Boxing: I WON'T THROW TOWEL IN ON SCOTS; EXCLUSIVE Frank: I don't hold Harrison grudge BOXING SPECIAL...

Byline: By Chris Roberts 

FRANK MALONEY last night insisted his break-up with Scott Harrison won't stop him building another Scottish world champ.

The Cockney manager and promoter fell out of love with the country when he was unceremoniously ditched by the troubled former featherweight king.

But he went on to have the last laugh when he masterminded the defeat of Scotland's big hopes Kevin Anderson and Ricky Burns.

Maloney, famed for wearing a kilt during Harrison's crusade for global domination, left Kirkcaldy fans heartbroken on Friday when Ali Nuumbembe snatched the Commonwealth welterweight title from their local hero Anderson.

But Maloney has vowed to get the Scottish public back on his side by giving them another world champion to be proud of.

Maloney said: "I like coming to Scotland because it's a great place for boxing and other sports. I like working up here and my aim is to find another Scottish fighter to build into a world champion.

"What happened with Scott could have happened to anyone. I have put all that behind me and I'm a very happy man."

However, Maloney will upset Anderson and his manager Tommy Gilmour by refusing them a rematch.

Gilmour and Anderson were furious when one of the judges gave Nuumbembe the fight by four points with the other two each putting the Fifer a point in front.

But Maloney thinks another showdown with Anderson would be a backward step for the Namibian.

Maloney said: "I'm not going to offer them a rematch. Ali was the mandatory challenger and he won the title fair and square. We'll look at it and see what's the best financial offer but we are going forward now.

"Since Friday night we have had offers to fight Neil Sinclair and Young Muttley but we would like to fight Matthew Hatton in Manchester."

Maloney accused someone in Anderson's camp of using underhand tactics to try to rattle his man before the clash.

He claimed Nuumbembe's dressing room was so cold he had to abandon it, wrap himself up in coats and blankets and camp in front of a heater.

Maloney said: "It's too cold in Fife and we are not going back there. I'm not used to that kind of weather so you can imagine how my African fighter felt.

When we got there it was freezing in the dressing room and I'm sure there was a bit of gamesmanship going on.

"We were able to counteract it by moving to the other side of the building and getting a heater in."

Gilmour has urged the British Boxing Board of Control to sort out their judges andMaloney agreed there was little in the fight. He said: "Kevin is a very good fighter and will rise again. I had my man winning but it depends how you were scoring the encounter.

"If you were scoring it on power punches that suited Kevin but if it was on skill Ali was the man.

"I had him two rounds up at the end but if it had gone the other way you couldn't have moaned.

"You could see where the judges were coming from." Anderson will put his British title on the line against Eamonn McGee in May.

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LOOKING FOR NUU SCOTT: Maloney was ditched by Harrison, below right, but found success with Nuumbembe, main pic, who defeated Anderson, below