British boxer Tyan Booth has been suspended by the British Boxing Board of Control after making inappropriate comments regarding the death of Scott Westgarth.
Westgarth fell ill after a bout in Doncaster on February 24 and subsequently died in hospital at the age of 31 -- prompting an outpouring of tributes.
Booth courted controversy with his reaction to the situation on social media and also made mention of former world middleweight champion Gerald McClellan, who suffered brain damage in a bout with Nigel Benn in 1995.
Booth said on his Twitter account: "Some people would enjoy it if I got killed in a boxing ring like Scott Westgarth. Man down."
Having received multiple complaints over the post, Booth added: "To those complaining about my tweet about the boxer who got killed recently, I'm boxing myself in two weeks and I've spent the past three months drinking cider and not training properly so there's a good chance I'll end up in a wheelchair like Gerald McClellan, so tune in. Man down."
Booth's trainer, Dominic Ingle, responded via his own social media outlet: "The inappropriate comments tweeted recently by Tyan Booth will be dealt with by the Ingle Gym and the BBBofC. He has been asked to remove them."
Booth is a super-middleweight from Nottingham with a record of 12-11-5, 4 KOs who fought Chris Eubank Jr in 2013 and was last seen outpointing Marcus Morrison in June 2017.