THE newest instalment of Matchroom’s Prizefighter match might be over earlier than it’s completion.
On January 31, it was introduced that the three-round format would return however this time in Japan. On the Matchroom Boxing CEO Frank Smith mentioned, “This can be a implausible strategy to begin our landmark three-year deal in Japan.”
Having taken their enterprise into different nations Matchroom had hoped to do one thing related in Asia.
Eight middleweight opponents got here collectively for the quarter-final stage on July 15 4 months after its authentic date. Contained in the Yamato Enviornment in Osake there have been wins for Kieron Conway, Aaron McKenna, Kazuto Takesako and Riku Kunimoto. Whoever went on to win the competitors total would pocket $1 million.
In current weeks there have been murmurs that the match wouldn’t proceed. Conway, who was to face McKenna within the semi-finals, returns to the ring on November 30 when he takes on Ryan Kelly for the Commonwealth middleweight title.
In the present day (November 1) Boxing Information caught up with Frank Smith to ask him for an replace on the match.
“It’s an ongoing state of affairs, a authorized matter that can stick with it,” he answered.
“Sadly, proper now, it doesn’t seem like the match’s not gonna occur. As quickly as we’ve acquired extra information we’ll have the ability to speak about it however it’s an ongoing matter proper now.
Smith described the state of affairs as “very irritating” however shared little else on the matter.
“All of them acquired very effectively paid for the primary combat however the goal wasn’t to simply go there for one present. We labored very exhausting to try to get new issues over the road, to develop the game, to construct the enterprise. [It’s] a kind of issues that we’ve to see play out.”
