CORNWALL, Ontario – Tony Luis announced on his Facebook page that his fight in Australia against George Kambosos Jr., scheduled to take place on April 14, has been cancelled.
“Im extremely disappointed to announce that my fight in Australia has been canceled (sic),” Luis wrote on his Facebook Page. “We ran into some red tape shenanigans with regards to pre-fight medicals. I was in the process of completing all my medicals and was going to provide it all by the end of this week, 3 weeks before fight time. Apparently this was not good enough and we were told we missed a “deadline” which was never specified in the contract.”
Kambosos Jr. is currently undefeated and is ranked No. 6 by the World Boxing Association (WBA). Luis would have been challenging for Kambosos’ WBA Oceania championship while defending his own North American Boxing Association (NABA) lightweight championship.
Neither Toronto based Liveco Boxing or Sydney based Whack Promotions, who were co-promoting the event, have made statements about the cancellation.
Luis stated that both sides tried to work to make the fight happen, but ultimately could not come to an agreement.
“We were then told they’d have to postpone the fight to a date that would require a whole new training camp,” he said. I refuse to wait that long over some bureaucratic nonsense. So we proposed to do the fight in Canada and offered Kambozo a career high payday. His people refused.”
Luis also stated that he has been harassed on social media about the fight, but that he would have preferred to settle this in the ring.
“In the meantime I have received threatening private messages for a week from random Australians (probably Kambozo himself) hiding behind fake names,” Luis alleged. “I respect this sport and would much prefer to war with him in the ring, not behind a keyboard. But his people clearly have other plans. My team is working hard to get me back in the ring very soon. We won’t dwell, we move forward.”
