By Sean McDaniel: Former world heavyweight champion and HBO analyst Lennox Lewis doesn’t like the idea of David Haye and Dereck Chisora circumventing the British Boxing Board of Control and going to the Luxembourg Boxing Federation to get their July 14th clash at Upton Park sanctioned.

Lewis feels that Chisora should wait until the BBBofC are willing to give him back his license, which was taken away from him because of Chisora’s behavior before and after his loss to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko last February.

Lewis told the Daily Mail “Should they [Chisora and Haye] be allowed to fight? Sure, but only when the time is right, when the disciplinary process has run it’s course…to go around their [BBBofC] jurisdiction is in poor taste.”

Lewis believes that the British Boxing Board of Control was in the fight for taking away Chisora’s license, and thinks he should wait it out. The problem is the BBBofC gave Chisora an definite suspension without an end date, so it’s kind of a situation where if Chisora were to wait it out like Lewis feels he should, Chisora could in theory end up waiting forever and still not get his license back.

The BBBofC really should have given Chisora number to work with, because by not giving him an actual date for when the suspension is ending, they pretty much put him in a desparate situation where he felt he needed to look for another alternative to keep his career moving. It’s like when you’ve been suspended on your job. You can sit and wait or you can move on like Chisora did, and you can’t blame him for not wanting to have his boxing career permanently wrecked by sitting idle for too long of a time. The BBBofC could have done this better by giving an actual date for when the suspension ended, but they didn’t, so you can’t blame Chisora for moving on.

As Wladimir Klitschko once said, “Boxing is global,” so it doesn’t make sense to let one jurisdiction to control you when you have opportunities with other sanctioning organizations.