BBBofC To Withhold Ishmael Tetteh's Purse Pending Investigation
By Elliot Foster
Ishmael Tetteh will have to travel home without his money.
The Ghanaian was stopped by Luke Blackledge inside five rounds in a challenge for the Commonwealth super-middleweight title, as part of the undercard to Jack Catterall’s WBO Inter-Continental super-lightweight title defence against Joe Hughes at the Premier Suite at Bolton Wanderers’ Macron Stadium.
But the legitimacy of the stoppage of the fight, which was aired exclusively live on BoxNation, has been called into question.
Tetteh, who is known to UK fans having fought Martin Murray in South Africa back in 2013, was the subject of a flurry of shots from Accrington’s Blackledge, but the shot after which Tetteh hit the canvas didn’t seem to land.
Referee Terry O’Connor did his job in completing the count, from which Tetteh failed to rise and was counted out, but many felt that it was something of a quit job by ‘The Black Roy Jones Jr’.
One of the many who, as previously mentioned, felt that Tetteh had taken the easy way out was Robert Smith.
And the British Boxing Board of Control general secretary confirmed in the aftermath of the fight that Tetteh would be travelling back to Ghana empty-handed and with another loss on his record, saying that the Board will withhold his purse, pending an investigation.
