Boxing chiefs will withhold Kash Ali's purse after he was disqualified for biting his opponent.
Birmingham heavyweight Ali was thrown out of his fight against David Price in Liverpool on Saturday night after repeatedly trying to take a chunk out of him.
The bout had been an ugly affair with Ali, who went into it with an unbeaten record from 15 fights, having earlier docked a point for biting Price's shoulder before the fight was stopped when he tried to do the same thing on his belly.
His £20,000 fee will now be withheld while the British Boxing Board of Control stages an investigation.
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Ali will be called before a hearing and he is expected to face a hefty fine and a ban from the sport.
The 27-year-old left clear bite marks on Beijing Olympics bronze medallist Price after the pair tumbled to the canvas in the fifth.
Referee Mark Lyson rightly disqualified him after the local fighter roared, ‘He’s biting me’.
Price had earlier rocked Ali in the third and, after coming through a scare earlier in the fifth, hurt his man again with a big right but didn’t get the chance to finish him off.
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Ali was pelted with drinks from the angry crowd inside the M&S Bank Arena as security rushed him away.
In the bill's main event, Liam Smith made light work of Sam Eggington as the former world light-middleweight champion stopped him in the fifth.
Smith begged referee Bob Williams to stop the fight as Eggington’s vision was impaired by grotesque swelling around his right eye.
“I wanted it stopped because I respect Sam and I didn’t want anything bad to happen if he got hit with a shot that he couldn’t see coming,” said the Liverpool fighter.
Smith said his perfect fight before the end of 2019 would be Kell Brook because it is “a big fight for Britain and a big-money fight.”
