Frank's At It Again!

Almost three years ago we seen a young and relatively inexperienced Amir Khan get floored by practically unheard of Colombian Breidis Prescott. The boxing media and fans alike were all over Khan like a nasty rash that would take more than a bit of Sudocrem to get rid of. Khan was almost written off as a great amateur who didn’t have the chin to cut it in the big leagues. Ten months, and a little bit! of Frank Warren magic later Amir Khan was WBA World Light-Welterweight Champion. Now, Frank is at again and showing why he regards himself as one of the best promoters in the world.

Olympic Gold Medallist James ‘Chunky’ DeGale(10(8)-1-) is set for a EBU Super-Middleweight Title shot against Polish champion Piotr Wilczewski(29(10)-1-0) just a few months after losing his British title to bitter rival ‘Saint’ George Groves(13(10)-0-0). DeGale did his fair share of ‘smack talk’ in the build up to fight and the vast majority of fans and pundits couldn’t see past ‘Chunky’ for the win, it was not to be losing via majority decision. Now he looks set to put that loss behind him and move on to bigger and better things.

Speaking on the Groves loss DeGale has been quoted as saying he still believes he won the fight and is a postivie person just looking toward the future and focus on fulfilling is goal of becoming World Champion, which he plans on achieving by the end of next year. The Polish champion has only lost one of his 30 fights and is ranked third by the WBO. You can guarantee Wilczewski isn’t going to give up his newly earned crown easily and is going to want to push on for some World Title fights of his own.

This will be make or break for DeGale and Warren knows it. A loss could see the former Olympians career take a downward slide that even a man as a experienced as Frank Warren would struggle to recover from. If DeGale does pick up the win and knocks over the next opponent or two put in front with him then I’m sure the Frank Warren Promotions team will be able to get DeGale the opportunities he is after. St. George in the meantime looks for a challenger for his British title after winning his grudge match with DeGale. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, all is fair in love and boxing. No matter what opportunities are presented to DeGale when it all comes down to it he has to do the business in the ring and I’m sure we will see sooner rather than later we will exactly what ‘Chunky’ is really made of.