FRANK WARREN once had a ‘world’ champion he didn’t know what to do with. His joy at seeing Dennis Andries win the WBC light-heavyweight belt was soon replaced by the problem of what to do with him next.
Andries had personally sold only four tickets for his title-winning effort against JB Williamson, fought out in front of 1,000 empty seats at the 2,500-capacity Picketts Lock Stadium in Edmonton in April 1986.
Warren, who had previously lost money promoting Andries’ British title defeat to Tom Collins in 1982, knew a defence against mandatory challenger Eddie Davis wasn’t going to be lucrative either.
Perhaps there was another option.
Warren also had Tony Sibson on his books and he had promised him a title shot. One of Britain’s most popular fighters at the time, ‘Sibbo’ was a real gunslinger, with
