’s shorts read ‘America 1st’ against a background of bricks – an obvious reference to President Trump’s pledge to ‘build a wall’ between the US and Mexico.
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