COMMONWEALTH super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor has been offered the chance to fight Ohara Davies at the O2 Arena in July – but the Edinburgh boxer's trainer has described the the £70,000 pay package as "laughable".
Shane McGuigan took to Twitter to mock the financial offer, saying: “Josh would batter Ohara but Teddy [promoter Eddie Hearn] offered peanuts... a laughable offer is normally a sign of someone who doesn't want it.”
Matchroom promoter Hearn responded on social media saying: “£70k not peanuts but we are happy to do it on your show – make the offer.”
Taylor remains unbeaten in nine bouts after retaining his Commonwealth title with a stoppage of Warren Joubert at Meadowbank in March, while Davies has won all 15 of his fights.
Fellow Scot Ricky Burns has already said he is not interested in fighting Taylor and Davies has claimed the 26-year-old is running scared of him.
Davies said: "If he is so confident that he wins, then why wouldn't he take the fight?
"I just think that he's afraid and his management team knows that he's not ready for me right now.
"It doesn't matter how long he waits. When he does fight me, I will knock him out.
"It could be next year, it could be next month, but whenever we do fight he will be getting knocked out, so he might as well take the beating sooner rather than later.
"I'm confident that I would win and once I knock out Taylor, there will be other big fights next year. He is not the only big name in our division now. I don't feel like I need him.
"Before I came into boxing, I thought boxing was a game where there are fighters with a warrior's heart. But since I've been a pro boxer I realise a lot of these people are just scared; they are cowards."
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