Everyone loves a list, or more accurately, everyone loves to debate a list. Boxing promoter Frank Warren, aged 72, has been around the sport for decades, he has worked with so many notable ring greats, and Warren has met some truly special fighters during his life, including the one and only Muhammad Ali.
So, it turns out there WILL be a big boxing card taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 23. We all know we will not see the scheduled heavyweight unification clash between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk On December 23 – this of course due to the wholly unexpected way Francis Ngannou gave Fury sheer hell in their supposed ‘joke’ fight of October 28 in Riyadh – but promoter Frank Warren says there will be a “massive” card that night all the same.
Veteran boxing promoter Frank Warren surprised a good many people by coming up with the winning bid for the Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte fight yesterday.
It’s official: Tyson Fury will fight Dillian Whyte in a WBC title defence next. It’s been reported by Sky Sports and other news outlets that Frank Warren won today’s purse bid battle to promote the fight.
Promoter Frank Warren says Anthony Joshua looked gunshy in his loss to Oleksandr Usyk last week in London. Warren says he doesn’t think Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) is capable of beating Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) to try and win back his IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles.
Promoter Frank Warren is pulling for Billy Joe Saunders to pull off a big win this Saturday night against Canelo Alvarez on May 8th at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Frank Warren says that as long as both fighters win their next fights – Tyson Fury against Agit Kabayel on December 5, and Anthony Joshua against Kubrat Pulev on December 12 – there should be absolutely nothing in the way of the two British superstars meeting in a massive heavyweight unification showdown next.
Promoter Frank Warren has brought up an interesting fact regarding the respective suspension of two fighters – Dillian Whyte and Dec Spelman.
The heavyweight division is moving again. We have the Dillian Whyte-Alexander Povetkin fight on Saturday; this fight a final, final eliminator for the WBC title, and hopefully, before the end of the year, we will see Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder III and Anthony Joshua-Kubrat Pulev.
Frank Warren, co-promoter of heavyweight king Tyson Fury, says Fury “ain’t fighting Dillian Whyte because he [Fury] wants Anthony Joshua.” Recently, as fans know, Whyte was assured by the WBC that he would fight the winner of the third fight between Fury and Deontay Wilder; his long awaited shot to come next year.