The British Boxing Board of Management has ordered an instantaneous rematch between Jeamie TKV and David Adeleye.
TKV’s promoter BOXXER lodged a protest with the board after his controversial stoppage loss to Adeleye in Saturday’s British heavyweight title bout in Manchester.
“Following consideration of the vacant British Championship between David Adeleye and Jeamie Tshikeva, which took place on Saturday, 5th April 2025 in Manchester, the stewards of the board have ordered an immediate rematch,” an announcement learn.
“Purse offers will be released shortly with bids to be received on Wednesday, 14th May 2025.”
TKV was knocked to the canvas within the sixth spherical by Adeleye seconds after referee Ron Kearney had referred to as ‘break’ and pulled his left hand down, leaving his chin uncovered for a left hook to be landed.
As an alternative of pausing the motion to admonish Adeleye for hitting on the break, an motion not permitted in boxing however not essentially a deliberate foul if Adeleye had not heard the referee, Kearney simply issued TKV with a depend and allowed the struggle to proceed.
TKV was damage and solely simply beat that depend earlier than Adeleye attacked once more and, after TKV went down for a second time, he was stopped.
