USA Bars British Female Boxer

British Super Bantamweight Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston was refused a visa on the basis she only has 2 living family members, doesn’t rent an apartment or have an official job in the UK and they told her boxing is “just a hobby” despite Marianne making a living from it.
She applied for a B1 visa in order to compete on the under card of Brian Cohen’s WBC Americas Light Heavyweight title fight on the 9th May at South Philadelphia High School.
After regularly traveling back and forth to America to train for over two years, on the visa waiver system, with no problems prior. Marianne is expecting further repercussions from her failure to secure a visa as her contract with sports clothing and equipment manufacturer, Pugilist Urban Garments, is reliant on her being in America as part of the promotion of their P.U.G. Athletic brand into the $50 Billion American Sporting goods market in 2009.
The technical reason she was refused on the basis of insufficient socioeconomic ties with the United Kingdom. The basis for this being Marianne only has two living relatives, even though both are UK resident, that she does not own or lease a property in the UK or that she does not have UK employment to return to.
If you happen to think that this is as dumb as I do, a Philadelphia newspaper has asked their readers to “help Marianne fulfill her dream to professionally fight in America please send an e.mail titled: “LetMarianne box” to Special Consular Services at SCSLondon@state.gov asking them to reconsider Marianne Marston’s visa application”