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Frank Maloney
Blasts 'Chicken Fury' For Vacating Titles
David Price's promoter Frank Maloney has blasted Tyson Fury
for vacating his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles
and preventing a fight against Price.
Price became the mandatory challenger to Fury's British belt
when he won the English heavyweight title with a 73 second
knockout of John McDermott and it had been hoped the fight
would be made though Fury, dismissed as "Chicken Fury" by
Maloney, has disappointed Team Price by vacating his titles.
"Chicken Fury was going to get the biggest pay of his career
to date, and has let himself, his fans, his traveling
community and most of all the boxing world down," said
Maloney.
"This is why people are turning against the sport I love and
again politics have ruled what a boxer does.
"The BBBofC (British Boxing Board of Control) have purse
bids for a reason and this fight generated more interest
than normal with all the top promoters in the UK bidding for
it.
"[Mick] Hennessy sent out a statement this morning saying
that Fury will be pursuing World titles but the nearest Fury
will get to winning a world title is having the same nick
name as former WBC heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe who was
christened Chicken Bowe for also clucking away from another
British Olympian.
Both Maloney and 2008 Olympic bronze medallist Price had
been confident about his ability to defeat Fury, as he did
before as an amateur, but it appears the Liverpudlian will
now have to wait for the chance to do so.
"Chicken Fury will regret the day he gave up his belts and
the chance to earn his biggest pay to date," Maloney added.
"I don't believe Hennessy or Channel 5 had the financial
backing to put this fight on and this is why they have
pulled out.
"As a promoter you take a risk when it comes to purse bids,
you can bid too high and make a massive loss or too low and
stand the chance that your fighter will fight on another
promotion and TV channel.
We submitted our bid and crossed our fingers like all the
other promoters did, but Hennessy or Chicken Fury could not
take the gamble and have clucked away instead.
"This is a real disappointment for us all. A show that all
heavyweight boxing fans wanted to see gets taken away before
any chance of a bid was accepted. Why vacate when you were
offered more money than your promoters were prepared to
pay!? This is simply something Maloney Promotions do not
understand."
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