{"id":48187,"date":"2014-11-25T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=48187"},"modified":"2014-11-25T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:48:40","slug":"cecilia-braekhus-pissed-over-jennifer-retzke-not-showing-up-at-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=48187","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Br\u00e6khus PISSED Over Jennifer Retzke Not Showing Up at Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=48187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-48188\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cb-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cb\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Photo Credit: Viasat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cecilia Br\u00e6khus met with the Norwegian media at a press conference today in Oslo ahead of her WBC, WBA, WBO &amp; IBF Female World Welterweight title defence on Saturday night at the Falconer Hall at the Radisson Blu in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Notable in her absence was the pound-for-pound queen\u2019s opponent, Jennifer Retzke, who refused to attend the scheduled press conference due to a perceived snub by \u2018The First Lady\u2019 when the pair came face-to-face at a shared media day in Berlin.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Br\u00e6khus laughed off claims from Team Retzke, who had labelled her a \u2018diva\u2019 and \u2018disrespectful\u2019 for allegedly refusing to pose for a picture in front of the German challenger\u2019s sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Her team are completely crazy,\u2019\u2019 said Br\u00e6khus. \u2018\u2019When I politely declined to take a picture after a long day, I had no idea it would cause this kind of a reaction. I find it funny. I\u2019m not a diva, so for them to say that, makes me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019I\u2019m not one for trash talking, I\u2019ll leave that to my opponents, but what I will say is I\u2019m 100% focused. I believe I\u2019m in a different league to Retzke and I plan to show that on Saturday night!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Said promoter Nisse Sauerland: \u2018\u2019It\u2019s a shame Jennifer felt she was unable to attend today\u2019s press event. However, I\u2019m pleased to announce that Team Retzke will be attending Thursday\u2019s press conference in Copenhagen. I look forward to seeing them there, almost as much as I look forward to seeing Cecilia beat Jennifer on Saturday night!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Also presents at today\u2019s press conference were Norwegian prospects Tim Robin Lihaug, Alexander Hagen and Kai Robin Havnaa, who all feature on an action-packed bill in Copenhagen. Lihaug challenges George Beroshvili for the vacant WBO Youth Super Middleweight title, Hagen faces Karel Horejsek and Havnaa makes his professional debut against Tomislav Rudan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Viasat Cecilia Br\u00e6khus met with the Norwegian media at a press conference today in Oslo ahead of her WBC, WBA, WBO &amp; IBF Female World Welterweight title defence on Saturday night at the Falconer Hall at the Radisson Blu in Copenhagen. Notable in her absence was the pound-for-pound queen\u2019s opponent, Jennifer Retzke, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11245],"class_list":["post-48187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-cecilia-braekhus-pissed-over-jennifer-retzke-not-showing-up-at-press-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48187"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}