Froch test for Board

THE British Boxing Board of Control, one of the weakest-willed of sports governing bodies, will be under pressure at upcoming hearings to take strong action against former WBC supermiddleweight champion Carl Froch as well as to impose a lengthy ban on disgraced heavyweight Dereck Chisora after his Munich antics.

Froch admitted on BBC Radio Nottingham that he had deliberately extended his 2005 Commonwealth title defence against Ruben Groenewald into a fifth round so that his brothers and friends could benefit from bets and had pulled that scam ‘on more than one occasion’.

Such a blatant fight-fixing admission comes at a time when there is huge scrutiny around all gambling at the 2012 Olympics, especially in the wake of three Pakistan cricketers being jailed for spot betting. LLONDON

2012, under Government pressure for more transparency over their ticketing process, have issued a strict code of conduct to their Authorised Ticket Resellers. Some 80 agents from 50 ATRS representing over 100 countries attended a two-day summit with LOCOG and the police at which they were warned of serious repercussions for any wrongdoing around the selling of tickets supplied to National Olympic Committees. Representatives of Ipswich owner and sports hospitality tycoon Marcus Evans, who is the chosen ATR for Ireland, Malta and Greece, attended. Evans’s six-figure unofficial Olympic corporate hospitality publicity, which makes no mention of tickets, worried LOCOG but they still approved his ATR appointments.

c.sale@dailymail.co.uk and twitter.com/charliesale