Frank Warren and Simon Jordan got into a disagreement live on talkSPORT over a key moment from the first Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk fight.
Fury gets the opportunity to exact revenge against Uysk in Saudi Arabia on December 21 after the Ukrainian inflicted a first professional defeat on him back in May.
Warren has been involved in boxing for nearly 50 years, and spoke to White and Jordan on talkSPORT about his client’s upcoming bout.
“I think he’s really determined but it’s pride more than anything,” Warren said.
“I don’t think it’s even the titles or the three belts on the line. He wants to avenge that he felt he won the fight.
“…I thought he just nicked it, but it was a very close fight, irrespective of, I’m not going to get into arguments.
“You know, somebody thinks this, somebody thinks that, it was a close fight.
“It was a split decision and the ninth round – had that ninth round not happened on two judges cards – he would have been the winner.”
Usyk dropped Fury in the ninth round en route to his split-decision victory in the pair’s bid to unite all four heavyweight belts.
In doing so, ‘The Cat’ became the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
Jordan hit back at Warren with a different opinion on that crucial ninth round, however.
“Well the ref helped him out Frank in that ninth round didn’t he?” Jordan said in response to Warren’s comments.
“Because I think he enabled Tyson to get some recovery time in because Usyk would have stopped him.
“My recollection of the fight, and I might be wrong, so I might stand to be corrected… my recollection of the fight is the referee got in the way of Usyk stopping him – not the bell getting in the way of stopping him.”
Warren disagreed with Jordan’s response, claiming that the referee on the night, Mark Nelson, was very experienced.
Former Commonwealth Games silver medallist Spencer Oliver was in studio and chimed in on the conversation.
“It was one of those that he was on his way down at the time and the referee jumped in,” Oliver said.
“But then I think the referee, it was one of those where a referee makes a decision and he’s thinking Tyson Fury‘s going down but he bounced off the rope and didn’t actually touch down.”
Warren responded by saying that Fury was never actually knocked down.
“The only way you get counted is if both your gloves touch,” he said.
“If your gloves touch the floor, that’s when the referee starts counting and his gloves never touch the floor.
“And more importantly, we’ve seen Tyson in a few fights where he’s gone down his recuperative powers and he comes back.”
Jordan replied: “But the referee getting in the way of that Frank, possibly stops Tyson from touching down now.”
While Oliver added: “I think the referee thought he was going, he was going down, but the bottom rope saved him from going down.”
