Don’t let Hearn vs White distract you – Frank Warren is a true heavyweight promoter

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. It is a long way from Joe Bugner fighting in a hotel banquet suite in 1982 to the heavyweight championship of the world on Saturday night at the O2. Frank Warren has made that journey with heavyweights in just about every size and shape and condition; Saturday is the third time he has made the journey to a heavyweight world-title fight this year, which is a statistic that would have been considered pure fantasy back in the Eighties.