Frank Warren has claimed that one of his former boxers still owes him £40, 000 and that he should now pay it back out of his latest winning purse.

Warren has been in the boxing game since his first licensed show in 1980 and has since gone on to be one of the dominant figures in the sport.

He has promoted the likes of ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed, Nigel Benn, Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton, Derek Chisora and Amir Khan, and in December Warren’s man Tyson Fury takes on Anthony. Joshua in what will be one of the biggest fights the UK has ever seen.

Ahead of that and speaking to talkSPORT Boxing, Warren was asked his views on his former fighter Denzel Bentley’s latest win after he left Queensberry Promotions, and he dropped the bombshell that the London fighter owes him a considerable amount of money,

“He was with us, and that was it and he’s gone. We done brilliantly for him. He got beaten by Felix Cash; he got knocked out. Nathan Heaney beat him. I got him a world title against Janibek Alimkhanuly; he got beat in that, we got him an interim world title; he won that then we got it upgraded he became full champion.

“The fight went to purse bids; people bid 200 grand for it. There were no other bidders. And as you know, Zuffa are in there and they’re throwing money around on some fighters and he’s won it and that’s it.

“If he goes on and does anything good luck to him. We’re past that; be handy if he pays me back the 40 grand he owes me with all that money he’s just earned.”

Bentley made his Zuffa Boxing debut at the Copper Box Arena on Saturday when he beat Shane Mosley Jr via unanimous decision over 10 rounds.

It was his first fight since April, when he beat Endry Saavedra and became WBO interim middleweight champion, but was stripped last month despite being promised a voluntary defence.