BBBC won’t ratify Mcallister’s WBU win

The British Boxing Board of Control has announced that it will not recognise Lee Mcallister as Scotland’s first heavyweight champion. Former Commonwealth lightweight and light-welterweight title holder Mcallister, 35, who came out of retirement in November 2016 after a three-year lay-off, moved up a record seven weight divisions to claim the WBU version of the heavyweight crown by hammering 45-year-old Danny Williams on Saturday.

The “Aberdeen Assassin” floored Williams, who knocked out Mike Tyson in 2004, on three separate occasions at his home city’s Beach Ballroom before the Londoner’s corner threw in the towel in the tenth round.

However, Robert Smith, the general secretary of the BBBC, claims the governing body would never have allowed the contest to take place on health and safety grounds.

“Please note this event was not sanctioned or under the jurisdiction of the British Boxing Board of Control and would not have been approved by the British Boxing Board of Control,” he said. “Neither Lee Mcallister nor Danny Williams is licensed by the British Boxing Board of Control.”