Aqib Fiaz addresses the media on June 20 throughout last pre-fight press convention in Birmingham, England. Picture Credit score: Mark Robinson, Matchroom Boxing
Aqib Fiaz should sit even longer on his lone profession defeat.
The 24-year-old junior light-weight was named—however in a roundabout way concerned—in a playing investigation relating to his deliberate bout versus Kane Baker. Their bout was resulting from seem on Saturday’s Tyler Denny-Felix Money DAZN undercard from Resorts World Enviornment in Birmingham, England.
Matchroom Boxing pulled the struggle on the eleventh hour, solely citing “unexpected circumstances” on the time. The explanation has now come to gentle.
“I used to be made conscious of some betting irregularities on thar struggle,” Matchroom chairman Eddie Hearn revealed afterward, in a video on the firm’s YouTube channel. “I used to be given some info, I adopted it up myself and with my crew, the playing fee and British Boxing Board of Management. Having spoken to numerous folks, I made a decision to drag the struggle pending an extra investigation.”
The event was first reported by Boxing Information+ video reporter Andi Purewal.
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Fiaz (12-1, 1 knockout), 24, was resulting from struggle for the primary time since his lone profession defeat. He was dropped and subsequently stopped by Reece Bellotti on the finish of the eighth spherical final Oct. 21 in Liverpool.
A reputable however made-to-order matchup was on tab versus Birmingham’s Baker (19-11-2, 1 KO). Fiaz opened at roughly -400 with some books and landed at -525 on struggle day. Motion gave the impression to be in all places, with one guess or extra inflicting sufficient concern to drag the plug.
Hearn and Fiaz each acknowledged they have been made conscious of the scenario on the time of the struggle cancellation.
“[Saturday’s] struggle was cancelled resulting from a scenario I used to be unaware of and had no involvement in,” Fiaz acknowledged by means of his Instagram channel. “There may be an ongoing investigation and I’ve been suggested to make no feedback right now.”
Hearn was in an identical place, however offered the general public with as a lot context as legally permitted.
“I hand it over now to the playing fee and British Boxing Board of Management. The data I used to be supplied with, I wasn’t proud of. We needed to make a really tough choice very near the struggle. It’s one thing we take very severely.
“In 15 years of selling boxing, I’ve by no means skilled that sort of scenario. We needed to suppose on our ft and that was our choice.”
