One show on, one off
IT was a busy old Wednesday at The Week towers with newslines flooding in from across the world. In London, it was confirmed there would be a Boxxer show on Sky Sports despite the withdrawal of Dan Azeez from the headline fight with Joshua Buatsi.
Instead the four-fight show would go on at York Hall with Isaac Chamberlain’s challenge for Mikael Lawal’s British and Commonwealth cruiserweight titles topping the bill. Azeez even went on Sky Sports News to deny suggestions that the injury was a fake one and that the show had been pulled due to poor ticket sales. “That has been upsetting,” he said. “For someone of my integrity, I would never ever stage an injury.”
In America, after weeks of rumours, it was officially confirmed that Showtime would be shutting up their boxing shop after 37
