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By Frank Warren
AS SOON as the big heavyweight showdown between David Haye and Dereck Chisora was officially announced this week, the ‘experts’ started to come out.
Promoter Barry Hearn was quick off the mark to say his company Matchroom would never work on a show that wasn’t licensed by the British Boxing Board of Control.
Conveniently, he’s forgotten about taking Herol Graham and Julian Jackson overseas after Jackson was refused a licence to fight in Britain due to his deteriorating eyesight.
Jackson was virtually blind in one eye. But as Hearn had won the purse bid to stage the vacant WBC world middleweight title, he looked at Monaco before eventually getting a licence under the Spanish boxing federation to stage the fight in Benalmadena.
So a half-blind boxer fought against a British licence holder with another British licence holder involved in the promotion. What did the Board do about it? Zilch! [Click Here To Read More]
AS SOON as the big heavyweight showdown between David Haye and Dereck Chisora was officially announced this week, the ‘experts’ started to come out.
Promoter Barry Hearn was quick off the mark to say his company Matchroom would never work on a show that wasn’t licensed by the British Boxing Board of Control.
Conveniently, he’s forgotten about taking Herol Graham and Julian Jackson overseas after Jackson was refused a licence to fight in Britain due to his deteriorating eyesight.
Jackson was virtually blind in one eye. But as Hearn had won the purse bid to stage the vacant WBC world middleweight title, he looked at Monaco before eventually getting a licence under the Spanish boxing federation to stage the fight in Benalmadena.
So a half-blind boxer fought against a British licence holder with another British licence holder involved in the promotion. What did the Board do about it? Zilch! [Click Here To Read More]
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