The latest edition of the Prizefighter Podcast is available to download for free on iTunes via www.prizefighter.co.uk – with Robin Reid talking about the Super-Middleweights II and Eddie Hearn revealing a possible rule change.
Reid takes top billing in the 17th edition of Matchroom Sport’s eight-man, one-night tournaments on his home patch of at the Liverpool Olympia on Wednesday 23 March and talked to the Prizefighter Podcast about how he intends to tackle the three-threes format from ringside at the last event, the Light-Heavyweights at London’s Olympia.
Reid is joined in the line-up by two fellow Liverpudlians in former British champion Tony Quigley and Commonwealth title challenger Carl Dilks and Matchroom Sport can confirm the names of four more hungry young fighters in the mix.
Midlands duo Jahmaine Smyle (Leicester, 24) and Ty Mitchell (Derby, 20), Enzo Maccarinelli’s highly-rated nephew Tobias Webb (Swansea, 22) and Leeds’ Wayne Reed (23) take the line-up to seven fighters with the final boxer to be named soon.
Two reserves will be added to that list too, but Matchroom Sport’s Eddie Hearn reveals in the podcast that they have approached the British Boxing Board of Control with a proposed change to the rules regarding reserves in Prizefighter.
Both reserves were used at London Olympia after Jack Morris and Tony Dodson were forced to withdraw through injury after victories in the first quarter-final and the second semi-final respectively. Now, tournament organizers have proposed a rule that the defeated fighter could go through to the next stage should the board clear them to do so.
“I wrote to the board last week and the line of thinking is that if a fighter is OK to continue but loses he should progress to the next round if his opponent is forced to quit,” said Hearn. “A lot of people say that if you lose you shouldn’t progress but in the ABAs you can progress if you are fit and healthy if your opponent pulls out.”
Hearn also talks to Steve Bunce about the last Prizefighter and the Liverpool show as well as opening up on Paul McCloskey’s fight with Amir Khan.
Tickets for Prizefighter Super Middleweights II at Liverpool Olympia on Wednesday 23 March are now available from Matchroom Sport priced £30 unreserved, £50 ringside and £100 VIP – to buy call Matchroom Sport on 01277 359900.