UK card scrapped after Commission rejects replacement!

20/10/2006

UK card scrapped after Commission rejects replacement!

Press Release: Hennessy Sports has postponed their show at the York Hall in Bethnal Green scheduled for tonight (Friday), despite going to every effort to secure a suitable replacement  after Barry Morrison withdrew from his mandatory challenge to British Light Welterweight champion Lenny Daws. According to Hennessy Sports, Morrison's precise reasons are unclear, but he did provide a doctor's note citing unspecified health problems. Alan Bosworth was sought as a replacement but Hennessy Sports says the British Boxing Board of Control wouldnt sanction him to do so. The Board also deemed Colin Lynes unsuitable. "It has been a very frustrating week," admitted Hennessy Sports head Mick Hennessy. "We have done everything we can to keep this show together. This kind of cancellation is not good for British Boxing. Everyone loses out: the fans, television, us and, perhaps worst of all, the boxers. Lenny had been training for this fight for ten weeks, Bosworth and Lynes had a crucial British Title Eliminator, Lee Meager was getting in an 8-rounder before defending against Jon Thaxton and there is a host of fighters on the undercard losing out on vital experience. It stops us from moving things forward. All this is without even touching on the financial implications. I am absolutely shocked at the decision not to sanction Bosworth, particularly when you consider some of the fights that have been passed recently. There needs to be some consistency."