Frank Warren has voiced his anger at Ryan Rhodes' withdrawal from his planned European Light Middleweight title defense against Lukas Koncency on September 18th. Rhodes' withdrawal has resulted in him being stripped of the European title and Matthew Hall will now take his place. Warren said " I won the Rhodes and Barker fights by submitting the biggest purse bids, so it seems pretty weird that they should both pull out. I'm told Rhodes had only done about a week in the gym training for the fight and has also been on holiday. When boxers withdraw like this of course it hits the promotion. It's just not fair on fight fans. But the show goes on ".


How true this is is hard to say, but I was thinking this the other day bit of a coincidence that the two fighters that have withdrawn from this bill is the two fighters that Warren is not a promoter to and just won the purse bids?

If true Very bad on Rhodes is part but it is Frank Warren so wouldn't take this as gospel.