forlorn fighter is devastated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHonestly, the kid\u2019s the most polite, loveliest human being you\u2019ll ever meet,\u201d Coldwell said. \u201cAnd he was polite with them, but he got in the changing rooms, and he just cried his eyes out. His career, he\u2019s not earned any money out of the game. He\u2019s not had the big, big fights. His career\u2019s not gone how it should have done for him, and this was his ticket to get the big money, to get the belt, so that he\u2019s got something to bargain with, get in with the big names. Whenever they talk about your light heavyweights, your Yarde\u2019s, Buatsis, and all the big, exciting domestic light-heavyweight weight fighters that we\u2019ve got, nobody ever mentions Lerrone\u2019s name. This was his ticket to get that, to get into that mix, to get mentioned to, get the big fights, get the fans fights, and fucking make some money for his family. He\u2019s got two kids, and he\u2019s made nothing out of the game and this was his ticket and they fucking robbed him, and he just sobbed his heart out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey [leading fighters] didn\u2019t want to fight him before that, and now he\u2019s gone and performed like that, they\u2019re definitely not going to fight him, and it\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about the possibility of the rematch, Coldwell was coldly realistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cRamirez, in the ring, straight away, as soon as he spoke to me in the ring, he got my hand, he put his head towards me, and he said, \u2018I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry, Richards won the fight,\u2019 and then he apologised again. That\u2019s Ramirez. I\u2019ve got all the credit in the world for the kid, because he actually said those words to me. Russ Anber his own corner, they all knew, they all said that, that Lerrone won the fight, but he ain\u2019t going to get a rematch out here, and even if he does, right, let\u2019s be honest, he won the fight so clear, and they still rob you, how does he win it even cleaner, without knocking him out, so literally, you\u2019ve got to come over and knock him out. It\u2019s just fucking this part of the sport is\u2026 It\u2019s just dog shit. It ruins kids\u2019 families. He\u2019s what, 32, 33, he\u2019s been in the game since he was a kid, this is what it\u2019s about, but he\u2019s got kids himself, it\u2019s about his family, it\u2019s about changing people\u2019s lives, that\u2019s what we talk about, this sport does it, changes people\u2019s lives, for good, for better, but when they\u2019re robbing people like this, it\u2019s what it does to their life going forward. There\u2019s a massive difference financially.\u201d<\/p>\n
The social media fallout has been extreme and while there is some comfort in the for Team Richards, it doesn\u2019t change or fix anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has meant a lot, it has meant a lot, but people are only saying it as they see it, and that\u2019s how they always should do it,\u201d Coldwell added. \u201cIt is great that we see that, but it doesn’t change anything, though, as well, does it? It\u2019s his ticket to the big fights, the big, big names and big, big prizes that\u2019s been ripped up in front of him. That\u2019s what it is, You need something where somebody sees that and goes, \u2018Oh, do you know what, fucking hell, let\u2019s right a wrong and give him another opportunity,\u2019 but how often is that happening. When you\u2019ve got somebody that\u2019s got the ability that Lerrone\u2019s got, where he\u2019s got the ability to beat them all out there, who\u2019s gonna voluntarily give him a fucking opportunity? I hope fans get behind him and a promoter does and he\u2019ll land something big, because it deserves it, and even how he reacted afterwards, just, he\u2019s just so polite and just thanking everyone for opportunity and everything, he\u2019s just a nice kid and you just want good things happening to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Coldwell has spoken of the heartbreak in the dressing room after Lerrone Richards lost to Ramirez in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,212141,178370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-dave-coldwell","tag-lerrone-richards","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}