By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns’ former promoter Frank Warren has revealed that Burns didn’t want the unification fight with WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s) when it was offered to him.
We had previously heard that Burns wasn’t interested in facing the talented Broner, but now Burns’ ex-promoter is revealing it to the world in his latest column.
Warren said to thesun.co.uk “He [Burns] was offered the Adrien Broner fight in writing, and he didn’t want that.”