Saturday’s WBO Light Heavyweight champion between Jurgen Brahmer and interim champion Nathan Cleverly has been postponed for a second time. This delay is due to a cut that Brahmer suffered just days before the fight in London according to espn.com’s Dan Rafael
“I am obviously disappointed that Brähmer has pulled out, especially as I was so convinced that Nathan was going to take his world title off him in the ring,” Said Cleverly’s promoter Frank Warren. “Unfortunately, this will now not be possible as Brähmer has withdrawn from the fight.”
“We will get an opponent for Nathan and I’m confident he will enter the ring as champion,” Warren said. “Brähmer has not acted like a champion so, therefore, does not deserve to be one after this. He has a track record for it. He’s a letdown. I couldn’t give a s— what happens to him after (he is stripped). He’s nuts, the guy.
“But at the moment the people I feel most sorry for are Nathan and the fans who have bought tickets. Nathan has trained hard to fight a southpaw, trained the hardest he’s ever done before, but you can bet he won’t be fighting a southpaw on Saturday when we get an opponent for him and that’s a real problem. But we hope we will have a name before the close of business (Wednesday). We are talking to a few fighters who have got good records and are ranked. It’s just a matter of trying to agree to terms with one of them.”
Brähmer was due to fly into the UK on Tuesday,” Warren said. “We got a call saying that he had missed his flight, but would land in the UK on Wednesday at 12 p.m. We sent a car to pick him up from the airport, but he didn’t show up. I then read on the Internet that he has a cut and won’t be fighting. We then found out that his team had emailed their hotel at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning and canceled their rooms.
“Neither Brähmer nor his promoters (Germany’s Universum Box-Promotion) have picked up the phone and had the decency to explain to me what is going on. He is completely unprofessional, and the WBO should impose the ultimate sanction, which is to strip him of his title. It’s one of the most unprofessional things I have seen in my time in boxing. It’s a complete joke, an utter disgrace.
“It’s not the first time this guy has done this and I want the WBO to strip him of the title. It just seems to me Brähmer never wanted this fight.”
