Michael Marley’s Testosterone Free Boxing Notebook: You don’t know, Jack. Badou Jack, that is aka Badou “The Ripper” Jack, unbeaten (10-0, eight KOs) light heavyweight prospect of Swedish and Gambian origin and who was “discovered” in Sweden by two time former world heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs. Jack, promoted by Lou DiBella and Neon Leon Margules, tried to shed his managers, father-son duo of Milton and Steven Heid, by going to bankruptcy court in Las Vegas. Word is the court refused to cancel the fighter’s managerial deal and he fights on with the Heids as his managers. I see that Jack is fighting at Texas Station in Vegas Friday night. Will he be playing Heid and seek with his managers, New York businessmen who treat fighters like beloved family members? The Heids deserve better… Only reason Frank Warren is bringing in the Luxembourg Boxing Federation to oversee Dereck Chisora-David Haye grudge fight in London July 14 is because the Outer Mongolia Boxing Board is on holiday then. Could the Mongolian horde be celebrating Bastille Day, an appropriate night for the two thuggish UK heavyweights. I guess they could not hold Chisora-Haye at the Crystal Palace because of the glassing that erupted between Toemaker Haye and DelBoy in Munich… I’m not against suspensions and other penalties for boxers caught drug cheating but, if Lamont Peterson had been nabbed by WADA rather than new group VADA, he would be barred from making a living for two years. I don’t think that punishment fits the alleged crime, I see it as excessive. Ban a fighter for 12 months tops, I say. Let’s not forget the limitede shelf life of any fighter as very few remain preserved like Bernard Hopkins… Look for Top Rank to drop a tortious interference lawsuit on Floyd Mayweather any second now in relation to Cuban clouter Yuriorkis Gamboa. Hey, it’s just spare change for “Money”…
