Ex-boxing Champ Detained Over ‘Error’ in Drug Sentence

Published on February 9, 2024

A former world champion boxer has been resentenced for drug trafficking after he was prevented from leaving custody over an error in calculating his jail term. Michael Alan Katsidis, 43, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday to one count of drug trafficking over three-and-a-half months starting in December 2021. Katsidis won the title of world interim lightweight champion in 2007 and competed for Australia at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. He was due to be released from custody on Feb. 8 after being sentenced to four years and six months’ imprisonment to be suspended immediately due to time previously served. Two of Katsidis’s supporters waited outside Brisbane Supreme Court for about four hours before being told by Corrective Services that he would instead have to serve another 117 days....

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