There’s nonetheless time to resolve the continuing rounds dispute forward of Ben Whittaker’s rematch with Liam Cameron, says the British Boxing Board of Management.
Whittaker will struggle Cameron in a extremely anticipated light-heavyweight rematch on Sunday April 20, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
They first met in October when Olympic silver medallist Whittaker was unable to proceed, because of harm, after each fighters fell excessive rope and out of the ring within the fifth spherical.
A technical resolution then noticed the bout end as a draw.
That controversial ending nevertheless prompted solutions from Cameron that Whittaker ‘stop’, fuelling a fiery build-up forward of Sunday’s conflict on the bp pulse LIVE enviornment in Birmingham.
Days away from the rematch, the rival camps are locked in a dispute over whether or not the bout might be contested over 10 or 12 rounds.
However the British Boxing Board of Management has mentioned there may be nonetheless time to resolve this subject earlier than Sunday’s struggle.
Robert Smith, the final secretary of the BBBoC, advised Sky Sports activities: “It’s a contract subject.
“There must be no want [for the Board] to intervene. Nonetheless time to resolve, which I am certain it is going to be.”
‘Judgement day is April 20’
Whittaker and Cameron are because of face one another at a press convention on Friday earlier than Sunday’s contest. Their disagreement has been a characteristic of their pre-fight engagements.
“It obtained onerous in there and when it will get onerous, you need a means out,” Cameron beforehand mentioned of Whittaker. “Once you’re in ache and the struggle’s not going your means, he wished out of there.
“He wished no half [of it].”
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Talking on Toe2Toe, Matthew Macklin, Barry Jones and Wayne Elcock talk about how Ben Whittaker would possibly strategy his rematch with Liam Cameron
Whittaker is a flashy fighter when he bins, famend for his showboating. However Cameron claimed he had been chastened by their first struggle.
“He is modified a bit. He wasn’t the identical particular person simply then [on the Gloves Are Off]. Fairly humbled, good man. Are available with a distinct strategy. I like that,” Cameron advised Sky Sports activities Information.
“I used to be there to get beat. He was there to point out what he was product of… I put a cease to it.”
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Ben Whittaker says he has loved life out of the limelight and has perfected higher methods to fall out of the ring for his rematch with Liam Cameron
Whittaker responded: “If he desires to go together with that [quitting accusation] it is nice, extra gasoline to the fireplace.”
He’s although decided to settle the rating. “It was like a scene out of WWE,” Whittaker advised Sky Sports activities Information. “It is boxing. These items will not be written and we get to run it again.
“Fortunately sufficient judgement day is April 20.”
He added: “It was my worst model and his greatest model. After I flip up on April 20 you will note my greatest model.
“A draw is just not what you need, it is a loss in my eyes, trying to proper the mistaken actually and I am excited to try this.”
Watch Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron 2 on Sunday April 20, dwell on Sky Sports activities
