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Lee McAllister sets sights on TV bouts after Tommy Gilmour link-up
ABERDEEN Assassin Lee McAllister yesterday bulleted his management and went with Tommy Gilmour to find nationwide recognition via the television screen.
The reigning WBU world lightweight and light welterweight champion wants to gun for Ricky Hatton and Amir Khan but needs to smoke them out by heightening his profile.
Gilmour's business tie-up with Barry Hearns' Matchroom, plus their contract with Sky Television, has prompted McAllister, 26, to pitch for a wider audience. Gilmour said:
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"Lee's bigger than Jimmy Calderwood in Aberdeen but he needs a bigger stage.
"I'll bring television to the Exhibition Centre in the Granite City next October and that will be the start of a change of direction for Lee.
"He can be the next Pat Clinton. Paddy came to me in the nineties when he craved the world and I gave him it.
"We were offered the chance to sign this new contract on the pitch at Pittodrie at half-time during Saturday's game with Inverness Caley Thistle but it's time for Lee to be global and not just Grampian."
McAllister, with only one defeat in 28 professional fights, needs no invitation to take centre stage. His life already reads like a book, having cheated death in a motorcycle accident in Greece five years ago. Daily Record |
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