Comments Thread For: Frank Warren, Bill Ives, Queensberry Promotions Join Forces

[JakeNDaBox]

It was announced today that Frank Warren, Britain’s leading boxing promoter, his sons George and Francis’ company Queensberry Promotions and Bill Ives, one of Britain’s leading businessmen, have signed an exclusive agreement to create a powerful, new, promotional organisation. The combination of the promotional powerhouse that is Frank Warren and the business acumen and financial investment of steel tycoon Bill Ives is designed to take boxing promotion in the UK to a new level.

Mr. Warren, an inductee in the International Boxing Hall of Fame, has been responsible for promoting many of the world’s best boxers and their highest profile contests. Mr. Ives is the Chairman and principal of Rainham Steel, the UK’s foremost independent steel stockholder. He regularly features in the Sunday Times Rich List as one of the country’s most successful businessmen.

The background to this new partnership is a growing demand for high profile international boxing contests. With live sporting events becoming more and more valuable around the world, and boxing being one of the leading global sports, Queensberry Promotions, Mr. Warren and Mr. Ives intend to stage large scale boxing matches featuring the major superstars of the sport to live audiences around the world. [Click Here To Read More]

[Kilrain]

I stopped reading at 'Britain's leading boxing promoter'

[Gypsy John Fury]

This new season will be very interesting, with both Sky and now Frank having bigger budgets.