Mike Jones’s team turns down Frank Warren offer
No, but thanks anyway.
Upcoming prospect Mike Jones (22-0, 18 KOs) has turned down an offer by big-time British promoter Frank Warren to fight Kell Brook (22-0, 15 KOs) for the interim WBO welterweight title in December.
Warren recently got in touch with Top Rank chief Bob Arum and Jones’s immediate promoter Russell Peltz about the fight, but Jones’s team said that they will instead move forward with a bout against Jesus
Soto Karass on the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito November 13 undercard.
According to Jones’s team, the 13 November event, which will be live on HBO pay-per-view, was too attractive a prospect to turn down even if it meant sacrificing an interim title shot.
At the same time Peltz said he would reconsider if Warren was willing to put finances on the table that are “through the ceiling.”
In summary of the events, Peltz said: “I sent [Top Rank Promotions Vice President] Carl Moretti an e-mail today and said, 'Listen, we're fighting in Dallas, because I could have made this fight on my own,
and they've been calling me on this fight [with Brook] for a month.”
Then he said publicly: "I mean, it would have made sense at the time [a fight with Brook], but with a chance to fight in Dallas, it doesn't really make sense. Unless the finances are through the ceiling
for a fight with Brook, we're fighting in Dallas. I mean, how much through the ceiling are they going to be?"
Jones hails from Philadelphia and is expected to become a top-rated prospect in the welterweight division. Under current management, he has accrued the NABA welterweight title as well as the WBO NABA
title, which he won by defeating Hector Munoz in April.
His upcoming opponent has yet to be announced.
Tags: