Frank Warren (promoter)
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Frank Warren
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28 February 1952 Islington, London |
| Residence | Hertfordshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Boxing promoter |
Frank Warren (born 28 February 1952 in Islington, London) is an English boxing manager and promoter.
The son of a bookmaker, Warren trained as a solicitor's clerk with J Tickle & Co on Southampton Row in London.
Warren was approached by his second-cousin Lenny McLean who having just lost a fight and wanting a rematch, could not find a promoter. Warren agreed to become an unlicensed promoter, getting McLean a trainer who had worked with Chris Finnegan, and made the rematch at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park.
Warren's first licensed show was held at the Bloomsbury Crest Hotel, in London in 1980, promoting two unknown United States heavyweights. However, although he had arranged TV coverage, he was blocked from broadcasting the fight by the British Boxing Board of Control rules preventing first-time from televising their first fights. However Warren was later given his first TV date with the BBC in a British light welterwight fight between London's champion Clinton McKenzie and Coventry contender Steve Early.
Warren soon became a leading figure in British boxing, and since has managed some of Britain's best boxers of the last twenty five years, including 'Prince' Naseem Hamed, Nigel Benn, Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton, Dereck Chisora, Nicky Piper and Amir Khan.
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