Vijender's seventh and eighth fights, both titles clashes in New Delhi last year, had no backing from Frank Warren’s firm. The boxer, thus, will now solely be handled by IOS Boxing Promotions.
After a seemingly unstoppable start, Vijender Singh has hit the first roadblock in his nascent professional boxing career. The WBO Super Middleweight Asia Pacific champion – who has an 8-0 win-loss record in his pro career so far – on Thursday terminated the contract with his global promoters, Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, due to lack of fights and failed monetary negotiations.The three-year contract, which began in September 2015, has come to an abrupt end with Vijender and his Indian promoters, IOS Boxing Promotions, accusing Queensberry Promotions of failing to meet their commitments towards the Indian boxer after his initial six fights in the UK.
Vijender's seventh and eighth fights, both titles clashes in New Delhi last year, had no backing from Frank Warren’s firm. The boxer, thus, will now solely be handled by IOS Boxing Promotions.
“This was long in the pipeline,” Neerav Tomar, promoter of IOS Boxing, said. “Since the time the UK fights got over, and that was more than a year back, there were commitments by Queensberry to co-promote the shows in India with IOS. It never happened. Both the shows in Delhi, July and December, were promoted solely by IOS.”
The contract had a clause of six fights every year, which was fulfilled by Queensberry only in its first year. Thereon, the financial obligations were to be re-negotiated for the two title fights in India but the parties failed to reach a consensus.
“After those six fights, the prize purses was supposed to be re-negotiated for any title fight. Queensberry didn't do that and eventually, we had to pull off the show on our own,” Tomar said.
Vijender, who had a booming start to his pro boxing career in October 2015 but has since lost steam having last entered the ring in December 2016, was left frustrated by the no-show.
“There were a lot of things that Queensberry Promotions had committed to me as part of their contractual obligations, but failed to deliver. After six fights in the first year, I had only two thereafter. That's just not acceptable to me,” Vijender said.
The 31-year-old, for now, will continue to train with his current British trainer, Lee Beard, though Tomar said they are looking out for trainers in the US.
Vijender's next fight is scheduled in Mumbai in July, and Tomar said they will seek global promoters only on a fight-to-fight basis. “Vijender and I will work with promotions in India and partner with other top global promoters, maybe from the US, on a case-to-case basis. Instead of having one single promoter tag along, we'll take it fight by fight,” Tomar said.
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