‘That is such a cop-out’ – Frank Warren denies ‘ambushing’ Adam Catterall as he clashes with Simon Jordan

Frank Warren and Simon Jordan have gone head-to-head discussing the promoter's recent viral clash with Adam Catterall.

Jordan's fellow talkSPORT host was berated by the Queensberry boxing boss at an event on Saturday night as they discussed Catterall's criticisms of the heavyweight division and particularly Tyson Fury's career direction in recent times.

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Catterall had branded Fury's bouts preceding his upcoming clash with Oleksandr Usyk as 'warm lager' and Warren was furious with his comments, telling him to 'stop talking b****cks' about the delay in making the undisputed fight.

Fury is currently boycotting talkSPORT interviews and refusing to allow the station to cover his fights due to his interpretation of remarks from the likes of Jordan and Catterall.

On Thursday, Warren joined Jordan's show with Jim White and the trio discussed the incident from the weekend.

It was White who began: "You went head-to-head with Adam Catterall who we love unconditionally...

"You didn't hang back, you were keen to ambush Adam and give him both barrels."

Warren replied: "That's not true, I didn't ambush him. I said to him earlier in the evening, 'I wanna have a chat with you before you go.'

"What happened was it was the end of the evening and I was doing an interview on iFL about the show and he was going, so I said, 'Hang on a minute, I wanna speak to you.'

"He went to walk off and someone said, 'Come over and do the interview,' I didn't ambush him at all.

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"It's all very well - if you're a pundit and you wanna criticise, you're not immune to accepting criticism back if you're in the wrong.

"Have we gotta just accept what you're saying because you unconditionally love him? It's not right."

At this point Jordan added: "No, but there's a balance, Frank. You're right - if people voice an opinion then you're entitled to have an opinion back.

"But the difference, with you being the exception, is if somebody bites back, which is fair, and then a pundit comes back again, what will happen is the pundit will be blackballed.

"He'll be unable to speak to those people again, he'll be shut down and that's what's been the case."

At this point it became clear that Jordan was speaking in reference to Fury's boycott of talkSPORT.

Warren responded: "I'm not shutting anyone down, how other people deal with it, that's up to them."

Jordan said: "But you're fighting a cause on behalf of someone else Frank, you're advancing the position that the observations that have been made about Tyson Fury are unfair.

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"And you also know Frank, you're in a position where you can say precisely what you want because the only person you're accountable to is yourself.

"And Adam is thinking, 'If I go at Queensberry and Tyson Fury now, it's gonna make the situation worse.'"

Warren insisted: "That's nonsense, that is such a cop-out by you, how can you even come out with that?

"So we've gotta just accept what you say and what your pundits say as gospel? When have I ever blackballed anybody?"

The conversation continued for several minutes more, and Warren concluded: "I ain't fallen out with nobody, I'm just telling you how it is."