Nasser Al Harbi's intriguing-looking eight-rounder with undefeated Dean Byrne has been shelved.
The unbeaten Birmingham light-middleweight, 11-0 (1), was set to swap leather with the globe-trotting Dubliner on Saturday (June 9) on a bill topped by a 12-round dispute between Capital puncher Kevin Mitchell and Manchester's former British and European lightweight boss John Murray.
But the Frank Warren-promoted card at the ExCel Arena was scrapped yesterday after Mitchell, who would have been fighting for the first time since being swatted aside with ease by Aussie warmonger Michael Katsidis last year, came down with a viral infection.
(For the record, the Mitchell-Murray fight has now been re-scheduled for the huge show at Liverpool's Echo Arena on July 16).
Al Harbi, though, has less to be happy about. He's been told his bout with 26-year-old ex-Freddie Roach-trained Byrne, 14-0 (6), will be not be taking place in the immediate future. That's a shame. The fight, pitching two unbeaten, talented and hungry young prospects vying for a deal with promoter Warren, looked a show-stealing scrap in the making.
And Saturday's bout would have been 22-year-old Nasser's first contest of 2011 - having been inactive since travelling to Dubai to snatch the vacant WBC Asia Council Continental 10st 7lbs title in December, when he took of Thailand's Dennapa Bigshotcamp in seven rounds.
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