Okolie signs with Queensberry ahead of heavyweight debut
Lawrence Okolie was last seen stopping Lukasz Rozanski in May
Former cruiserweight and “bridgerweight” champion Lawrence Okolie has joined forces with Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions ahead of his planned move to heavyweight.
“There is only one place,” insisted Okolie on his new heavyweight home. “If you are a heavyweight in Britain or the world, it is the Warrens. They’ve got the best up and coming heavyweights, the best current heavyweights and the best who are on their way out.
“So it is the place to be, for me.
“It has gone through different phases in my career and I needed to find a home that would cater for this next period, right to the end of my career, which is the heavyweight dream of being a three-weight world champion.
“I am a natural for the weight, right from being on the GB team. I have been struggling with making weight but, when you have success, you keep on pushing it. I even had to come down to make bridgerweight, so I knew it was time to go up.”
As others have pointed out, Queensberry’s stout heavyweight roster makes this a solid move on paper. Joseph Parker, Zhilei Zhang, Fabio Wardley, and Daniel Dubois could all make for interesting fights, inasmuch as you can call any Okolie (20-1, 15 KO) fight “interesting.”