Frank Warren has slammed Boxxer’s decision to launch their new venture with the BBC on the same night that Fabio Wardley takes on Joseph Parker.

Warren’s Queensberry Promotions announced the heavyweight clash between Wardley and Parker, who both hold interim versions of the world title, early last month with the pair set to meet on October 25 at London’s o2 Arena.

However, Boxxer have since confirmed that the British heavyweight title fight between Frazer Clarke and Jeamie TKV in Derby will take place on the same night.

It will be the debut show of Boxxer’s new deal with BBC, with the main event set to take place live and free-to-air on BBC Two between 8 and 10pm on the 25th. Meanwhile, Wardley and Parker will fight on DAZN.

Now Warren has suggested that the decision to make the two heavyweight fight nights clash on the same date is disrespectful to boxing.

“What annoys me most is that they wouldn’t do it with football or with rugby,” Warren told The Ring.

“They just wouldn’t do it but that's how people treat boxing. That’s why we get annoyed with networks. And when you consider it’s the public broadcaster with the reach they’ve got, I just don’t think it’s correct.

“There’s no respect for the fans, no respect for the sport at all. They just don’t care. I think it’s good that they are back in the sport but work with the sport, not against the sport.

“You’re back in but the first thing you’re doing is creating a problem. That’s not what this should be about.”

October 25 will be the first live professional boxing shown on the BBC for more than two decades and kicks off their new venture with Boxxer.

There has been no official confirmation of the length of the deal, or how many guaranteed fight nights there will be per year, but Warren is adamant they could have found a date which would not clash with DAZN’s boxing output.

“It’s just disappointing that we’ve got a clash,” he added. “We thought we had done away with those days.

“And when you look at it, they’ve allegedly done a four-show deal so you’ve got 48 weekends of the year that you could have put it on. Instead they’ve clashed with the show we are putting on, which is a pain in the backside.

“But having said that, we have the best show. We have the best fighters, we have the winners, the guys who are on our show are the winners. Wardley knocked Clarke out.

“Our is also the most significant fight. It’s for the interim title so Oleksandr Usyk has to fight the winner and if he doesn’t do that he will vacate and the winner on October 25 becomes world champion.”