Wayne McCullough today insisted his world title fight against American Willie Jorrin will go ahead despite being refused a licence by the British Boxing Board of Control.
McCullough reacted furiously to the decision, saying: "The British Boxing Board of Control treated me like garbage before so I guess I shouldn't have expected too much."
The Ulsterman has signed to fight WBC super-bantamweight champion Jorrin in Dublin, probably in September, and is expected to apply for a Boxing Union of Ireland licence soon.
McCullough had wanted to return to action in his home town of Belfast.
Simon Block, general secretary of the BBBC, informed McCullough in a telephone call last night that his board of stewards had again refused the former world bantamweight champion permission to fight in Britain.
Las Vegas-based McCullough was prevented from boxing in Belfast last October when a routine MRI scan revealed a cyst on his brain.
But, after seeking numerous alternative opinions and undergoing tests from some of America's leading neurosurgeons, McCullough was passed fit to box.
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