MUMBAI: Indian boxer Vijender Singh’s clash against Briton Lee Markham for the Commonwealth Super Middleweight title has been postponed after the latter pulled out due to injury.
The fight was scheduled for 13 July and would have given Vijender a shot at his third title after having claimed the WBO Asia Pacific and Oriental Super Middleweight titles. Vijender is currently in Manchester.
“Lee has pulled out citing injury. Vijender’s UK promoters – Queensberry Promotions – tried to find an opponent for him to fill in the 13 July slot but that did not work out,” an official from Vijender’s India promoters, IOS Boxing, told PTI.
Markham had the experience of 22 fights, 17 of them wins, under his belt compared to the 10 victorious outings by the former Olympic bronze-medallist Indian.
The fight would have been Vijender’s first in six months since he successfully defended his twin titles in the clash against Ghana’s Ernest Amuzu in Jaipur, PTI reports.
