A PROPOSED meeting between Andrew Selby and Charlie Edwards for the British flyweight title appears to be a non-starter.

Selby’s manager and promoter Jamie Sanigar revealed yesterday that he had received documentation that did not feature Matchroom Boxing’s Edwards.

The British Boxing Board of Control had put the pair forward to negotiate a deal to fight for the British crown, previously held by Kevin Satchell.

Sanigar will re-assess the situation after Selby's bout against Brett Fidoe at the Newport Centre tonight.

“The Championship circular came out as it does every month and Charlie Edwards’ name wasn’t there,” Sanigar told World Boxing News.

“I rang Robert Smith and he said they had received notification that Edwards wanted to pull out of the British title fight with Andrew Selby.

“We are disappointed as it’s a fight we wanted to do. We want Andrew Selby to box for the British title and if it was Charlie Edwards it was a great fight.”

“I understand why there would be reasoning to let it marinade and brew between the two to build, but my thoughts were let’s just crack on and get it done now while it’s there for the prestigious British title. To be fair, if someone had lost it wouldn’t be the end.

“I thought Edwards may be going down a different route when his fight was announced for a WBC belt, but maybe that fight can happen in the future.

“Andrew fights Brett Fidoe, a fighter who has never been stopped so we will plough on with that and see where we go afterwards.

“We want these big fights, you know. We don’t want to be messing around for a year or eighteen months.

“We just want the big fights and that was a big fight, a big domestic fight that we would have happily done on a Matchroom card if it would have had to have been, but obviously Eddie Hearn, MGM and Edwards’ team decided that they didn’t fancy boxing Andrew Selby.”

Selby, 27, only made his pro debut last October and bids for a fourth straight win tonight.