
Frank Warren on Fury Doping Controversy, Heavyweight Scene
When Tyson Fury dislodged Wladimir Klitschko from his firmly rooted perch last November the heavyweight scene, for the first time in a long while, captured the imagination again.

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When Tyson Fury dislodged Wladimir Klitschko from his firmly rooted perch last November the heavyweight scene, for the first time in a long while, captured the imagination again.

Over the years there has always been the nagging worry when British boxers head Stateside that the scoring of fights can be somewhat haphazard, resulting in a long-held dread of trusting the judges to correctly deliver a verdict.

Once again, the biggest fight of the weekend has been secured for BoxNation subscribers and the fact that this week’s tasty offering involves an unbeaten Brit only adds to the flavour.

You would never have guessed Terence Crawford was supposed to be up against it in the early hours of Sunday morning when he embarked on a quest to unify half of the super lightweight division, live on BoxNation.

Bob Arum, My old Top Rank sparring partner certainly remains on top of his game. With the likes of Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko, he is continuing to demonstrate his knack of identifying and developing the pick of the crop in world boxing.

It was my pleasure to welcome Oscar De La Hoya and his team from Golden Boy Promotions to London for the second leg of the media tour to publicise the forthcoming WBO Junior Middleweight World Championship fight between our own Liam Smith and the marauding Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.

Our sojourn over the Severn Bridge on Saturday night proved a successful one and also demonstrated clearly the hearty appetite for big time boxing in South Wales.

Forget, for now, all the shenanigans and posturing by the Eubanks over a date with middleweight great Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook stepping up to the September plate, this Saturday another pucker pound-for-pound puncher will strut his stuff for the first time in the UK.

The surprise twist of events with the announcement that Kell Brook, rather than Chris Eubank Jnr, would be tasked with taking on multi-titled middleweight Gennady Golovkin did not come as too much of a shock to me.

The response from fight fans in Wales to our stacked card in Cardiff next Saturday, I have to say, has been terrific. From the moment the match of the unbeaten pair of Liam Williams and Gary Corcoran was first mooted to be on the home patch of British champion Liam, the interest was instant and the demand for tickets gathered pace straight away.