Having just watched the backstage exchanges between Maloney and Oboh, I'm torn as to whether Oboh did this specifically to prove a point, or whether he was afraid to step in that ring after seeing Oakey at the weighin.

One thought that occurred to me is that he might have been bitter that neither Warren nor Maloney had got him a fight in three years, and so decided to do this in an extremely ill-guided form of revenge.

Maloney was there trying to convince him to fight, and offered him a three-fight deal if he won tonight in front of tv cameras. Personally, I'm leaning towards Oboh finally getting close to that ring and realising that he didn't want to be in there. The sad thing is that the British Light-Heavyweight title has been held up by him for three years, and right on his comeback he quits and gets stripped of it, so no other LH's in the country have been able to hold it.