Rotherham promoter's boxing coup
BOXING promoter Dave Coldwell has pulled off his biggest coup yet by winning the right to stage the biggest domestic fight for two decades.
And the Rotherham fight supremo had to smash purse bid record for a British Super-Middleweight Championship shootout, with London arch-enemies James DeGale and George Groves set to square up to each other in a £400,000 fight.
It’s the biggest move yet by the fast-rising Coldwell, who runs his local operation from a town centre gym and is also head of boxing with the Hayemaker organisation. His bid dumped Frank Warren’s £320,000 out of the reckoning as well as the £325,000 tabled by Hayemaker colleague Adam Booth.
Said Coldwell: “I’m delighted to have won the purse bid for a fight which everyone wants to see."
He hopes to finalise the details inside the next fortnight.