Don Lemon suggests blame for Imane Khelif's infamous Olympic beatdown falls on female opponent

'Gaines for Girls' podcast host Riley Gaines discusses the gender controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and mandatory sex testing at the World Boxing Championships.

Left-wing political commentator Don Lemon suggested Italian women's boxer Angela Carini was responsible for the beatdown she received at the hands of Algeria's Imane Khelif, who previously failed sex eligibility tests.

Khelif punched Carini so hard at the Paris Olympics last summer that Carini had to withdraw from the match in tears after less than a minute.

But Lemon asked "Whose fault is that?" regarding Carini's bout with Khelif.

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

"If you put yourself in the arena to be hit and someone hits you hard, then whose fault is that?" Lemon said in an interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

"I’m sure whoever was in that competition understood who they were going into the ring with. And if you put yourself in that competition in the middle of a ring where punches are being thrown, then you can expect to get hit hard, whether it is a man or a woman. And that’s all I have to say about that."

Carini recently alleged she has suffered online abuse in the aftermath of her infamous defeat.

Carini published a video on Instagram with screenshots of messages of abuse she has received on social media — some begging her not to go to the Olympics again, others calling her "a coward" and "the shame of the Italy team" — and a voiceover of the 26-year-old explaining how she felt.

"Have you ever wondered how hard it was for me to face these words? What I had to endure and endure day after day? What I had to face in my silence, while preserving my health from a