Aqib Fiaz addresses the media on June 20 throughout closing pre-fight press convention in Birmingham, England. Picture Credit score: Mark Robinson, Matchroom Boxing
Aqib Fiaz must sit even longer on his lone profession defeat.
The 24-year-old junior light-weight was named—however indirectly concerned—in a playing investigation concerning his deliberate bout versus Kane Baker. Their bout was as a consequence of seem on Saturday’s Tyler Denny-Felix Money DAZN undercard from Resorts World Area 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 mild.
“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 data, I adopted it up myself and with my workforce, the playing fee and British Boxing Board of Management. Having spoken to plenty of individuals, I made a decision to tug the struggle pending an additional investigation.”
The event was first reported by Boxing Information+ video reporter Andi Purewal.
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Fiaz (12-1, 1 knockout), 24, was as a consequence of 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 tug the plug.
Hearn and Fiaz each acknowledged they have been made conscious of the state of affairs on the time of the struggle cancellation.
“[Saturday’s] struggle was cancelled as a consequence of a state of affairs I used to be unaware of and had no involvement in,” Fiaz said by his Instagram channel. “There’s an ongoing investigation and I’ve been suggested to make no feedback presently.”
Hearn was in the same place, however supplied 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 troublesome determination very near the struggle. It’s one thing we take very critically.
“In 15 years of selling boxing, I’ve by no means skilled that kind of state of affairs. We needed to assume on our toes and that was our determination.”
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