Warren: I will apply for licence for Tyson
PROMOTER Frank Warren has revealed that he will be applying for Tyson Fury’s boxing licence on his behalf.
Warren has responded after British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith said they were ‘nowhere near’ granting Fury a licence for his expected return to the ring.
Smith had said: “We have a number of reports already in from when he was suspended. We will need up-todate ones and then pass them on to our doctors and consultants. They will tell me if they need more but at present we are nowhere near that.
“I have spoken to Mick Hennessy, advising he’d like to get on with this as soon as possible and he did say he’d come back to me but unfortunately at this time he hasn’t.
“Tyson has a licence with us that has been suspended. Until that is lifted, we really can’t move on. If he is to fight here under someone else’s delighted to have Tyson Fury back. I’ll be applying for the reinstatement of his BBBofC licence on his behalf.
“He is the best heavyweight in the world and he is coming to recapture the belts he never lost in the ring, stating in April.”
Fury hasn’t fought since defeating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015, but was recently given the green light to return to the ring after his case with UK Anti-Doping finally came to an end.