Lewis accused of treating Maloney like a ‘slave’

Frank Maloney has accused Lennox Lewis of treating him like a slave after the former undisputed heavyweight world champion sacked…

Frank Maloney has accused Lennox Lewis of treating him like a slave after the former undisputed heavyweight world champion sacked him as manager just 10 days before a world title rematch with Hasim Rahman in Las Vegas.

The duo split following an 11-year association after Maloney refused to sign a new contract.

Maloney told The Sunnewspaper: "On Friday of last week I had a telephone conference call with Lennox's business manager Adrian Ogun and a new member of the team, Jerome Anderson.

"Anderson asked me to sign a new contract that included a confidentiality clause - this was in effect a slave-labour contract.

"I told them both that obviously Lennox did not want a boxing manager."

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