JAMIE Cox has missed out on a chance to fight for a world title according to his promoter Frank Warren.

Warren has said that he tried to get the Swindon southpaw a fight with WBA interim world middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr, but got no response.

Since the 29-year-old returned to the Warren stable, Cox has become the WBO European super-middleweight champion with his second first-round stoppage of 2015 and is now ranked eighth by the organisation in the 168lb division.

However, Warren says that it is becoming difficult to match the 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist up following a string of impressive sparring displays.

Speaking to iFL TV, Warren said: “I offered Chris Eubank Jr the (Jamie Cox) fight but they never got back to us.

“I was very surprised that (Irish middleweight) Spike (Gary) O’Sullivan turned it down.

“No-one wants to fight Jamie Cox. I think (the reason is) because he has been sparring quite a few people and all the reports that are coming out of sparring is how well he is doing and how he is controlling it.

“I think as a result of that, people don’t want to up and fight.”

Cox was meant to be fighting on Saturday, September 26 to defend his WBO European belt, but he has been forced to postpone that contest and says that he will now put that title on the line in Manchester on October 10.