By Elliot Foster
Tommy Langford has confirmed that he will still appear in Wales next month –– despite his British title fight against Chris Eubank Jr. being off.
The Devon-born middleweight had been set to challenge the second generation for the Lonsdale belt, exclusively live on BoxNation, as part of a Frank Warren promotion on October 22.
Langford, a former WBO Inter-Continental champion, had been training for several weeks in the build-up to the fight, which was scheduled to co-headline the ‘A Little Less Conversation’ card –– alongside Liam Williams’ British super-welterweight title defence against Ahmet Patterson –– at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff.
Eubank Jr., 26, vacated the domestic crown on Friday after suffering an elbow injury in training, leaving Langford to await a decision by the British Boxing Board of Control as to when the Devon man will eventually get his chance.
Next month’s date could come too early for Langford, though, as the 27-year-old comes to terms with the cancellation of the biggest fight of his career to date.
But he went on confirmed via social media, just as Queensberry Promotions’ matchmaker Jason McClory had done so by the same platform, that he will still box on the show.
“I'm absolutely gutted that Eubank has pulled out [due to] ‘tennis elbow’, which is the reason I heard today,” he wrote on Facebook.
“They never wanted the fight and they've been clutching at straws to get other opposition [by] calling people, other than me, out left, right and centre.”
The statement release by the Eubanks said they “will use the injury as an opportunity to step aside and fight high calibre world competition in the coming future.”
Langford continued his scathing attack on, as they are known, Team Eubank, via social media.
“[Eubank Jr. has] absolute total disrespect for the sport, fighters and more importantly the fans,” he wrote.
“I will still be fighting on October 22 in Cardiff and will be in a big fight regardless of what it's for.”
The show will feature Nathanael Wilson, Chris Eubank’s estranged son, and a whole host of other action.
Bradley Skeete will make a mandatory defence of his British welterweight crown against Shayne Singleton and Thomas Stalker and Craig Evans will do battle for the third time, with the former’s WBO European lightweight crown at stake, while Chris Jenkins has recently been confirmed as the latest addition.
Elsewhere, there are spots on the card for Lyon Woodstock, Jay Harris, Alex Hughes and Ilford’s Anthony Yarde, who scored a one-round stoppage on his US debut which came as part of the undercard to Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez’s nine-round stoppage of now-former WBO super-welterweight world champion Liam Smith at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
